Well mate, I'd say the second example is due to the fact that you're linking to the story on sphinn and it's not linking back without a nofollow attribute (because it didn't go hot).
Sean Mauger
· 1 year ago
I have often pondered this topic..
from a users point of view, the likes of sphinn, digg, reddit etc.. are the places where they first discover the content, users will often forward and link to the actual aggregate site rather than the content’s source page and this can also be true for where they leave their comments.
I've read many a linkbait where digg and sphinn has more comments than the actual source site, i suppose its the nature of the beast, while people can still continue to find interesting content on sphinn, then sphinn will continue to grow in popularity within the users mind. ultimately benefiting from the hard work of the original source..
Like Chew said, this is not a criticism of sphinn, more of an observation :-)
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from a users point of view, the likes of sphinn, digg, reddit etc..
are the places where they first discover the content,
users will often forward and link to the actual aggregate site rather than the content’s source page and this can also be true for where they leave their comments.
I've read many a linkbait where digg and sphinn has more comments than the actual source site, i suppose its the nature of the beast, while people can still continue to find interesting content on sphinn, then sphinn will continue to grow in popularity within the users mind. ultimately benefiting from the hard work of the original source..
Like Chew said, this is not a criticism of sphinn, more of an observation :-)