- Agustín Vazquez-Levi (whose Canalytics team recently became the 12th company in North America [and the first company in Canada] to be accepted as one of Google's Google Analytics Authorized Consultants) wrote a post about how he submitted a link to Mahalo and saw it appear in a non-related page result; thus, he inadvertently (but easily) spammed Mahalo. He pointed it out to the site admin, and what was Oggy's reward for being so honest and helpful? He got his link removed, of course. Maholo, indeed!
- EGOL sent me this article about Google's quest to know more about us than we know ourselves. In a recent interview, Eric Schmidt stated that "The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as 'What shall I do tomorrow?' And 'What job shall I take?' " Would anyone else be surprised if the answer to both questions was "Viagra"?
- Lisa Barone is a big fat liar, because she said that "Your Boss is Not Your Friend." Rand is totally my friend! Sure, lately he'd rather hang out with Googlers than his Mini-Me, and okay, sometimes when I ask him non-work stuff ("Hey, how was your weekend buddy?") he barks "Go write a blog entry!" at me, but we're still as close as ever...
- Next Thursday and Friday (July 26 and 27) is SES Travel Edition right here in sunny and hot/cool and gray (depending on the hour) Seattle. Rand will be out of town, so I have the pleasure of speaking on two panels, Travel Writing & Content Creation and Pack Your Tool Bag: Widgets, APIs, Maps & More.
- Matt McGee talks about Sphinn (spin? spfinn? spin-NUH? damn this web 2.0 spelling!) and the "Sphinn Effect" (the traffic bump he got as a result of one of his blog posts appearing on the front page of Sphinn). My question is: Are top Sphinn users called sphinnsters? Do they wear sphinndex shorts while watching Sphinnderella and eating sphinnach? Okay, I'm done now.
By: Rebecca Kelley
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And now, a little roundup of stories from the past few days that have either been brought to my attention or that I came across and thought were interesting:
I suggest sphinncters for Sphinn users :P ... Does Digg community call SEO members assholes? No we are sphinncters! Much more sophisticated than assholes :P
Totally agree, if you're going to label people something, atleast make it unique and self explanatory when heard
Wow - Jason's comment on that Mahalo post is pretty dire. He openly admits that you can spam mahalo (which he has done before to be fair!), doesn't apologise and then asks if anyone can think of a way of improving it? Well how about adding the guy's t-shirts site onto the t-shirts page for starters!?
It doesn't matter if it's human edited or not if the humans doing the editing are morans.
Hehe... all your sphinnerisms crack me up - perhaps you and Rand should put together an SEO mocumentary called 'This is Sphinnal Tap'
In the documentary, the sphinns would go to 11. :)
And it would take ages before the best posts would make it to the front-page of the site... purely because they'd get lost on their way there :)
As long as we can also refer to Sphinn spammers as 'Sphinncters', I'm fine with all of the above. One thing that's great about Sphinn traffic, as I think Rand pointed out in his review, is that it's targeted among other SEOs, so it seems like a great way to build your name in the industry. I think Danny's hit a home run with this one.
Now if I can just find the time to write a few good blog posts! :)
Maybe we can refer to some spinners as sphinebreated.
hey hey, i want that game!
I am enjoying sphinn and it's become a daily visit now, although for a seo related site, you'd think they'd sort out the site search engine - it's bollocks.
I'm going to move to the Motor City, then I could be a Detroit Sphinner...
*Thank you, thank you; I'm here every night...*
Come over to the dark side Rebecca....
Only if there are cookies.
No cookies but good champagne!!!
Haha, I can't dispute that. :)
Pity I have to miss the travel ses this year... guess next meet is San Jose... and a night in ChinaTown in SF with the food crew!!!
Ahh, but the big question is, will you be in Vegas for PubCon?
still up in the air on that one.... Brett wants me to speak and they killed the arbitrage panel so....
I'll be in vegas Frank - and I won't be in San Jose - if that sways your decision at all ;-)
Now that's not fair.... lol... guess I am going to Vegas!
Oggy's such a spammer. Jason never responded to our comments, where we gave him excellent advice, like, hire more people.
Oh well. Thanks for the GAAC plug, we're real excited!
Speaking of Dr. Evil / mini-me, did Rand's bald hat ever show up? If so, you know what you have to do...
Hey Rebequita!
update: I resubmitted the link again, and this time they got it in the t-shirts page. Let's hope they decide that it's "relevant" enough to show up on the regular t-shirt results.
Thanks for the GAAC mention we're extremely proud of that achievement!