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Avatar Posted By: Gab 10 hours ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
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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Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2008 - 8:47 am
Posted By: RyanCaldwell 1 day 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businesspundit.com)
Category: Social Media
Increased advertising will sustain, but not drive, Digg. The company can increase its user base through acquisitions and cross its fingers with ads, but without a bigger vision, Digg won’t stick around, assuming the plan is to stay independent. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2008 - 10:30 am
Posted By: ericbramlett 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Stay here and get straight to my answers? For really real? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: robgarner 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
It's official - SEMPO rang the bell at NASDAQ. Tremendous significance for SEMPO, and the SEM industry as a whole. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 5:44 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Other
Google keeps expanding, there's no doubt about this. But more interesting is how each expansion allows them to handle an entirely different type of data(be it credit cards, cell phone contacts, or email contacts) that can be used to better classify read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
Category: Google Searching
Interesting new personalization concepts from Google...

- Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - Search engine optimizers, or SEOs, who help companies improve their search engine rankings, should not rush to start manipulating SearchWiki—at least not yet. Ms read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 31, 2008 - 10:08 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.imbroadcast.com)
Category: Search Marketing
This is how it should be. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2008 - 1:51 pm
Posted By: Seosally 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Great interview with Craig Newmark - mentions thoughts on where he thinks the net/communication is going. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 21, 2008 - 3:39 pm
Posted By: MikeDammann 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ericonsearch.com)
Category: Domaining
More and more companies and organizations are now deciding that they have a claim to own your domain after you have used it to brand your online identity for many years.
Real estate organizations now want 50k domain names handed over to them after read more »
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Avatar Posted By: amitnyamtabad 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.amitnyamtabad.com)
Category: Networking
Online tools to help you track major trends and conversations on Twitter. All major tools reviewed with screen shots. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MikeDammann 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: Social Media
This one went really well. Social media expert and professional author Shel Israel shares insights on social media, blogging, and how to related to the public in general! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 14, 2008 - 4:00 pm
Posted By: Harith 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: Blogging
Mike Dammann: Everyone I network with uses wordpress. Sure, there are some Typepad and Moveable Type users here and there, but Wordpress is the search engine friendliest, easiest to install and the plugins are great.

Wordpress is by far the best. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 9, 2008 - 12:48 pm
Posted By: streko 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://worstseoblogever.wordpress.com)
Category: Social Media
Sorry I ain’t been around much lately, baby. It’s been crazy busy you know. Just got a lot of shit going on and am spreading the Hack pretty thin. And I think we both know this time might be coming sooner or later, right? I mean, we had a good thing read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MikeDammann 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: Blogging
Elle Niessen went to WordCamp 2008 and this is her report from the event! Enjoy! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
Another rant from David where he talks about how "SEO is dead, ranking is useless and other fairy tales".

In his usual style David goes through gripes about SEO in a step by step, methodical way.

"Well peeps, it seems it’s that time again an read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samirb 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Water Cooler
David from Huomah.com decides Marketer's and Reputation Managers don't work hard enough. He's come up with an anti-reputation-management company, who's singular goal is to "b*$%h slap" your competitors.

"If you’ve got a competitor (or even a fri read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MikeDammann 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: Blogging
I have asked Matt a few questions regarding search engine friendliness of platforms, recent security issues with wordpress and what he plans to do in the future. Enjoy! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpind 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Jill Whalen is the CEO of High Rankings and has been one of the leaders in SEO for many, many years. Enjoy this one. I am not sure if Jill remembers, but I have met her in 2005 for a minute. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MikeDammann 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://firetown.com)
Category: SEO
No matter how many people like to label themselves as such, the definition of SEO in itself goes against the original webmaster guidelines Google put upon those who publish websites. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 6:21 am
Posted By: jdevalk 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martijnbeijk.com)
Category: Google SEO
Martijn provides an excellent insight into why you should be using KML files on your site, and how to do that! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: News Sites
Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 7:54 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
The #1 ranking page on Google and Yahoo for a killer local real estate query happens to be a domain for sale. [sarcasm]Nice job, search engines. That's good for users.[/sarcasm] read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 1:21 am
Posted By: Gab 135 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: News Sites
Well, you might still get indexed, but spamming sphinn no longer gets you a dofollow link if you don't go hot. Will this affect the quality of submissions? Only time will tell. What do you guys think? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2008 - 12:39 pm
Posted By: Wiep 136 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
I don't know if this is here to stay, but I just noticed that all the external links from stories that haven't reached the front page yet are being nofollowed now. Great!

Hopefully this puts an end to the invasion of spam. I almost got RSI from c read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2008 - 6:13 am
Posted By: ericbramlett 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Mike Damman interviews Guy Kawasaki and picks his brain about online marketing. Really good interview that offers some solid insight. We all need to stack the cheddar like Guy! read more »
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