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The importance of Sphinn can’t be stressed enough. Knowing how to successfully use Sphinn, whats going on in the Sphinn community and whats the hottest Sphinn news is can be the difference between success and failure in the internet marketing community today. To ensure that my colleagues are in the know I compiled the most important articles as judged by Sphinn about Sphinn.

If you ever wanted to know anything about Sphinn the answer is in one of these posts.

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Word to the Wise

If you need help figuring out how to use Sphinn then you haven’t read Sphinn. Many of the top stories are all about how get the most out of the social media darling of internet marketers everywhere. The very best “How to Sphinn” articles as selected by top Sphinners are listed below. With articles ranging from step by step guides for beginners to in depth statistical analysis it’ll be hard to pose a question that hasn’t been answered in this list.

Who’s the top “Word to the Wise” Sphinner? AndyBeard submitted the most articles about how to Sphinn.

How To Get to The Top of Sphinn on Your First Try
Poster: andrewsho - SphinnLink
Become a Power User of Sphinn in 5 Steps
Poster: AndyBeard - SphinnLink
A Very Beginner’s Guide to the Sphinn Network : Tips and Tricks
Poster: floppy - SphinnLink
How to Dominate Sphinn in 4 Easy Steps!
Poster: jeffquipp - SphinnLink
Spurring Discussion (Posts) on Sphinn
Poster: billslawski - SphinnLink
How NOT To Manipulate Social News: A Sphinn Experience
Poster: SlightlyShadySEO - SphinnLink
Is it a sin to Sphinn? yourself?
Poster: JamesDuthie - SphinnLink
Fool Proof Sphinn-Bait Tactics to Reach the Front Page
Poster: Lyndon - SphinnLink
One Week of Sphinn SEO Lessons
Poster: martinbowling - SphinnLink
2,500 Hot Sphinns Reveal Patterns and Trends
Poster: jeffquipp - SphinnLink
Confessions of A Sphinn Vote Begging Whore (Not Really)
Poster: AndyBeard - SphinnLink
How to time your Sphinn Submissions Perfectly to Hit Front Page
Poster: cmiddlebrook - SphinnLink
Sphinn: 30 Minutes of Moderating, 7 Common Mistakes
Poster: MattMcGee - SphinnLink
Getting on the Sphinn Front Page: Basic and Advanced Concepts
Poster: SlightlyShadySEO - SphinnLink
Sphinn & The Hidden Value of Social News Bookmarking Immersion
Poster: DoshDosh - SphinnLink
Sphinn, Stumble, Tweet and Drop Your Way Into the New Year!
Poster: TheNanny612 - SphinnLink

Sphinn Sucks

Some people think Sphinn sucks, some people think the people who voice post “Sphinn Sucks” posts suck more. Obviously these deluded people just haven’t seen all the goodness that is Sphinn. Despite their obvious confusion their complaints got Sphunn to make it easier for the Sphinn community to mock them. The top “Sphinn Sucks” Sphinns are listed below so you can begin to mercilessly tease them for their shortsightedness. Now get to work!

Who’s the top submitter of “Sphinn Sucks” posts? scottclark! Good job Scott for bringing these ridiculous claims to our attention.

What the nF? Sphinn adds nofollow!
Poster: TimDineen - SphinnLink
Sphinn Needs A Ho-Hum Button
Poster: bwelford - SphinnLink
If I see one more Sphinn post about BlogRush I think I’ll puke
Poster: Jill - SphinnLink
When Did Sphinn Get to be the Get Rich Quick Article Repository?
Poster: Jill - SphinnLink
Is This the End of Sphinn
Poster: swags2804 - SphinnLink
Please Don’t Ask Me to Sphinn Your Stories (and How to Use Sphinn and Similar Social News Websites)
Poster: tamar - SphinnLink
Sphinn.com is basically a popularity contest.
Poster: TannerC - SphinnLink
Doug Heil Hates Sphinn
Poster: onreact - SphinnLink
Why Sphinn Needs a Dumbass Button
Poster: SearchBuzz - SphinnLink
It’s Come to This - Grovelling for a Sphinn!
Poster: Kimota - SphinnLink
Sphinn Hates Nickycakes? A Question of Sphinns Rules
Poster: slightlyShadySEO - SphinnLink
Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don?t Understand Social Networking
Poster: lorenbaker - SphinnLink
Is Sphinn Bad For The Industry?
Poster: scottclark - SphinnLink
Sphinn, Mixx and other social sites’ credibility - Voting for vapor.
Poster: scottclark - SphinnLink
Sphinn’s Wisdom: 60% success
Poster: ViperChill - SphinnLink
I am a little offended…….
Poster: promoinnovations - SphinnLink

OMG Sphinn is the greatest!

