The Sphinn Zone

made for sphinnpageoneresultsPosted by Edward Lewis, aka pageoneresults™
SEO Consultants Directory System Administrator
Orange County, California | United States

0-22 SphinnsWho's Talking about The Sphinn Exposé?

I've listed these in chronological order as they've been submitted to me and/or "discovered" through me log files and/or via Google Alerts (gotta love those). I even have some "old school SEOs" log file sphamming me right now, stop it already! You're too phunny.

  1. Twailer Twash - A Slam Dunk On An Overly Dramatic Industry
    2008-07-31 - "Sage lays the smack down on the internet marketing industry as he brings to light the immaturity and name-calling surrounding the Edward Lewis 'hubbub'."
  2. IR Thoughts - Gaming the Gamers: The SEOs Exposed Story
    2008-07-25 - "Edward Lewis, from SEO Consultants, is writing an interesting piece on how apparently SEOs are gaming each other. We don’t take position on why he took the challenge or how he gathered the data, but we need to respect Lewis for the time and effort he has put into opening this apparent 'can of worms'."
  3. IncrediBILL's Random Rants: SEO Community in TailSphinn
    2008-07-24 - "Unfortunately, Sphinn devolved into a bunch of Sphamm and when one of their members pointed out how widespread the problem was they banned Edward. OK, Edward Lewis (pageoneresults) can push the envelope a little but it wasn't out of disrespect, he was making a very public spectacle to get them off their dead a*ses to fix the problem."
  4. WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup - Topics: ViaCom, Sem4SMB, Sphinn, and HostingCon Sold...
    2008-07-22 - "Subscription Required - Brett Tabke and Vanessa Zamora discuss news from this week in the Search Engine Marketing Industry which includes The Sphinn Exposé."
  5. Sphinn - The Sphinn Exposé - My Story About Social Media Networking
    2008-07-21 - "When pageoneresults' experiments were at their peak last week, I thought a lot of his comments were combative and abrasive and wasn't surprised when he got banned. However, he's distilled them into a very well-written piece of work that every Sphinn user should read and I hope the mods take note of his findings. What's the answer though, nofollow the upcoming listings? I think he should be allowed back too, but that's not up to me."

    The Sphinn Exposé - My Story About Social Media Networking

  6. Net Magellan - Edward Lewis Desphinns Sphinn
    2008-07-21 - "I should be in bed but I blame Edward Lewis for posting what must be the biggest expose since the Washington Post exposed Watergate. After reading it fully I will be in a better position to judge Sphinn, but my gut feeling is that they made a big mistake that will polarize the SEO community and affect Sphinn's reputation."
  7. Real Estate Webmasters Community - Social Networking - Sphinn Sphamm
    2008-07-20 - "If you haven't seen what is going on at sphinn lately check it out, pageoneresults went on a crusade to clean up spam and was actually compiling a lot of interesting data too. Looks like he managed to take down some major sphinners in the process. He has a whole section about it on his site here..."
  8. rogerd's notebook - Is Sphinn Being Spammed
    2008-07-20 - "I'm a great believer in the power of communities to generate great information by crowdsourcing. I have to admit that I've been too busy to spend a lot of time at Sphinn, a sort of Digg for SEOs/Webmasters. When I have stopped by, I've invariably found some links to cool content. Now, longtime member of the SEO community pageoneresults (aka Edward Lewis) has published data which purports to show that some Sphinn members are sabotaging the community for their own benefit."
  9. Search Engine Watch - Having Phunn with the Sphinn Sphamm Challenge
    2008-07-20 - "Deep in the bowels of the SEO Consultants Directory, pageoneresults (aka Edward Lewis), upon having emerged from his self-admitted, self-imposed social marketing seclusion, has written an account of his impressions and adventures in making his first whirlwind entrance into the social marketing scene and exploration of the world of the social blogosphere. So, is he a phearless caped crusader phighting for sanity in a phrantic marketing world gone wild, or is he just having some phunn, with too much time on his hands? Is he phorreal?"
  10. Sphinn - The SphinnBot - Auto Voting at Sphinn
    2008-07-18 - "Edward Lewis of the SEO Consultants Directory discusses the abuse of auto-voting at Sphinn and it's negative impact on the system as a whole."

    The SphinnBot - Auto Voting at Sphinn

  11. WebmasterRadio.FM - Sphinn Sphamm
    2008-07-17 - Thank you Jim Hedger from Metamend and Dave Davies from Beanstalk for having me on the show this morning, that was very interesting, my first radio interview too. I still have butterflies in me stomach.

More to follow as people ping me with the location of their articles, thank you!

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Related Social Networking Stories

From the above article titled The Sphinn Exposé - My Story About Social Media Networking by Edward Lewis, other articles are now branching out.

