Published: Jul 15, 2007 - 12:59 pm
Story Found By: dannysullivan 2166 Days ago
Category: Sphinn Zone
17 Comments
17 Comments
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Before diving in, Ill add that some of these are workarounds to features we dont have yet but plan to add soon. If you have feature suggestions, heres the wishlist discussion: http://sphinn.com/story/125 We have lots of comments happening here, and theyre all great. Unfortunately, the comments feed isnt yet ready. But theres an easy way to keep up with the latest. Use the Sphinn Live area. Look here: http://sphinn.com/comments Those are all the comments recently posted to the site. Until the feeds going, thats a handy way to see at a glance what people are saying across all topics. I also suspect that many people dont realize how useful it is to sort the Whats New page or perhaps even why to use it at all! Whats New shows you the latest things that have been submitted, so that you can Sphinn the items you like. By default, we show the most recent things added to Whats New. However, you can also use the "Popular" link at the top of the list to see all the Whats New items by number of Sphinns theyve received. Look at this: http://sphinn.com/upcoming/mostpopular/category/AllCategories Now you know whats most popular in Whats New. And if those items get additional Sphinns and/or have commenting activity, both those factors along with how recently theyve been submitted can help them move to the Hot Topics page. Back to the Live page, be sure to see the main part here: http://sphinn.com/live I have that open on one of my screens, and its fun to watch everything thats going on -- sphinns, submits and comments. Other tips?
Bookmarklet and badges can be found in tools http://sphinn.com/tools.php Making life easier for both your site visitors and those just wanting to submit here from their browser :) Congrats by the way Danny!
You can now list the upcoming sphinns by popularity: http://sphinn.com/upcoming/mostpopular/
I sure feel like a voyeur watching the Live page! :)
Love the profiles, this site rocks thanks for the info. and the top site Danny.
Just found this site. It is really nice. Thanks for the tips and for creating this awesome website. Is this gonna be the "Digg-killer"?
Is it just me that sees the cogs moving on the left of the homepage when Im reading the central column? Its either magic eye trickery or me going mad (probably the latter).
That Live page is great!
I hope its not the "DIGG-killer" because most of the commenters on that site are either half-retarded or socially inept to a painful point, and need to stay there. I hope this will be more of a "gathering of the great SEO minds" instead, where we can all come to discuss new and emerging trends in our little niche market. Im fairly new to the scene and hope I can offer some good discussion or tips of my own once I get a little more comfortable. Shout out to the greats of SEO like Rand Fishkin whos stellar advice pushed me into suggesting an SEO package for our company, and now Im head of the department. :D
Am I just blind, or is there no link (other than here on this page) to the Sphinn Live section? I have to keep finding this page to remember how to get to the page. Although, of course, now that Im actually thinking about it, looking at the url...its simple enough to remember. Duh! Still, I think it should be a tab or something, otherwise lots of people wont know about it.
I wrongly sphinned an irrelevant news story, how do I remove it?
Hi Danny, I feel clueless. I cant figure out how to actually give a Sphinn. I assumed clicking the "Sphinn" button would do it, but I dont appear in the list of people who "sphunn" the post. I looked for "how to sphinn", but cant find anything. Im logged in, so what am I doing wrong?
Click on the Sphinn link under the button.
Thanks for all the hints Danny. I really appreciate it.
Some other tips that will help you avoid the wrath of the sphinn community(although were truly an amiable bunch, even myself I like to think)I dont want to make anyone afraid to submit, but Id like to throw out some precautions.1) Do not submit a homepage of any site. Just articles.2) Dont submit a blatant plug for anything. Especially if its solely to make money. Especially if its a "too good to be true" offer.3)Space your submissions out. It kinda sucks seeing one person 4 times in a row on the upcoming feed.
I cant find where I should submit an article, I feel blind!
The tab up near the top that says "submit" should do it.