We know how great Sphinn is but we need to others to realize it. Sharing salacious stories of our enduring love for Sphinn on Sphinn is the only way to do that properly. The most heartfelt and popular examples selected by Sphinners around the world are listed below.

Top finder of “OMG Sphinn is the greatest!” post? SpostareDuro

Best Thing About Sphinn Are the Comments
Poster: incrediblehelp - SphinnLink
Thank you Sphinn & All You Wonderful SEOers
Poster: TheNanny612 - SphinnLink
Confessions of a Sphinn-o-holic
Poster: theGypsy - SphinnLink
People is What Makes Community Sites Different and Why Sphinn is Best
Poster: ANOnym - SphinnLink
Why Sphinn Matters So Much to Me
Poster: northrock - SphinnLink
Happy New Year and Thank You Sphinn!
Poster: SpostareDuro - SphinnLink
There’s Something About Sphinn
Poster: SpostareDuro - SphinnLink
Sphinn - The Social News Site Every Search Marketer Should Be Using
Poster: randfish - SphinnLink
Sphinn Wins Best Search Engine Community/Forum of 200
Poster: rustybrick - SphinnLink

Sphinns about the Sphinnerati

The top Sphinners are important don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. To keep in the know of who the top Sphinners are and the one off Sphinners who appeared briefly on the red carpet that is known as the hot list read on!

Top poster of “Sphinns about the Sphinnerati” ? DoshDosh, a regular Sphinn paparazzi that guy.

Top Sphinners - How Much Are Their Blogs
Poster: DazzlinDonna - SphinnLink
Sphinn - Many Voices or Just a Few?
Poster: DoshDosh - SphinnLink
20 Top Sphinners You Should Know
Poster: DoshDosh - SphinnLink
Top 20 Sphinn Users
Poster: onreact - SphinnLink
BUZZER! Lyndon Climbs Past Danny to #1 On All Time Top Sphinner List.
Poster: aimClear - SphinnLink
In Praise of Sphinn?s One-Hit Wonder
Poster: MattMcGee - SphinnLink

Making Sphinn a Better Place

There is always room for improvement or so the complainers say. Sphinn is a perfect peach ripe and ready to be enjoyed. Despite that these Sphinns are about ways to improve Sphinn. You might find them useful…. for myself.. Sphinn is perfect.

Top Sphinner of “Making Sphinn a Better Place” Sphinns? I’ll have to go with DoshDosh on this one as well.

Desphunn Comments should be Comments
Poster: bwelford - SphinnLink
Hiding the Sphinn Button When a Post Fails to Go Hot
Poster: DoshDosh - SphinnLink
Sphinn Google Gadget
Poster: patrickaltoft - SphinnLink
Add Sphinn Bookmarking To the Share This Wordpress Plugin
Poster: BrendanPicha - SphinnLink
Sphinn It Plugin for Wordpress! It’s now that easy to Sphinn it!
Poster: imnotadoctor - SphinnLink
The Smartest Sphinn It! FeedFlare ? Now with comments counter
Poster: HamletBatista - SphinnLink
20 Sphinns To Go Hot = 4 Day Old Content On Home Page
Poster: AndyBeard - SphinnLink

Sphinn Spam

Evil abounds, even at Sphinn it can be found in the form of spam. Some of the top Sphinners have been keeping us up to date on the state of spam and how to fight it.

Top “Sphinn Spam” poster? MattMcGee

Sphinn - Deterring Spam Whilst Rewarding Great Stories
Poster: evilgreenmonkey - SphinnLink
Fight Sphinn Spam: Win Cash And Search College Course w Kalena!
Poster: Gab - SphinnLink
Is the BBC spamming Sphinn?
Poster: patrickaltoft - SphinnLink
New Spam Fighting Tool for Sphinn Users
Poster: Michelle - SphinnLink
The Importance of Quality Content on Sphinn
Poster: evilgreenmonkey - SphinnLink
Does Sphinn Allow Infomercials?
Poster: HamletBatista - SphinnLink
Dear Sphinn: We Have a SPAM Report Button, Please Use It
Poster: MattMcGee - SphinnLink
You (Yes, YOU!) Can Help Kill Spam on Sphinn
Poster: MattMcGee - SphinnLink

Sphinn Community

Sphinn is all of us together in a community. Without everyones participation it would just be another link dump site. Thankfully these Sphinns keep us together by bring the news about the Sphinn community direct to us.

