According to their web page, Sphinn is “a social site for search and interactive marketers. It is designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others.”
Sphinn is similar to Digg in terms of search marketing. If you want to broaden your online marketing and visibility, this is definitely the site for you! Despite its weird spelling, it is pronounced as “Spin”.
Danny Sullivan launched Sphinn in late 11th of July 2007. The site has a lot of exceptional functionality despite its newness. It has easy to use features and not so complex interface. Sphinn accepts a variety of content, discussion topics, and forums from site users.
The site takes after the same interface and almost the same use as Digg where users submit a story and other users can vote on whether they like it or not; they can “sphinn” it for yes, and “desphinn” it for no. Once a story is “sphunn” a lot of times, it will be featured in the front page of Sphinn and is immediately visible to anyone who logs in to the home page except for posts submitted to the Water Cooler category, which no longer have the ability to hit the main page. Stories submitted to Sphinn can also be discussed by members on the comment portion of each post.
Here are the different important tabs you can see at the Sphinn interface. The Hot News tab is the first tab you will see when you come to the site. It serves as the site’s home page. In these page, you will see news stories and discussions that the Sphinn admin have chosen to feature.
The next tab which is the Comments tab is obviously for the comments all Sphinn user make in real time. You can freely link it to your site as well. The good thing about this is that you can choose in this page which comment you want to get involved with. It has a neat rss feed and a crisp timeline to boast. It gets updated every time a user comments on a blog.
Submit News Tip is the super tab where you read news stories. Do you have a news story you want to share to the site? You have a lot of options in which way you are going to share your own piece. For newbies who have not joined yet, it has an awesome option that you can always submit to the news editors via Twitter. Include “tip @sphinn” in your tweet and our editors will review your link as if you submitted it directly at Sphinn.
The Discussion tab is somewhat like a forum where you can interact with other users with the same level of business and interest. You can always start a topic yourself, give the topic a title and classify it in the right category.
Here are the top features that you’ll love when using Sphinn with your online business…
Getting Started at Sphinn is such an interesting experience for everyone. You can always read the articles on Sphinn without setting up a profile, but for you to leave comments or “sphinn/depshinn” anything, you need to join. On your profile, you can either use an avatar or a profile picture, and you can add in all your personal infos like your IM names like AIM or MSN in your social media profiles like Facebook and Delicious.
Do You Love snooping on Your Friends? Prospect Clients Perhaps? Your Competitor as well? Snooping is a very interesting process on Sphinn. Users that love to check the home page for new posts and love to interact with other users can easily do so. It lets you monitor in real time what others are posting or submitting. Sphinn also helps keep track of all of your social networking profiles since you have an option to link it to them.
The What’s New page is where you can find the freshest content updated in real time. The more experienced you are in online business as well as in marketing the more you will be able to decipher what is good and what is not with the kind of content you encounter.
Now, how do you submit an article to Sphinn? How does Sphinn work best with your online business? Making use of outstanding networking tools will definitely help you achieve your business goals in the process. This platform gives you the chance to show off your abilities and achievements. A business that has good credibility and is run by someone who knows what he is doing is surely the one who succeeds. Credibility indeed leads to better relationships between entrepreneur and prospect customers and loyal customers as well.
This shows up on search engines which makes your business findable when searched. It is also highly established in Google. This is definitely good news since Google is the most commonly used search engine. In this way your business will rank well eventually. Just never forget to set your profile to public otherwise the search engines will not be able to list you.
There are a lot of areas in your profile where you should provide all the necessary details in order to describe in detail the kind of business that you have, what markets you cater to and how you will be able to help them. You will need to add details about you and your business in your profile.
Choose the best photo that will make an impression on the users that when they see that icon they will think of your business. This is commonly called branding. By maximizing the use of your profile this will help other related business to link to your profile as well. Making use of the updates you should be posting regularly by syncing it to other social sites like Facebook and Twitter, this will increase the impact through the systems of all three sites!
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