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Excerpt: Social media is a popularity contest. A study of UTube and Digg has shown that the popularity of a post or video depends on the number of votes it get early on in its life. This should come as no surprise to anyone that uses Sphinn. Articles gain importance from the number of Sphinn they can achieve.  On Sphinn I can see there are two reasons for this: i) A variation on the filthy-linking-rich theory – that posts with Sphinns find it much easier to get Sphinns. These sites will be ranked higher and receive greater exposure giving them more opportunity…

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Excerpt: In part I of this two part series on SEO tips for Blogs we looked at WordPress plugins, creating themes, internal linking, RSS Feeds and Blog Aggregators. In the second part of  search engine optimisation for blogs, we examine social media, external linking and how to avoid duplicate content. Social Media Twitter Twitter is a social networking site that allows you keep in touch with groups of people on the web through the passing of short messages (tweets) to say what you are doing. It sound like a ridiculous idea but it has the capability to build up a targeted audience for your…