Sphinn for SEO/SEM and the Like

Posted by Pixelhead

This morning I got my email update from Alister Cameron, the Blogologist, and was informed that Alister had joined the new social network Sphinn. Sphinn(not sure how it is pronounced) is a Digg like site for SEO/SEM and the like which was launched by Danny Sullivan. If you are familiar at all with the world of Digg, you already know how unfavorable they look on the world of SEO. Sphinn Logo

Alister, who has a story which discourages Linking to Wikipedia, and has quite a few ~~Diggs~~ Sphinns and brings up a good point about linking to Wikipedia, recommends and belongs to Sphinn. Any site that Alister recommends, has to be at least worth looking at if not joining.
So I took a look at Sphinn, and thought what the heck. Signing up was easy, and it allowed me to add most of the other networks that I belong to as well. This might have been a bit of a pain, but I just went to My Networks page and pasted in the info for each of the Social Networking sites.

I am not going to go into all the features of Sphinn at the moment,(especially since I have no idea) but here are a couple of Sphinn links to check out when you get a chance.

A blog post that is something like a top 10 reasons to use Sphinn post Sphinn - The Social News Site Every Search Marketer Should Be Using.
The Sphinn Help page.
Danny’s Spinn Tips.
Sphinn Tools such as Badges and Buttons.

Be you an SEO professional or a person seeking info about SEO, check the site out and see what you think.

Here is the link to my Sphinn Profile.

Written by Pixelhead on July 17th, 2007 with 5 comments.
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Steven
#1. July 21st, 2007, at 7:02 PM.

Sphinn seems to be growing pretty fast and definitely has some good stuff already. I think it’s a great place for marketers because it’s not so overcrowded (yet) like Digg.

Pixelhead
#2. July 21st, 2007, at 10:02 PM.

Steven, In my short time using it, I have been really impressed with the quality of the posts and information. I for one will be a regular visitor to Sphinn…hope to see you there too.

Rkmishraseo
#3. October 24th, 2007, at 10:08 AM.

Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO, is the process getting a higher rank in search results in order to get increased amount of visitors to a website. Higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that a user will visit that site. SEO helps to ensure that a site is not only accessible to a search engine but also improves the chances that the site will be found by the search engine. Search engine optimization plays a vital role because each search engine follows a different algorithm and has different rules for web page elements, submissions and metadata.
However, the question is why search engine ranking and thus search engine optimization is so important? Researches reveal that consumers are more likely to purchase products from sites that they find through search engines because a visitor who reaches your site through search engine is more likely to be seeking for your product and less likely to be a window shopper. The visitors who come to your website are the ones who have targeted you. They have been looking for your product or service. Hence you can say they are highly targeted customers thus the conversion rate is high and the effort minimum.

Chris
#4. November 28th, 2007, at 12:32 AM.

I had never heard of Sphinn before this post and I am excited to look into it and see all that it can offer. What do you think its best use in an SEO world would be?

Pixelhead
#5. November 28th, 2007, at 2:25 PM.

Chris, The best use of Sphinn in an SEO world would be to create some groovy link bait posts that have an SEO slant. Articles with some original content that have something unique to offer. In this case, Sphinn would be a second tier social media site that I would hope would help in the primary social media sites. But I would not count on Digg, since SEO related articles don’t fare well and have a tendency to be buried.

Let me know if I can help you in any way Chris. I do have a few suggestions after looking at your site.

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