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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Posted By: johnandrews 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn members to prove their mettle as marketers, by pushing Sphinn over 400 for the first time.

It started as a challenge to put something higher than Rand Fishkin - even Rand voted for that! And then we wen read more »
74 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2007 - 7:52 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 308 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Back by popular demand - one year later! read more »
32 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2007 - 4:47 am
Posted By: randfish 359 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Sphinn Zone
10 reasons why search marketers should be engaging with Sphinn - from the selfish to the noble and a few in between. read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2007 - 9:06 pm
Posted By: KangoTraveler 267 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.meangene.com)
Category: Google SEO
I stumbled across this today, apparently this web developer was pissed about having to make more "SEO Changes" to his site ; hilarious! read more »
22 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 9, 2007 - 8:51 am
Posted By: toprank 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Blogging
I may not read 400 SEO blogs every day, but I read at least 50-100 one day per week and these are the things that can make it a pain in the rear experience. Listen up! read more »
30 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2007 - 3:48 pm
Posted By: tamar 362 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
I often get asked to review a web site and give quick feedback on the site’s SEO. The issue: Is the site doing well, or in desperate need of SEO help? To answer those questions, I’ve developed a speedy system to go through a site and take a quick SE read more »
31 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2007 - 5:12 pm
Posted By: vanessafox 301 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanessafoxnude.com)
Category: SEO
But why is this quiz so wrong? Too many of the questions go beyond the science and into the art of SEO, where things are fluid and changing and open to interpretation. The quiz is more accurately a test of how much of your personal SEO philosophy ma read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2007 - 5:10 pm
Posted By: Lyndon 362 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Link Building
Imagine you’re Google for as moment (I accept that’s not an easy challenge!). Your job is to do the “right” job and fairly and wisely and correctly rank web pages from all across the internet on any given search term. What a job! read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 17, 2007 - 8:17 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
When you start reading down the list, you might think Michael has gone absolutely bonkers, until you get to his explanations further down the page. read more »
26 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
We've had several threads here on Sphinn debating whether Google will hurt a site for selling links. Now an official answer: yes. If you sell links, Google says it might drop your PR score, penalize you in the rankings or potentially ban your site a read more »
78 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 24, 2007 - 6:29 am
Posted By: planetc1 289 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.kickrss.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
The first Sphinn Avatar Birthday Card. Happy birthday Danny, from all your Sphinn friends and stalkers!!! read more »
40 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 8:27 am
Posted By: Wiep 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google SEO
"For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans."

Most of t read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 5:38 am
Posted By: peterdavanzo 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkjuicy.com)
Category: Link Building
In-depth interview on cutting edge PR and linking strategy. "If Google wins what’s going to happen is the market will go underground. You’re going to have to "know a guy" to get you links." read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2007 - 3:48 am
Posted By: webuildpages 285 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jimboykin.com)
Category: Link Building
A few days ago the Cool Aid and FUD was passed around here about a site that was penalized in rankings because they sold a few links. Jim believes Google doesn't, nor ever will, penalize sites for selling links. Find out why! read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2007 - 2:02 pm
Posted By: Hobo 285 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Wow! Aaron Wall really delivers an impressive piece:

"I recently created the internet marketing mind map, covering just about everything I know about online marketing." read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2007 - 8:36 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 232 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Blogging
Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) ba read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 10:11 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Inspired by legendary basketball coach John Wooden, the SEO Success Pyramid is a guide to SEO success for everyone who's new to SEO and online marketing. Includes a free download of a printable graphic. I'd love any feedback! read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 9:12 am
Posted By: Rhea 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Loren Baker reports a page rank drop for Search Engine Journal as well as sites like Forbes.com, Engadget and the Washington Post. What are you seeing? read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 3:04 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
142 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 21, 2008 - 9:24 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
"I have been thinking about this for a while. There are so many new SEOs getting into the game and unfortunately many of them are clueless wanna-be’s. How are we to distinguish between these posers and the “Real” deal?" read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 5:56 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Google SEO
The interview appears to have taken place on September 24th, but was published today.

Covers following of links (mentions javascript being followed)
Robots.txt (pages blocked can be returned in search results, and can accrue PageRank)
Noindex a read more »
31 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 26, 2007 - 3:09 pm
Posted By: tamar 256 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
With all due respect to my friends in the industry, compared to the amount of Digg requests I get (and you’d think I get a lot of those) and the amount of stories submitted to Sphinn in a given day, Sphinn has spiraled out of control. read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 10:43 am
Posted By: Sebastian 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: SEO
Here is my book on server sided redirects. It's a longish draft intended to bore you to death with geeky language and dull quotes from protocol standards and similar technical documents. For entertainment purposes it comes with search engine bashing read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 4, 2007 - 5:33 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 248 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.soloseo.com)
Category: Water Cooler
It's called "What The Customer Actually Wanted" and is both hysterical and dead-on accurate in so many ways. :-) read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 26, 2007 - 8:42 am
Posted By: tamar 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
I spent a ridiculous amount of time collecting what I consider the best posts of the year for 2007 in just about every area: social media, SEO, viral marketing, link building, reputation management, domaining, affiliate sites, and more. There are o read more »
18 Comments     


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