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Bloggers! Write In Passion Or Die
Went Hot: September 24, 2007 - 10:26 am
Posted By: Harith 350 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
The same thing apply to my kind fellow Sphinners who are busy submitting the trash of those dispassionate bloggers. If you submit trash to Sphinn you might risk your own reputation among your fellow Sphinners.
And I have noticed a trend. Some Sphinners are submitting invaluable "thin" contents just because it was written by popular bloggers. Please be more critical even if the blogger is a popular name.
Before submitting an article ask yourself; have I learned anything of that article? Is it worth the time of my fellow Sphinners? Has the blogger given anything of himself ? Has the blogger shown interest in the comments posted?
If the answers to all those questions is NO. Please don't submit that trash.
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Respect! and read this too. It should be quality over quantity not the other way around!
"And I have noticed a trend. Some Sphinners are submitting invaluable "thin" contents just because it was written by popular bloggers."
If that's true, I'm guessing its due to people trying to nail the front page by spinning any and every article published on top SEO blogs.
I think the key thing here is to understand black hat SEO isn't about repeating "blue widget" 1,000 times on a page. Black hat SEO is about taking more from the community than you're giving back.
If your motive isn't to contribute to or participate in the Sphinn community, you might want to think twice before you hit that Sphinn button. Hopefully we can have the "vote down" UI soon so the community can start voting down useless submits.
"I think the key thing here is to understand black hat SEO isn't about repeating "blue widget" 1,000 times on a page. Black hat SEO is about taking more from the community than you're giving back."
Some might say by your definition that the people that create the community (who in turn profit from it the most) are themselves Black hat SEO then. I urge you to reconsider your position.
To live and die by the Sphinn
I think the natural progression here will weed most thin content out. Also, some people here have been in the same circles for years while others are newcomers. Content that may appear old, thin, or useless to one group, may offer great value to others.
I'm assuming that people come to Sphinn to read qyality articles related to SEO/SEM from which they learn something or articles where Sphinners tell about their daily lives as prof SEO/SEM.
If people keep submitting poor contents we risk that Sphinn will end as a Bulletin Board covered with crap posts.
Danny & Co. have been generous to provide the platform of Sphinn. Its the Sphinners who are going to decide the level of success of Sphinn.
On some blogs you can both read and feel that the bloggers have lost their passion about the main subject of their blogs. Therefore they have ended writing about everything.
Take a look at the categories of some "popular blogs". You name it and they have a category for it. Can you figure out whats the main theme of those "marketplace" blogs? Keeping in mind that most of those blogs are supposed to be about search/SEO/SEM!!!
Should we write "in" passion or write "with" passion? There is a difference and the imagination starts to go wild with the former.
"Some might say by your definition that the people that create the community (who in turn profit from it the most)"
You reap what you sowe. Danny may make a million off Sphinn, but I'd say the community as a whole has gained a ton from Sphinn. Again, I'll underscore a basic idea many SEOs misunderstand. Black hat is not about overuse of tactics. It's about taking from the community and giving nothing back.