Search Geeks get a Digg of their own
I've been impressed with the quality of the content being pumped out by Danny Sullivan and friends over at Search Engine Land, they do a good job covering the news and offering insight about all aspects of search marketing. I feel like Search Engine Land has emerged as the leader in the industry for timely, relevant, and quality news. Everybody loves Danny and he's got a great team of writers and contributors in the Land. On the Daily Searchcast last week I heard Danny announce his new social network for search marketing types: Sphinn. Although I haven't taken the time to go check it out myself yet, but it looks very cool and I read a glowing review by Rand at dmoz, so I better go sign up and try it out. I think it's a great idea that was overdue. There are so many search blogs and stuff going on in the industry, it's hard for any of us to keep up--especially when our jobs as search marketers take so much of our time. Like most SEOs I know, I subscribe to dozens of search blogs, but it's getting hard to sift through and find the best stuff. Digg and other social networks have the bad habit of burying good content just because it comes from SEOs. So it's great to have a place where all of us search geeks can stretch out and share our opinions about all the happening stuff in search. There are some detractors who are really just trying to get some of the attention themselves. It's funny how even the guys who rip on Sphinn are over there trying to Sphinn their blog posts. That's the search industry for you, everyone's got an opinion, but we're never too proud to pass up a good link ;)
Labels: danny sullivan, seo, social media
posted by Dave @ 8:03 AM
1 Comments:
At 1:16 PM,
Andy Beard said…
I wouldn't class myself as a detractor, just someone who picked up a "spidey sense" reading SEOmoz
There are lots of people who were beta testing who are now writing glowing reports.
I just submitted my first bug report for Sphinn... submission links don't work. What were these beta testers doing?
You can use the javascript without any problem, but the standard link used by many plugins, the bookmarklet, and the feedflare doesn't work if a story is already submitted.
p.s. you are throwing links away - you should use the greasemonkey script that adds trackback functions to blogspot within the interface.
I have written about it a few times over the last few weeks.
If you don't send a trackback, unless someone is monitoring Technorati 24/7/365, or notices your link by chance, your point of view is not spotted by as many people.
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