Sphinn: New Topics

Text Messaging: Where The Volume And The Dollars Are Today

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:11:34 PDT

Eventually the cell phone companies will integrate web enabled interfaces into their text interfaces

1 Vote(s)

CNET to be sold for $1.8 Billion to CBS at Guru Of Sales

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:06:57 PDT

check out the story!

1 Vote(s)

The Definitive YouTube Resource List

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:05:35 PDT

YouTube has become one of the most used websites on the internet with millions of unique visitors every day. We've gathered a list of some of the best articles, and online tools to help you make the most of YouTube. So, whether you are an aspiring f

1 Vote(s)

Community: The Human Element of SEO Success

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:01:18 PDT

Every business needs happy customers and/or interested observers to help spread the business name to friends. This human element of marketing is part of the SEO Success Pyramid, and can come in several forms: buzz/viral marketing, word-of-mouth, com

4 Vote(s)

How Search Engine Redirect Users To Country-Specific Sites

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:59:07 PDT

Interesting post on how the various engines handle people attempting to go to the .com from outside the US (sparked by Yahoo's late adoption of this policy.)

3 Vote(s)

My Definition Of SEO and How The Death Will Play Out

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:57:55 PDT

the SEO death drama continues, with more from shoemoney. A few days ago I wrote about how SEO has no future. There were a lot of people who agreed and then a lot of confused people. After writing the post I thought for a bit perhaps even I was co

2 Vote(s)

Twitter Withdrawals

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:52:19 PDT

How did you feel when Twitter was down Wednesday night? And what did you do? Does Twitter feel indispensable to you now?

3 Vote(s)

The 4 Big Problems With Outsourcing SEO

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:49:01 PDT

There certainly isn't any shortage of self styled "expert SEO companies" out there, which continue to promise search engine glory. The real problem here is that the average business owner or entrepreneur, either just doesn't understand what SEO is,

1 Vote(s)

How to Bury Negative Online Mentions of You - Intermediate Level Tactics

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:43:01 PDT

While the tactics mentioned may be enough to push some negative online mentions of you or your business to the second page of the search results or lower, in other cases they will not. The question then becomes; what else can you do when the initial

3 Vote(s)

Ask.com Grows Audience by 11% Overnight!

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:40:58 PDT

Andy Beal writes..Here's a riddle for you. How many employees does it take to grow Ask.com's audience by 11%? Answer: Apparently just 20. It's no joke! Ask.com has just announced it will acquire Lexico, owners of Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.c

1 Vote(s)

French Translations by Translation Services USA - English to French Translations

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:28:20 PDT

Translation Services USA offers professional translation services for English to French and French to English language pairs. We also translate French to and from any other world language. We can translate into over 100 different languages. In fact,

1 Vote(s)

Laptop Computers Store

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:27:50 PDT

Find the latest in light weight Laptop Computers. Compare notebooks,sub-notebooks,tablet and pocket computers.

1 Vote(s)

The greatest example of linkbait............ever?!

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:26:47 PDT

Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir!

13 Vote(s)

11 Ways to Get Back at Your Ex-Wife

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23:22 PDT

@Rishil and @BrentDPayne talk SEO, Jack Daniels, Ex-Wives and Secret Service. The Wacky Side of SEO, it's great for some LOLing

5 Vote(s)

Strange And Weird Social Networking Sites

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:18:46 PDT

List of some of the weirder social networks

1 Vote(s)

Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:06:02 PDT

Matt Cutts writes... The other day I realized that I enter my haircut appointments into Google Calendar, so I can search for "haircut OR (the place I get my hair cut)" and see when I've gotten my hair cut.

4 Vote(s)

How to Create Printer Friendly Pages Without Creating Duplicate Content

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:02:22 PDT

When it comes to issues of duplicate content, one of the most frequent offenders is the "printer friendly" page. Just about any kind of site can benefit from creating printer friendly versions of their pages, but improper implementation of these pag

7 Vote(s)

SEO Has No Future? Think Again!

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:57:49 PDT

Dave Wallace writes... I am so weary of non-SEO types who have some measure of influence spouting off their opinion of what SEO is, what it isn't, whether it is growing or declining and the like. It is no different then when celebrities use their cl

7 Vote(s)

Wikipedia Traffic Grows 8,000% in 5 Years Due to Search Referrals

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:53:08 PDT

"Nielsen Online has released data showing that Wikipedia's 8,000% growth in the past 5 years is attributed to search. Really? Is that what happens when Google ranks all of your pages as #1? I had no idea."

9 Vote(s)

Icahn Trumps Yahoo Board: You're Fired!

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:48:53 PDT

What's the connection between Carl Icahn's proxy battle and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy? You'll only find the answer here. Plus you'll see the only "Marvel" comic book cover with Carl Icahn as a superhero or supervillain.

2 Vote(s)

Is Email Marketing Dead?

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:41:12 PDT

What is email marketing, anyway? Is it highly valuable content delivered to readers who have requested it? Or is it thinly veiled product/service offers arriving in your recipients inbox? Is email marketing dying or evolving?

