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Avatar Went Hot: November 11, 2008 - 9:49 am
Posted By: zigojacko 24 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
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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Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2008 - 11:39 am
Posted By: ChelseaBlacker 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Incrediblehelp explains why top sphinns are getting on his nerves, and the need for unique content that isn't just recycled SEM talk. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 9, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Link Building
It’s been a while since I've gone out on the hunt for links from quality directories, and the experience these past few days hasn't been good: There's a lot more junk out there than not. This can be a problem for the small business owner who may str read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: ciaran 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fireflyseo.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Hey, any list that gives me a namecheck is gonna get a Sphinn. There's a few names that should probably be up there that aren't, so drop a comment if there's a search Brit you think deserves a plug.. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 5:39 am
Posted By: toddmintz 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google Other
Effective 9/1/2008, John Andrews will be working for Google. He explains why in his post. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 11:55 pm
Posted By: aimClear 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google SEO
So how does this drastically change the keywords we will see in referrer logs? The author brainstorms possible implications for SEOs. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 8:16 am
Posted By: ViperChill 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
One of the problems with working on Small Business SEM is content development. So far we know what keywords we are targeting, who our link market is, and how to gain those links. But in order to target a large range of the long tail keywords, we do read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 9:34 pm
Posted By: Harith 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
GrayWolf: Ask any advanced SEO to describe what they want in a link and you’re likely to get something like this …

“A keyword rich link from a well linked/important/popular page on a trusted and authoritative website, that is preferably topic read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 12:42 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Lee Odden writes "Lists and ranking resources can be tough and controversial. A while back we ranked top blogs on the topic of search engine marketing (SEO and PPC) that publish their RSS subscriber counts via Google’s Feedburner.

With changes in read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 10:51 am
Posted By: Jill 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Ian Lurie speculates about an SEO industry shake out:

"The industry shakes out. While many rip-off artists stick around, even more go away. Competent individuals move to agencies or continue as consultants. Corporations become smarter consumers o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: tamar 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://en.wikipedia.org)
Category: Other Social Media
Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 13, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: bwelford 236 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blog.marketmou.com)
Category: Google SEO
A great interview with Aaron Wall. Sometimes I find interviews are of lesser value than you'd expect from the interviewee. In this case, you won't be disappointed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 3:21 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEM Industry
From May 28th 2008 the practice of blogging under false pretences (or flogging as we like to call it) will become more than just black hat - it'll become illegal! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 1, 2008 - 6:07 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 247 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Let's imagine you've just dreamed up some brilliant new web startup company that's going to change the world and fill this great unfulfilled need. Now, if only there were some way to figure out if other people were interested in solving the same pro read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 1, 2008 - 1:08 pm
Posted By: bwelford 248 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
I think there's nothing to lose and everything to gain by making Desphunn Comments just another way of making a regular Comment. If they're in the normal flow and appear in Latest Comments, then they will encourage discussion, which presumably is t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 6:12 am
Posted By: Jill 264 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: SEM Industry
In reviewing the "What's New" posts here at Sphinn this weekend, I was hoping to catch up with some interesting SEO/SEM articles I may have missed during the week. I really wanted to Sphinn some good stuff.

Unfortunately, the good stuff was few read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MarketingGuy 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Networking
Title says it all. The BBC are reporting today that AOL have acquired Bebo for $850 million. According to the BBC, Bebo has 40 million registered users who view 78 pages on average each day.

Official press release can be found here: http://bebo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 14, 2008 - 7:05 am
Posted By: PPCblogger 268 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Have seen several cases now where using “nofollow” on internal links did this -

a) Increased ranking on short tail and killed a lot of long tail traffic .. Hmmm not good
b) Didn’t effect ranking’s at all .. Ok so my internal page rank may have l read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 290 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Water Cooler
The v7n Network, which consists of v7n Webmaster Forums, the v7n Directory and the Contextual Links link buying service is up for sale on Sitepoint Forums. The Buy It Now price for v7n.com is $500,000 with bids starting at $400,000. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 17, 2008 - 4:08 pm
Posted By: SiteMost 294 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEO
We take on a lot of SEO design projects where we help clients design sites from the ground up in a way that will be conducive to search engine spidering and eventually competitive rankings. You’ll often hear how search engine optimization shouldn’t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 294 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitecreations.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Scott Clark is such an authentic writer. We're lucky to have him here. He writes: "I have six professional [SEO] heroes presently - and I don’t mind sharing. In random order, they are: (you have to read the post :)" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 16, 2008 - 3:22 pm
Posted By: SiteMost 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Having worked exclusively with small businesses for the first nine years of my online marketing career, and with several small business owners in my family, I have a lot of appreciation for the hard work it takes to succeed. The fact that I've worke read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 15, 2008 - 6:48 am
Posted By: rustybrick 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Wanted to start a thread wishing everyone a happy Valentines Day!

My post has a large collection of special logos from our industry, plus links to past logos from the previous years.

Happy Valentines Day! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 8:39 pm
Posted By: Hobo 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Thoughts please on my analysis and how to determine if this is indeed a change in the way Google is handling smaller blogs that don't meet a certain "authority score" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 14, 2008 - 6:32 pm
Posted By: EstebanPanzera 297 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Have you ever thought about appearing when someone uses the define command at Google? Now you can do it easily with this 11 easy tips. read more »
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