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Topics related to social media search engines and sites. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or social media news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Social Media
Great post from Tad Chef about how to generate 3,000 high-quality visitors from the search industry. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 12:52 pm
Posted By: rickgalan 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: Social Media
David Snyder shares his presentation from SES on leveraging established social media platforms to create blended SERPs for your brand/company. Good stuff! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 8:44 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.scope.is)
Category: Other Social Media
What is your brand like? What do you WANT your brand to be like? During the branding process, how might mistakes possibly be of benefit to us? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 8:00 am
Posted By: steaprok 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Social Media
To win a customer or reader over, you need to manage their perspectives. You need to win their trust. You need to be the better choice, the lesser evil. To that end, you need an acute understanding and ongoing awareness of your competitors. What are read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 2:00 pm
Posted By: steaprok 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
As twitter folds under the mighty pressure of Matt Cutts Google by removing the ability to get link juice from your profile link,Did Twitter stop the bots ..NO read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Posted By: yourseomentor 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Blogging
Great article by Dave Snyder on the various microblogging platforms such as Twitter, Plurk, and FriendFeed.

"As with any social media platform that grows in popularity, Internet marketers are eager to figure out how to leverage microblogging pla read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 12:52 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Social Media
There’s a heated discussion on Twitter today following the move to take away link juice from bio links on profiles. What do you think, is this unfairly punishing active users? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 12:18 pm
Posted By: khalid 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.invesp.com)
Category: Social Media
Here is the interview we promised with one of Digg top users read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 10:22 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Social Media
Rae Hoffman writes, "As you may have heard, Twitter recently decided to “nofollow” links left of the “bio” section of user profiles. The “web” link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, wh read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 5:18 pm
Posted By: onreact 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://royal.pingdom.com)
Category: News Sites
Social news traffic: Mixx is the fastest growing, Digg still the biggest, Sphinn is not bad at all for a niche community with targeted traffic. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 1, 2008 - 1:53 pm
Posted By: NickWilsdon 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Twitter have released their most detailed list yet on what they consider spam. Commercial or promotional Twitter users take note, these activities can get your account suspended or banned. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 5:33 am
Posted By: steaprok 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Getting involved in Social Media can be intimidating. So much so that you might not know where to even begin. There is Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, Mixx, Digg. There are blogs, forums, wikis, photo sharing, vlogging (video blogging), and other read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 3:30 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Social Media
James Duthie tries to answer the question... Is social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 4:48 pm
Posted By: vandelay 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://traffikd.com)
Category: Other Social Media
"It’s been said many times, including by me, that one of the flaws of social media marketing is that the resulting traffic is short-lived. That short-term nature of social media traffic is one of the biggest reasons that social media marketing is of read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 12:17 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.3dogmedia.com)
Category: Social Media
Twitter has so many benefits and the opportunities you can find on Twitter are endless. It isn’t going anywhere and with over one million users, everyday that passes before you join is a missed opportunity for you.

Stop asking how and why. St read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 10:04 am
Posted By: toddmintz 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Networking
David Mihm discusses why it is advantageous to be an early adapter of technology as opposed to a herd follower. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 9:15 am
Posted By: eristoddle 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stephanmiller.com)
Category: Blogging
The mission of Bloghology is to cover everything blogging and be devoted totally to blogging, providing new and experienced bloggers with worthwhile content every issue. We give advertisers the opportunity to promote their products and services in a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: SiteMost 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Blogging
Content is King and links are Queen. Together with a nice dose of marketing they make a nice little kingdom. But what if you have trouble generating new content on a regular basis? How can resource strapped bloggers and busy web site owners leverage read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 11:52 am
Posted By: danzarrella 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Social Media
The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, blogs, and social news and networking sites tend to share online content with more people, more often than those that do not. This means t read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 8:58 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10e20.com)
Category: Social Media
There are many reasons the Digg Community may perceive you negatively, or worse yet, consider you a filthy social media spammer. If you take part in the majority of these activities you probably aren’t seen as a positive social media maven as you ma read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 2:07 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Muhammad Saleem writes, "When I attended South by Southwest 2008, I had the pleasure of attending a panel where four somewhat lost panelists were (with difficulty) trying to come up with metrics to measure success from a social media marketing campa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 6:55 am
Posted By: Maing 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Blogging
How frequently do you write blog posts knowing that they’ve got a very limited shelf life, or post a news post knowing it’ll be out of date in a months time?
All the time right? Then why not make the links garnered by those posts work for for you? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 25, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Posted By: Sugarrae 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Blogging
I listed several things I've done to my Wordpress theme to make the site better looking and more functional for users - including a new hack from Joost (with permission) to get some awesome functionality for guest posters. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2008 - 6:29 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: Social Media
There are so many definitions for Social Media. What is Social Media really? read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2008 - 11:07 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessweek.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Don't be surprised to see advertising on Twitter soon. It's about the only way the service can generate revenue. But will it be enough? Insightful article by Ben Kunz at BusinessWeek. read more »
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