Top “Sphinn Community” poster? Its a tie between TheNanny612 and evilgreenmonkey.

SphinnCon North Carolina
Poster: evilgreenmonkey - SphinnLink
SphinnCon North Carolina - 2nd May 2008
Poster: evilgreenmonkey - SphinnLink
Shana’s Sphinn Fairytale, Will You Still Love me if I’m Not on the First Page?
Poster: aimClear - SphinnLink
Are You the Underdog in Sphinn? Where’s YOUR Vote?
Poster: martinbowling - SphinnLink
Guy Kawasaki Chooses Sphinn Stars for Latest Venture
Poster: Kalena - SphinnLink
Sphinners unite! (In the twitterverse)
Poster: laurac - SphinnLink
Are You a Sphinn User or a Contributor?
Poster: flyingrose - SphinnLink
The Sphinn Awards Are Coming!!
Poster: theGypsy - SphinnLink
The First (un)Official Sphinn Awards - Day 1
Poster: TheNanny612 - SphinnLink
The Sphinn Awards Part 2
Poster: TheNanny612 - SphinnLink

Sphinns about Sphinn News

People Sphinning about Sphinn features, Sphinn site issues, or just general Sphinn announcements keep us up to date on the latest ways to spend our time. Thank goodness its a job done well.

dannysullivan is the top Sphinner of “Sphinns about Sphinn News”. No surprise since he’s the captain of the ship.

Spam Jail, Desphinns & Other Coming Features
Poster: dannysullivan - SphinnLink
My Network Sphinns, Story Subscribe, Best Of Sphinn & More Coming
Poster: dannysullivan - SphinnLink
New Sphinn Editor Announced, Rob Kerry
Poster: dannysullivan - SphinnLink
Tips On Using Sphinn
Poster: dannysullivan - SphinnLink
Sphinn Wishlist
Poster: dannysullivan - SphinnLink
Dealing With Dupes - Which Sphinn To Kill?
Poster: dannysullivan - SphinnLink
Welcome To Sphinn!
Poster: dannysullivan - SphinnLink
Sphinn Stories By Domain
Poster: northrock - SphinnLink
Desphinn Feature Now Live
Poster: evilgreenmonkey - SphinnLink
New Sphinn Moderators Announced
Poster: evilgreenmonkey - SphinnLink
New Sphinn Feature - Desphinn - Give Us Your Feedback
Poster: Michelle - SphinnLink
Sphinn’s search
Poster: AndrewGirdwood - SphinnLink
The Mighty Desphinn Arrives - Power to the People
Poster: aimClear - SphinnLink
Editor’s Picks on Sphinn? You Decide!
Poster: evilgreenmonkey - SphinnLink
1 to 1 ratio for Sphinn/DeSphinn?
Poster: Gamermk - SphinnLink
Sphinn Profile Updates: who, what, when, where, how?
Poster: planetc1 - SphinnLink

Staring at Sphinns Navel

Self examination is an important part of any enlightened community. Sometimes that means examining things about ourselves in ways that might not matter to an outsider. Thankfully Sphinns about Sphinn, the Sphinners Sphinning, and the world as it revolves around Sphinn are not hard to find. The most important of those are listed here.

The top Sphinn Navel Gazer? Its a tough call but I have to say it has to be johnandrews. The man who has us all Sphinning for Sphinnings sake making many of us question the purpose of our existence.

Has Sphinn Traffic Increased?
Poster: UtahSEOpro - SphinnLink
Banned From Sphinn? No Worries, Your Vote Counts Either Way
Poster: mvandemar - SphinnLink
Front Page Spanning Over 50 Hours… Is The Sphinn Bar Too High?
Poster: mvandemar - SphinnLink
Breaking News: Sphinn Has PageRank
Poster: planetc1 - SphinnLink
Sphinn Now Offering Mutual *&%@ News!
Poster: SpostareDuro - SphinnLink
xposed! Sphinn, Live, Yahoo, Digg, Seomoz, even Google: All Buying Links From fantomaster! ::
Poster: fantomaster - SphinnLink
Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn to top 300
Poster: johnandrews - SphinnLink
Gooruze — Sphinn Has Competition Already?
Poster: qwerty - SphinnLink
51 Favorite StumbleUpon, Sphinn, Twitter & Facebook Posts of 2007
Poster: toprank - SphinnLink

Sphinning Out of Control

Sphinn is important, Spinn is serious, its everyones job to protect the Sphinniness of Sphinn. To keep abreast of the latest threats to Sphinn Nation keep an alert eye on the headlines. Sphinners being a vigilant bunch will let you know with a Sphinn.

