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Sphinn Is In - But Is It Better Than Digg?
Sphinn, if you didn’t know, is the Digg-like website all about SEO and affiliate marketing stories. It’s a great refuge from Digg, where all the users love to bury anything that looks like SEO stuff. So there’s no need to game Digg when you can spam Sphinn legitimately and reach your perfect target market!
I noticed the easiest way to do it is to use this Wordpress plugin, the SphinnIt button.
That adds a nice Sphinn button to each post and it updates if your story is already on Sphinn. It’s at the bottom of each post here on Internet Marketing Sucks, so feel free to sphinn my stories to test out the button. 
The button is nice, but how good is Sphinn? Is it really worth it?
It depends. I’ve had some stories on there that got a few sphinns. Never made it to the home page though…
Even so, it has sent me a few visitors. And Sphinn visitors seem to stay an average of 1:20. Not bad, especially because it was 97% new visitors. However, most referrals were better, and even StumbleUpon users (over the same time period) stuck around an average of 1:35.
Hell, Digg users stayed an average of 3:32! Digg beating Sphinn was a real surprise in that regard, but Digg barely sends me any traffic at all, so Sphinn still wins in the end.
Let’s see if anything changes if one of my stories makes it to the front page… (hint hint *cough* vote for me *cough*)
P.S. Did I mention that every time I visit Sphinn, I get sucked into reading every single story on their home page? It’s not that they’re any good, just that the titles really suck you in.
P.P.S. Did I mention anything about that blue Sphinn button at the end of each post? It just says “click me” doesn’t it??
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I have not had any real traffic from Digg, I think sphinn is doing a better job for me. I am sure that this is because of the targeted audience at Sphinn compared to Digg.
Do you know how many people are using Sphinn? It would be interesting to know.
Great post!
Ya but the Digg site is owned by programmers they custom coded that site themeselves from scratch.
Sphinn is powered by Pligg a open source Program. So we kinda know where this goes, it looks kinda lame when you look at the site and you know it powered by pligg, anyone can copy this nothing special about this. anyways People who can code big web 2.0 sites are the ones that usually have big success.
If Sphinn sends me targeted traffic and Digg sends me nothing, do I care how the site is coded?
Ok, I got it, stop with the subliminal messages. I’ll push the sphinn button. I had no idea about this option. I always dig stuff up from Digg. Thanks for telling me about it.
I have tried digg however I will give this a honest try for my business
Thanks
I’ve had better luck with Spinn, but I think Digg is a better site
Diggs OK, much harder to hit the front page with anything now they have changed the Algo. Wonder if its easy with Sphinn…
6-pack - If I can get a story to the Sphinn homepage (takes about 25 votes), it can’t be that hard. That traffic isn’t going to be worth a whole lot to you though … us online marketers have such big, sexy brains, we don’t need no six-pack abs.