1 Vote(s)

5 Reasons to Let Others Do the Dirty SEO Work

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:40:19 PDT

Now comes the time for those to clean up the mess who are responsible for it in the first place. Make sure to concentrate on the fun stuff in SEO.

4 Vote(s)

Quiz: Are You An Online Jackass?

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:36:59 PDT

Everyone has a little online jackass in them; some of us add people on Facebook too soon, some of us beg for votes on Digg, some make white whines on Twitter. But these behaviors can lead to more annoying habits, like constantly bugging people to bl

1 Vote(s)

Google introduces landing page loading time as a Quality Score factor for AdWords

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:34:58 PDT

the Quality Score is influenced by several factors, like keyword's click-through rate on Google, the relevance of the keyword to its ad group, the landing page quality, account's historical performance, and other relevant factors. Among these releva

1 Vote(s)

Does Your Blog Have an Effective Tag Line?

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:34:35 PDT

Jennifer Slegg writes, "A tag line is a critical part of any business venture, whether it is a Fortune 500 company or your personal blog. It can be used to segment you, or what your company does, better than your name or company name can do. But man

1 Vote(s)

eBay using Craigslist trademarks in Yahoo Search Ads

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:31:22 PDT

Navigational searches on Yahoo for "www.craigslist.org" or "craigslist.org" have been bringing up eBay textads featuring hyperlinked craigslist URLs, designed to confuse and misdirect users seeking craigslist onto eBay sites.

1 Vote(s)

What I learned about SEO from Celebrity Jeopardy!

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:29:40 PDT

As you can see Norm MacDonald playing the character of Burt Reynolds transforms the category in Celebrity Jeopordy!, on purpose for comedy reasons. In my analogy Google is going to be the Burt Reynolds of your search, however instead of finding the

1 Vote(s)

Realtime results for Chiropractic on Twitter

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:29:29 PDT

It's no secret that I love Twitter. You can follow my personal tweets @chiropractic or you may want to follow chiropractic news tweets @planetc1 or (if you are a chiropractor) even localized chiropractic classified advertising @ChiropracticAds.

4 Vote(s)

Google Deals A Blow To Anti-Scientology: Anonymous’ AdSense Acc Canceled

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:27:11 PDT

According to the Register, Google has killed the AdSense account of Enturbulation, a site ran by Anonymous, the group that's got their panties twisted in a knot over Scientology.

2 Vote(s)

Keeping SEO Staff Motivated and Driven

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:15:59 PDT

Links represent the largest factor of the ranking system for the most popular search engines. Yet link building can be tedious, and mind-numbing. How do you motivate your link marketers? With the proper incentives, you can keep your link marketer

2 Vote(s)

Leapfroggs Getting Greener!

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:10:05 PDT

The Froggers are getting greener & greener!

1 Vote(s)

Minnesota: State of Big Brand Social Media

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:58:24 PDT

Big brand CEOs hear "Facebook home run this" & "YouTube revolution that," but try convincing any serious traditional enterprise-project stakeholder that social media hoopla will actually generate measurable ROI and isn't downright dangerous. Minn

4 Vote(s)

Word of Mouth on the Web - A Real Life Example

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:54:47 PDT

Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends writes, "Those of us who spend a fair amount of time online love our shiny new toys. We seem to always need something new to try out. And one of the shiniest toys these days is Twitter.com. But the question I

3 Vote(s)

A look at Googles ridiculous Adwords restrictions

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:40:21 PDT

The whole thing is a mess of half hearted and badly enforced rules that are full of loopholes. If Google is doing this so it can't be seen to profit from these industries then why not give ad revenue from ads to gambling and alcohol addiction charit

7 Vote(s)

Mixx - This Tweet’s For You

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:33:20 PDT

You'll be happy, ecstatic, overjoyed to find that any story, photo or video that you Mixx publicly can now be simultaneously Tweeted. ;-)

6 Vote(s)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for PHP and Joomla

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:13:42 PDT

The blog post is a referring post to good resources for Search Engine Optimization - SEO for Joomla and PHP. The tutorial like post discusses issues like: making Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs, converting all .php extensions into .html files, gen

1 Vote(s)

Why www.arsecommerce Is A Bad URL

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:08:02 PDT

An interesting post that would get a Sphinn from me for the inclusion of an arse gag if nothing else (although that's not the headline they used). But it is worth reading for more than just that as it has some great info on why shorter URLs tend to

8 Vote(s)

Is it Worth $299 Per Year to Join Yahoo Directory?

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:06:48 PDT

Yahoo Directory is considered the creme de la creme in the human edited directory and search field, and is one of the major authority listings I (and many other SEO's) routinely tell clients and readers to join.

6 Vote(s)

Use Twitter to Solve World Hunger and Bring Our Troops Home from Iraq!

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:02:37 PDT

Twitter will also clean the grime from filthy pots and pans. Act now, and i'll throw in this powerful shammy that doubles as a rotisserie oven!

6 Vote(s)

Digital Point Forums Review

Thu, 15 May 2008 05:59:46 PDT

Rich Sage reviews the Digital Point Forums. With 50,000+ regular users and over 7 Million posts, the Digital Point Forums can be a goldmine for your Internet Marketing success! If you are looking to make money online, there are just a few forums t

1 Vote(s)