The number one protector of Sphinn and submitter of popular “Sphinning Out of Control” posts? theGypsy

Thank you, we all feel safer with you keeping the watch.

Gaming Sphinn is not worth it
Poster: theGypsy - SphinnLink
Do You Actually Read What You Sphinn?
Poster: cmiddlebrook - SphinnLink
Network Solutions is Going to Scam Sphinn
Poster: Aviva - SphinnLink
Sphinn: A Dysfunctional Social Community?
Poster: EricLander - SphinnLink
Another Sphinn Spam Rant
Poster: theGypsy - SphinnLink
Can Fake Stories Go Popular on Sphinn?
Poster: ANOnym - SphinnLink

Congratulations You Found the Post Button!

Never let it be said that Sphinners are sparing with praise! One thing we all need is a good pat on the back from time to time and Spinnn provides that. If you can find the post button and submit enough of one thing long enough you can rest assured your perseverance will ber rewarded. I salute you Sphinn for saluting the top Sphinners sphinning their fingers to the bone for you! Who are those top sphinners well their all listed below in the best of “Congratulations You Found the Post Button!” as selected by Sphinn members.

Who is the best “Congratulations You Found the Post Button!” Sphinner? theGypsy tops the list…

The worst? Easily baiduyou.. that guy just doesn’t seem to get it. But never fear baiduyou I congratulate you on your effort!

Congratulations to New #1 Sphinner On Network List: Dosh Dosh!
Poster: aimClear - SphinnLink
Congrats to Marty. 100 Sphinns ‘Gone Hot’
Poster: jeffquipp - SphinnLink
Sphinn drowns in self-congratulation
Poster: baiduyou - SphinnLink
200 Sphinn Submissions - and new friends too!
Poster: theGypsy - SphinnLink
Ian (g1smd) First to Break 1000+ Sphinn Comments!
Poster: Gab - SphinnLink
10,000 Submissions to Sphinn!
Poster: Skitzzo - SphinnLink
Shana Hits 100 Sphinns Gone Hot - Part of the Fab 5
Poster: theGypsy - SphinnLink
Jeff Quipp Hits the 100 Hot Submissions Mark
Poster: swags2804 - SphinnLink

Thank you!

I hope you found the something useful in this list of the 111 most popular Sphinn posts about Sphinn!

Filed under: Business, Content Creation, Marketing, Misc — Scott @ May 21, 2008 11:33 am Sphinn Digg!

The first time I saw my Mom as a mere human

We’d always had problems but they usually stemmed from my mom being super human. She raised my brother and I by herself in California working fulltime as a critical care nurse. She did twelve hour rotating shifts at the same time finished her masters degree it was crushingly hard but she pulled through. She dealt with my violent behavior and loss of self control but she pulled through. She weathered several husbands that broke her bones, put her in the hospital, and cheated on her but she pulled through.

While she was dealing with that she put clothes on us… she taught me to cook real meals by third grade.. she believed me when I dreamed about being a pilot… she always found some time to rub my head after long shifts and listen to my rambling… she took me to Mount Palomar, Julian, to see the Spruce Goose, Disneyland… she paid for me to go to private school… she took me back in after I ran away for a year, swore at her, and argued…

I don’t think I’ll ever see her as a  mere human. I remember when I realized she was mortal and had flaws, illnesses, and problems but thats another thing altogether I think.

She’s the greatest mom I ever could hope for and I was a shit of a son.

I love you Mom.

in response to Ze

Filed under: Misc — Scott @ 8:23 am Sphinn Digg!

The first time I saw my Dad as a mere human

I was in 4th grade and asked my dad for the millionth time to take me fishing. For the millionth time he promised.. this time he was serious.. we’d totally do it… its a promise… I know I promised before but I mean it this time….

I realized then he was a lair.

in response to Ze

Filed under: Misc — Scott @ 7:56 am Sphinn Digg!

Top 7 Places to host Parasitic Pages

Are you looking for great places to set up parasitic pages on trusted domains? Of course you are!

Look no further let me give you my top seven recommendations. All of my top recommendations are indexed and poorly policed thus allowing you the maximum amount of time to promote your page.

