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As I've said I really want the best possible prizes for my readers. I think my blog is decent enough to give sponsors read more »
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I absolutely love Sphinn, but as a blog-owner it strikes me that it is so difficult to find out which posts of my blog are sphunn and which are not.

I tried several ways of finding out, but no luck. Where on earth is the advanced search on this s read more »
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Useful code snippet to only display Sphinnit buttons on SEO related posts. read more »
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There seems to be a lot of discussion lately about the quality of Sphinn submits and how some content gets to the top artificially because of who submitted the content or who got asked to sphinn it.

I'm curious to hear what the community at large read more »
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"...customers are discovering that adjusting their message on a direct mail piece can increase an emphasis on value without diminishing brand value, even for a luxury brand." read more »
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Facebook Connect on move, Google Friend Connect on guard, the much anticipated fight of the web is yet to come, who will win this battle? read more »
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Sphinn is a Shambolic Sham read more »
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Right, today I am disheartened to say that the company I work for have received an abusive and childish email sent via our contact form on our website. Upon checking the referral in our analytics, I am shocked to discover that the sender clicked on read more »
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An everyday story of search engine operation, this article describes how search engines break down documents into term-space and construct many-dimensional vectors of each document. As a result, documents can be compared for similarity and ranked in read more »
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Here are some Sphinn topics that many folks can agree they don't care to see go hot, even if they won't admit it on their own:

1. How To Write Interesting Titles

2. The Comprehensive Guide To X - Because this never features anything new but ju read more »
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Are you responsible for all your Sphinns? If so, then why the need to raise the bar? Would questioning quality of posts in the home page be enough reason rather than a call for responsibility? Will this be a good move for quality or quantity? Read m read more »
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It has become obvious that by having the number of Sphinns required to go hot at the low count of 23 is letting a lot of unworthy stuff hit the homepage due simply to networking. One thing that makes that glaringly obvious are posts that hit the hom read more »
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I’ve been a Sphinn user for ohh a couple of weeks it wasn’t until today I checked out the Greatest Hits section where there are some pearl’s, along with a few dud’s! read more »
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A look into the eternal question of how to pronounce 'Sphinn'. read more »
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I find it rather surprising that Emily Steel (the author of the WSJ article mentioned above) as well as your colleague, Greg, have drawn the conclusion that Yellow Pages’ online properties are not growing when widely available industry data clearly read more »
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I am not a very well known member on Sphinn at the moment and indeed have not been a very active member for long at all.

My purpose here though is to contribute effectively to the community, Sphinn articles that are relative and interesting to me read more »
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A simple low-down of what some of the options are for dealing with Sphinn spam. I've looked at topics ranging from moderation, to relevance rank and begging. read more »
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I am unable to desphinn, when I click "go", nothing happens. I have tried this in Firefox and IE and in both, experience the same problem. (My desphinn was enough characters).

I was looking forward to casting my first desphinn as well, haha. read more »
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Wikipedia is probably one of the more resourceful internet online encyclopedia (free) nowadays. The thing is that everyone can edit wikipedia. But then, its hard to game wikipedia because oftentimes they will check teh edited content and then 90% of read more »
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Is anyone working on reducing the spam that is submitted on Sphinn, looking at some of the user names, it seems that spam-bots are able to register and submit.

I get all Sphinn content fed to me via RSS and it takes me ages to filter out all the read more »
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Virtualization of servers is quickly becoming a mainstream technology for large enterprises. By leveraging virtualization technologies enterprises are realizing:

 Better utilization of computing resources
 Reduced power consumption
 Enhanced read more »
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Two alternative Sphinn RSS feeds. One lets you click directly to the blog posts in the hot topics. Call it Sphinn minus Sphinn. read more »
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Recently Sphinn moderators decided to close comments on the most active discussion going on because the moderator thought the comments were "going in circles."

My question is should Sphinn close comments on threads?

If someone is being abusive read more »
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Let's see how much free expression in the blogosphere is really cherished around here. It would be a valuable form of feedback to let people agree or disagree but to censor it...? A shame. It's not like one little post of dissention is going to c read more »
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Well the Question was popping every now and then in almost every forum so felt to put almost all the keyword research tools that I could find and know of in one Blog Post. :) - Pushkar Gaikwad read more »
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