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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:54:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Are You Ignoring the Cries of Your Website?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/95833</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/95833</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:54:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/95833</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My rant about crying children on airplanes and how it relates to website marketing!<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[7 Speculations On What Lisa Barone Will Be Doing Next]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/74547</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/74547</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:45:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/74547</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Blogosphere and Twitterverse are all abuzz with the news of Lisa Barone's impending departure as head blogger over at BruceClay.com and there's lots of speculation as to what her next move might be. She said she'd be moving back to the East Coast where she is originally from.Here are my top 7 guesses...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Measuring Success Beyond the Search Engines: Using Referral Data in Google Analytics]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/72010</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/72010</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:58:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Web Analytics</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/72010</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I admit it. I'm a Google Analytics junkie. I try to stay away, but every now and then I hear it calling my name and I break down and log in. I feel the familiar rush of excitement running through my veins almost instantly. And I know anything else I may have planned to do that day won't get done because I'll be in my own world for hours. My analytics world. Just me and my stats.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Introverts Guide to Conference Networking]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65986</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65986</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:52:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65986</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great tips from Lisa Barone on conference networking. Nearly anyone who's attended a conference can relate, especially if you're somewhat shy.<br/><br/>72 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How the SEO Bubble Will Pop]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65223</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65223</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:19:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65223</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ian Lurie speculates about an SEO industry shake out:&quot;The industry shakes out. While many rip-off artists stick around, even more go away. Competent individuals move to agencies or continue as consultants. Corporations become smarter consumers of our services.&quot;<br/><br/>57 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top SEO Firms Paid for by the Following...]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63789</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63789</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:27:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63789</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great post by Mark Jackson about the creepy feeling he gets when he sees search marketing companies paying for the honor of being deemed &quot;best.&quot;<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The only thing cool about cuil is it changed the subject from knol!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62618</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62618</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:00:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62618</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just had to get that off my chest.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO for Blogs: If You Build It, Will They Come?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45447</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45447</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 11:10:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45447</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Inc. Technology article about optimizing blogs for increased search engine traffic. &quot;Blogs can be effective tools for raising the profile of your product or service -- but only if your target audience find them. Search engine optimization (SEO) can be effective for raising the profile of your blog.&quot;(Disclaimer: There are a few quotes from me as I spoke with the reporter who wrote the article.)<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Does "standards" Mean? - High Rankings Forum Discussion]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39395</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39395</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:44:40 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39395</guid>
<description><![CDATA[More on the Search Marketing Standards discussion. ProjectPHP asks for definitions of what standards mean, and Ian McAnerin delivers with some great definitions and lots of other useful information to continue this debate.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Have we run out of good SEO/SEM topics to write about?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34932</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34932</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:04:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34932</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In reviewing the &quot;What's New&quot; posts here at Sphinn this weekend, I was hoping to catch up with some interesting SEO/SEM articles I may have missed during the week. I really wanted to Sphinn some good stuff.  Unfortunately, the good stuff was few and far between. Mostly all I could find were posts about blogging and how to get rich quick.  The few posts with an SEO bent, were mostly inaccurate or had been previously discussed ad nauseum. Even the hot topics for the week were all about Twitter, Stumble and blogging. There were a few interesting topics, but not much for my tastes.So I'm wondering...have we simply run out of good SEO and SEM topics?<br/><br/>67 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Surprise! Not All Women Think Alike]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32062</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32062</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:03:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32062</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Holly Buchanan has a great article on how to break stereotypes by using User Personas. From the article: How many times have you sat down to write a piece of copy and the ideas simply did not flow? It used to happen to me a lot, until I started working with personas. Personas are a copywriter's best friend for so many reasons...<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Your Website Copy Crystal Clear?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31699</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31699</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:32:24 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31699</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My latest SEL article:Pretend you don't know anything about what your company offers and you stumbled onto it somehow. Can you tell immediately what it's all about? Can the search engines? Do this exercise with each inner page of the site as well. Is what each page has to offer, truly crystal clear? Or does your website presume that people already know who you are and what you're about. If it's the latter, you may have an online brochure on your hands, which isn't a good thing.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Avoiding SEO Brain Freeze Part One - Hunting For Keyword Phrases]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30520</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30520</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:46:32 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30520</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The first in my multi-part step-by-step series at TalentZoo on exactly how to optimize your website to gain more targeted traffic and conversions.  This article focuses on the very first step in your SEO process - hunting for the keyword phrases that you will eventually use to optimize each page of your website.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEM Skinny : The Dirty Little Secret of the SEO Industry]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25401</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25401</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:54:26 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25401</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Thought I'd stir up some additional SEO controversy here and point out my article over at Talent Zoo.  &quot;Have you been held hostage by a search engine optimization (SEO) or search marketing company who claims that your search engine rankings will tank as soon as you stop paying them their monthly fee? If so, you're not alone. Over the years I've heard this a number of times, and I'm here to tell you that under most circumstances, it's just not true!&quot;<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Did Sphinn Get to be the Get Rich Quick Article Repository?