  1. Bebo.com - Member section
    • This place is great for setting up profiles and linking back to the site you need a link to. Seems to stay fairly well indexed and not policed well.
  2. Propellor.com
    • Member section Another place were anyone can seemingly set up a profile and link willy nilly all over the web.
  3. Imeem.com
    • More member pages being used to spam offers and links to other parasitic pages.
  4. Boards.WebMD.com
    • Member Profiles again being used to promote offers. This one is seems especially good to promote pharmaceutical spam since the WebMD name is known and well trusted in the general public.
  5. iLike.com/user
    • Hey look at that more user pages that are easy to use to spam! Am I noticing a trend here?
  6. Bloglines.com/blog
    • This one is a tough one to fault. The previously mentioned ones I fault the owners for not adding noindex and noarchive the member pages. Bloglines is offering free websites which means editing or noindexing them is out of the question. Still they could do more to police their space. At anyrate until they do enjoy free reign there to promote ehat you like.
  7. Google.com/notebook
    • My last but most important pick for places to host parasitic pages….. Google Notebooks! Even if google analyzes and bans the spam from the index the simple fact that its on a google domain is important. You can leverage the trust that the google name brings to promote any offer you can imagine.

Spam Report with a Hidden Secret

For a more complete report of spam I am receiving click here. I suggest you view the linked to spam pages with a text browser or with css & javascript disabled. The pages hidden text and links will be more revealing that way. There is lots to learn that I haven’t mentioned for the curious. HINT: Investigate at the back links for the urls. Do you notice any especially crafty types of parasitic pages?

What is a parasitic page?

Parasitic pages are pages that are set up on domains are trusted and have a high page rank you don’t own for the purpose of:


  1. Getting the pages indexed and a backlink to the site you want to rank well.
  2. Getting the page ranked well and promoting an offer on that page.

FREE BONUS SITE

Digg.com! Yes digg.com believe it or not is perfect. Submit your spam site and target headline then promote that page via automation on a few indexed sites. Since digg is such a high ranking site you only need a few back links to the page your promoting so the effort should be minimal. A little effort and your digg page will be ranking in no time.

Some examples pages:


Filed under: Business, Content Creation, Marketing, Misc — Scott @ May 20, 2008 12:07 am Sphinn Digg!

Funny, Bad, or Just Plain Stupid Domains I Have Registered

I have registered a  bunch of domains that were dumb. Lots of random combinations of related keywords that made no sense in the hopes that I could “SEO” it. I mean seriously… lol.. what was I thinking? I have bought lots of domains with dashes in them which I think are bad as a rule of thumb for organic but are great for PPC. Sadly most of the ones I purchased were so I could once again.. .”SEO” it. Thank god I am not drinking that koolaid anymore.

Some of my more interesting purchases…

iLoveToPoop.com - I figured I’d make a poop report type site. What can I say I have a really low brow sense of humor. Registered this awhile ago then my son found out about it and decided he wanted it. It was his first site, he thinks the name is embarrassing now but at the time he thought it was the funniest thing ever.

AlCaydah.com - I envisioned this being a video blog of some average joe type middle aged guy who happened to have an unfortunate name, Al P. Caydah. I dunno I still think the ideas funny but it requires an odd sense of humor. i never took this anywhere because the work required to do it right would be to much for me alone.

Hacklactica.com - Honestly I love this name and I still might make it into something. I see this as a place for promoting scripts and programming news.

Jowlbangers.com - It was on the Daily Show as an adult site for people who loved men with large jowls. I registered it a minute after they mentioned it. It was funny.. then nothing came of it.

MattCuttsFacts.com - I made a Chuck Norris facts type of spoof site for Matt Cutts. Its silly… totally my sort of thing If you have any interesting Matt Cutts facts please post them. ;-)

Web-Professor.net - I hate my domain name. It has a dash.. its a dot net… its terrible. Man I was bad at buying domains back then.

Maybe I am just bad at buying domains…. what purchases have you ended up regretting or laughing at later?

* PS. I am much better at buying domains now. ;-)

Filed under: General, Marketing, Silly — Scott @ May 16, 2008 10:01 am Sphinn Digg!

When Linkbait Gets a life of its own

What happens when linkbait becomes its own story? Find out.. from lyndoman. His story made it to fox news, the Sun, and the front page of digg.

http://www.cornwallseo.com/search/index.php/2008/05/15/when-linkbait-goes-mental/

Congrats man!

Filed under: Misc — Scott @ May 15, 2008 9:53 pm Sphinn Digg!
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