  1. Sugarrae - Dear SEO Community, It's Not Me, It's You
    2008-08-05 - "For those of you who have been asking, here is the truth on why I haven't blogged lately… I don't want to be known as an "SEO blogger" or as an "SEO rockstar" because frankly, being associated with the SEO "community" these days is an embarrassment at best and a liability at worst."
  2. WebProNews - Sphinn Takes On Upcoming Spammers
    2008-07-23 - "Spamming and its consequences caught up Edward Lewis of PageOneResults; his lengthy interaction with spam on Sphinn led to his banning from Sphinn and a lengthy account of the issue."
  3. Spammer, Blind Voter, Revenge Voter, Clogging Thread
    2008-07-22 - "For those veteran Mixxingbowlers, you know how this thread ended last time. Wasn't pretty, all because of one dingleberry. But like Greg, I DON'T GIVE A PHUQUE (edited for phonetics). Now this time I've decided to bring it back, but its not coming down (short of a C&D)."
  4. Search Engine Roundtable - Sadness in the Search Industry - Respect Each Other
    2008-07-22 - "I will link you over to three Sphinn threads, all with opinions and comments that might make an outsider go - wow, this is sad. In all the years that I have covered this industry, and I have been doing this a really really long time, I have never really seen it at this level. It is like three or four different events and actions have overlapped at the same time to cause an incredible about of hurt throughout the industry."
  5. These Digital Times - Growing Pains of Citizen Journalism
    2008-07-22 - "Edward Lewis, who runs online marketing company SEO Consultants, has had his account at Sphinn terminated. Sphinn is a site for internet marketing news and discussion forums which also encourages users to vote on content, like Digg, pushing a forum to the front page. Here is Lewis partially quoting his termination from Sphinn."
  6. Sending Internet Smoke SignalsI Refuse To Participate In The Vicious Nastiness Going On In Our Industry
    2008-07-21 - "For those reasons, I'll be scarce at our industry's biggest social network(s), where much of this is bubbling up. In addition, I'll be much quieter ... everywhere, including here."

    Note to Donna Fontenot aka DazzlinDonna from Edward Lewis: Your "continued support" is most needed at this time. Without the quality Sphinners in force, that place will get taken over and just won't be the same.

    I was hoping someone like yourself, a Sphinnfluencer, would send out some Internet Smoke Signals and call in the cavalry to get on board and help out with the challenges at Sphinn. Could I ask you to change your mind please?

  7. Learning SEO Basics - Social Networking - Herd Mentality - A Case Study
    2008-07-21 - "Also, take note of people like Edward Lewis. Yea, so what? He's a bit abrasive at times. Why wouldn't he be? He was basically treated as if his knowledge doesn't mean squat, even though he's used it to help everyone he's encountered.
  8. SEO Book - Unintended Consequences
    2008-07-19 - "Edward Lewis runs SEOConsultants.com, one of the more well known and trusted directories in the SEO space. When I first started learning SEO about 5 years back Edward sent me an email letting me know that something I wrote was incorrect. He was right and I made sure I fixed the issue, but he was also quite abrasive."
  9. Social Media Cash Grab - Do they care about those that help build them?
    2008-07-18 - "I want to thank all the fine folks that have supported me on sites such as Sphinn and Stumble and elsewhere as your kind words have been the fuel that drove me onwards (I know ya'll care). Unfortunately I feel an personal dilemma in supporting social media in a world where the management of such locales seem unappreciative to those that have a major role in the building process. When a website is built with user generated content, showing some love to the users generating the content, might be a good idea now and again."
  10. Sphinncter Sphamm
    2008-07-15 - Connie: "No doubt Edward does serious research. What he revealed just confirms what we knew about Sphinn." Doug Heil: "I read whalen saying you should be banned, so I guess Sullivan listens to her. They go together. I'm not sure who looks worse in that case; sullivan for kissing whalen's a** or whalen for kissing sullivan's a**. Actually, the picture of either is disgusting."

More to follow as people ping me with the location of their articles, thank you!

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Related Historical Sphinn Stories

  1. Confessions of a Sphinn-O-Holic
    2008-05-14 - "A while back I crossed over 300 submissions and now standing on the cusp of the century mark for 'Hot' submissions. And what does that mean? It means I have officially Sphunn out of control... lost into the depths of obsession that only comes with an addiction to all things search and web marketing."
  2. Sphinn All Unsphunn | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing
    2008-01-25 - "The reason I am writing this post is to inform my readers as to the reasons why a Sphinn button will no longer be on this blog, and also why even if you submit my content there, I am not going to respond to any comments that might occur on Sphinn. At the end of the day, this isn't about me being shafted - it is more about other internet marketers being shafted, and if it can happen to me, it will continue to happen to them."
  3. How to Dominate Sphinn in 4 Easy Steps
    2007-10-31 - "What do some of the top stories (Hot Topics) on Sphinn have in common? How is the editorial pie being dispensed? With some due diligence and a few pots of tea, I cracked the code."
  4. Go Sphinn Yourself
    2007-10-29 - "Here's a new one... Marty 'Sphinned' some Sphinn comments that Lyndon made. This is just getting too funny. If things weren't already freaking me out over there, now people are actually starting to treat comments on the site as a 'News Story' - which in themselves are merely a poor excuse for a message board."
  5. Stop Sphinning Your Wheels
    2007-10-07 - "I haven't been around Sphinn all that long and my early enthusiasm is waning. I have never been big in the Social Media stuff though, it seems temporal, inconsistent in nature and I wonder about the long term ROI in general... but here is some great CRAP if you want to get noticed on Sphinn, in no particular order... it all works!"
  6. A Sphinn Spam Story
    2007-09-29 - "The gang at Sphinn had just as soon released an announcement about leaving Beta, and the Spammers decided they should go live as well."

More to follow as people ping me with the location of their articles, thank you!

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