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23976</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23976</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:50:19 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23976</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've been busy the past few weeks and haven't had a chance to trawl the &quot;What's New Posts&quot; like I usually do. In reviewing them today, it seems like the percentage of get-rich-quick posts and blogs are overtaking those having to do with search marketing.I think it sucks. I wish Sphinn was more about search marketing like I thought it was supposed to be.How about you?<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Could A Chimp Do SEO? Heck YES!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15465</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15465</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:35:00 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15465</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO Chick, Julie Joyce asks, &quot;As a world class SEO, could you be replaced by an ape?&quot;<br/><br/>46 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nofollow removed from links in Sphinn comments?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13325</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13325</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:50:54 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13325</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just noticed links in Sphinn comments are no longer nofollowed.  Apologies if this has already been mentioned, I haven't been browsing much during the week.When did this get put into place, and is it permanent?Is it actually a good idea? I noticed it because I saw a comment where someone put in a sort of &quot;signature&quot; with a link to his site.Seems to me that comment links is actually what nofollow is for, as opposed to paid links that Google would now like them to be for!<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media Marketing: The New SEO?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10978</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10978</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:45:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10978</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My latest Search Engine Land article:&quot;Fall is the time of year when we start to look at where search marketing is heading. Looking at the latest search marketing conference agendas, articles, and online news in the SEM space, it certainly appears that social media marketing and networking are the wave of the future.&quot;<br/><br/>73 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Googlea4s Paid-link Smack in the Face]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10895</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10895</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:02:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10895</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I had to get in on all the paid-links rants...&quot;My guess is that the toolbar PR penalty is just that - a lowering of visible PR in order to make a statement.&quot;<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I'm a toad, can't figure out how to send a message to Sphinn users]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7645</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7645</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:19:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7645</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Most likely, I'm just missing it somewhere, but how the heck to you send a message to someone on here? I can't find it anywhere.  I see how to reply to someone who messaged you (although that doesn't always work either as I just had two errors doing that). But I can't find anywhere how I would message someone who hasn't already messaged me.So where is the obvious link to do this that I'm missing?!<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jill Whalen -vs- SEO Hack  The Worst SEO Blog Ever!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7603</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7603</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:31:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7603</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO Hack professing his love for me, umm...kinda sorta ;)<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Good to Great: Gillian Responds to Rand's Answers to Hard Questions]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7543</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7543</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:46:40 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7543</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An amazing post by Gillian from SEOmoz. Partially a review of the book &quot;Good to Great,&quot; but oh so much more!<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making the world (and you site) flata4via a Reverse Proxy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6998</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6998</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:00:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6998</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Surprised no one has submitted this yet! Hamlet Batista has an interesting article on reverse proxy, and a good discussion on whether a particular software that uses the technique is cloaking against search engine guidelines or not.  Tough one to decide! Matt Cutts...what say you?<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will we ever get paragraph formatting back in the comments?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6919</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6919</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:59:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6919</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It seems that once the formatting box was added this weekend, as others have commented, we can't create new paragraphs.&amp;nbsp; All comment sentences have to run together like a big jumbled mess.&amp;nbsp; Just wondering if a fix for this is in the works? It really makes our comments look bad and read poorly.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Finding keys to the Web - The Boston Globe]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6586</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6586</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:29:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6586</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I don't know if this is Sphinn-worthy or not, but I can't help but want to self-promote the Boston Globe's profile that came out on me today! :)<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[If I see one more Sphinn post about BlogRush I think I'll puke]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6522</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6522</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:56:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6522</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Danny, can you somehow automatically make any post about BlogRush be filtered out as spam?&amp;nbsp; &amp;lt;sigh&amp;gt;<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Please post who wrote the article you're Sphinning!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4442</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4442</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:26:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4442</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When I visit Sphinn, I often scan the What's New section as well as the What's Hot section.  There's a lot of stuff in both of them and all I have to go on is the Title and the Description the Sphinner decides to post. I personally know that certain author's articles will be better than other author's articles and would truly appreciate it if you would please mention who the author is when you Sphinn someone else's article.  You could actually make or break the number of Sphinn's someone else's article gets due to this (especially if you as the submitter are not a recognized Sphinner). Once an article is Sphunn and it doesn't mention the original author's name, it appears that it can't really be easily added in later so that people can see it.This comes up simply because I was going to Sphinn a great article I saw on Search Engine Guide by Diane &quot;Torka&quot; Aull just a bit ago.  I hadn't noticed it previously posted, but when I went to submit it, Sphinn told me it already was posted. I was surprised when I saw that the original didn't mention who the author was, as I know I would have read it had I known it was one of Diane's.Just a little rant for those of you submitting articles!<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cre8pc on Usability & Holistic SEO Why Social Media Bugs Me, ME, ME!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2161</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2161</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:33:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2161</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great post by Kim Krause Berg as to why she's not into social media sites.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Blogger Types: The Good, the Bad, and the Sleazy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1648</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1648</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:03:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1648</guid>
<description><![CDATA[These past few weeks I've watched how things played out in the blogosphere after breaking the story of Google's new &quot;unavailable_after&quot; tag.  I have to say that what I learned was extremely interesting and educational to me!  I have been writing articles for the High Rankings Advisor newsletter and other publications for many years and have seen bits and pieces of my work get picked up in various places; however, it's a whole a4nother ballgame when you break an important news story.<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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