Calendar
Network
Feeds
- 42
- Sphinn It!
Went Hot: April 1, 2008 - 8:49 am
Posted By: Kalena 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Blogging
22 Comments
Went Hot: April 1, 2008 - 8:49 am
Posted By: Kalena 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Blogging
22 Comments
Top 10 Most Sphunn
In What's New
- Positioning yourself using SEO and ... (20)
- 10 Emergency SEO Tips For When Thin... (20)
- Importance of Documenting Your SEO ... (20)
- PPC Advertising: Art or Science? (20)
- 5 ways to improve rankings through ... (19)
- Fixing duplicate content in SEO sit... (18)
- How to Switch Your User-Agent to Go... (18)
- Google passes second link’s anchor ... (17)
- Top 10 URL Design Failures of Famou... (17)
- Enterprise SEO and the art of the p... (16)
Latest Comments
- Ahh yeah... the numbers are live and kicking right now. This made my night.…
- Cool - one thing I have to add is to analyze your conversion rates by scree…
- So BOTW hiring editors from the world's most pathetic directory is a good t…
- Maybe the poor soul meant this link:
- Yeah... did nobody notice this is from July 2007? Caused quite a stir back …
- I think it makes sense but not really sure it is coming to an end... Is Goo…
- Ok, only thing I have to say on this has to do with the comments, not the p…
- Publicity? Dr. Pete's 24 Hours of Twitter is coincidentally on the same day…
- - read more -
Save the date for:
• SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
• SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
• SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
• SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
• SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
• SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008
Comments
A few more Sphinners have just been added. Congrats to:
- Sebastian's Pamphlets
- Hamlet Batista
- Andy Beard
- Eric Enge
and whoever else I've missed
In all honesty? It looks like a marketing campaign that seeks to reach out to key communicators and bring them on board with basic flattery.
Seriously, is anyone saying it's a great service? Is anyone saying they've been asked for input? Or is it just a little targeted flattery, with the aim of turning communicators into evangelists for yet another aggregator service?
Brian.... U can be on MY list any time big boy... he he... Sour Grapes SEO (see blog fer details) :0)
A list is a list is a list... and as Brian suggests sending out emails is a great way to get some publicity, tho SEOs should be able to find it pretty quick anyways. It does seem a little screwy as far as a mixture of search marketing stuff (not JUST SEO) and some ..erm...suspect, listings.
Congrats none-the-less to you and other happy campers K - always nice to be loved.... back to my grapes..
I'm on the social media section of Alltop and it probably sends me less than 15 visitors everyday according to my stats... I don't think it'll get me many new readers in the long run. Might be useful for some people though.
And flattery + free exposure works... I would have probably promoted it the same way, if I released an aggregator tool-thingy.
15 visitors eh? Hmmm that's not exactly what I had in mind. We'll see what happens.
Admittedly, I am a huge Guy fan, so my reaction was magnified x 10 LOL.
Ok, now I just feel silly
Well, K - I'll give the site a run next time I am researching niches.. maybe I will make a GCSE for each niche, or does he have that going on already? Would be an interesting angle... My grapes to wine seemed a treat - so I guess it works on me :0)
Oh and a few new notables since this morning;
Wiep Knol
Debra Masteler
Jill Whalen
Michael Martinez
(thanks Guy)....
I've got a site listed in the health category. I actually like the service and have been checking several areas for new ideas. No news on traffic stats yet, I'll post if anything interesting appears.
I enjoy Guy's writings, but I haven't found myself to be a fan of anything he's launched or even invested in lately. Great personality for a once-in-a-while antogonist interview, though.
Oh, sorry - and a big congrats to those who made his list!
That's a bit more comforting, thanks Michael.
It doesn't speak much to their editorial skills that Threadwatcher is included. No offense to Earl but they haven't had a new post there since last August?
Yup thus my rant; http://www.huomah.com/News/Latest/Sour-grapes-and-my-wrath.html
i rank #1 for seo blog and I don't make the grade ... yeah good list there
I also got added a couple of nights ago too.
@GW - yup.... certainly a few holes to be sure. Guy seems pretty good about it tho.... so hopefully it will round out - did U want me to make another sphinn discussion for U (again)? j/k -
Help me out here - news aggregrator from a search professional that doesn't actually disseminate, categorise or organise information in any particularly useful, new or inspiring way. What's the point?
Re: the about page - "A table of contents" would at least list information in a meaningful order. "A dashboard" would have some function. "A digital magazine rack" is probably the most accurate description, but given we *browse" magazine racks and are already using a *browser* what more does this actually bring to user experience?
Basically a scraper site that hand picks the sites it scrapes from? Someone correct me if I'm missing some spectacular meaning to the project. If the brand goal is the "cessation of Internet stagnation", how does it actually achieve that goal?
The FAQ is just plain arrogant:
Q: What if I want my site removed?
A: Because you have to much traffic? Just send us an email.
Lol!
Desphunn for what it's worth - press release for a glorified scraper site doesn't constitute front page news IMO.
MG
It's a compliment anytime anybody who's human links to someone's blog :). It's all good.
Agree with Scott - Desphunn.
Dosh Dosh,
If you'd like to be removed, just let me know. Guy@alltop.com.
Guy
Thanks for the add Guy. :-)