Mighty­funk is a col­lec­tion of news arti­cles and their excerpts from around the world regard­ing the var­i­ous fields of design. It is an aggre­ga­tor of head­lines from design-related news web­sites and blogs. At its core, it doesn’t oper­ate any dif­fer­ent than Yahoo Pipes, iGoogle, Google News, and many other news-related web­sites. It oper­ates by remotely skim­ming pop­u­lar design web­sites, and pulls any new con­tent directly from their RSS feeds.

If you have any ques­tions or con­cerns, or would like to sub­mit your web­site for review, please feel free to con­tact me.

Adding Your Web­site to Mighty­Funk Design News:

If you would like your web­site to be reviewed for inclu­sion in the Mighty­Funk aggre­ga­tion list, please con­tact me with a valid URL and RSS feed and I will review your web­site shortly. My aim is to include rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion with an empha­sis on qual­ity of con­tent. Due to these stan­dards, not every blog or news web­site will be accepted.

Guide­lines for accep­tance include (but are not lim­ited to) the following:

• No mal­ware or viruses.
• No ille­gal soft­ware links or downloads.
• No illicit activities.
• No pornog­ra­phy or adult-related content.
• High fre­quency in writ­ing and post­ing articles.
• High-quality arti­cles (infor­ma­tive, well-designed, insight­ful, and useful.)
• Proper gram­mar.
• Topic rel­e­vancy.
• Web­site speed (slow web­sites will not be indexed.)
• Well-formed RSS feed accord­ing to standards.
• Proper W3C markup.

Copy­right and SEO Concerns:

There are some valid con­cerns about this web­site reduc­ing traf­fic to other web­sites. My sta­tis­tics show that this web­site actu­ally increases read­er­ship for these asso­ci­ated web­sites. As Mighty­Funk only post excerpts, not only does it pro­vide addi­tional links back to the orig­i­nal author web­sites result­ing in increased back­links, traf­fic, and vis­i­bil­ity, but it also improves search engine opti­miza­tion for those web­sites. In many ways, it works bet­ter than the old SEO method of list­ing your web­site in direc­to­ries, and it is com­pletely free.

In the past, SEO experts were con­cerned about penal­ties for dupli­cate con­tent. Con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, Matt Cutts of Google recently explained there is no penalty for dupli­cate con­tent. In this video, he explains that hav­ing con­tent else­where can actu­ally be very help­ful to your audience.

If you still have con­cerns about this con­tent or copy­right issues, please let me know imme­di­ately and I will remove your web­site from the index­ing as soon as possible.