Most of you are not yet familiar with Sphinn, since it was launched in July, so let me describe it in a simple way for all of you to understand. Let’s start with Digg. Digg is an established social bookmarking website with probably thousands of submits every day and the community is so huge it overgrows itself. So it’s wonderful and drives a lot of traffic…but why do I barely get any diggs then? Because it’s overcrowded and there’s no targeted audiance for my blog. The only way to get to the front page is to post about a weird dude sticking his penis in a skull.
Sphinn is Digg++, I can’t tell it better. Sphinn is like Digg but much much better organized and it’s concentrated on fewer topics so there’s more chance for you to attract visitors than you would ever on Digg. I’m not saying that just for the sake of it, I know that because Sphinn still, to this very day, drives me traffic from a blog post about StumbleUpon (Don’t Buy Traffic, Use StumbleUpon) that went HOT and I got only one digg on Digg, and even that was by me.
Take a look at the table below. It shows refferers (except search engines) for this month and it’s 21st August today. Sphinn’s traffic is marked with red color and Digg’s traffic with green color.
This is a screenshot from my cPanel’s Awstats. Now tell me where’s more sane to publish technical articles, to Digg or to Sphinn where you actually have people looking to read these stuff and post consctructive comments. There’s also a must read an article Sphinn - The Social News Site Every Search Marketer Should Be Using published by randfish from Seomoz.
EDIT: August 24, 2007
Thanks to TheMadHat for suggesting us the video about Digg called What If A Business Meeting Was Like Digg?. You should see this!
Why I Preffer Sphinn Over Digg…
Most of you are not yet familiar with Sphinn, since it was launched in July, so let me describe it in a simple way for all of you to understand….
August 21, 2007
Of course you will like Sphinn more than Digg. The newer site is smaller in scope so more people will see your blog posts. But, at the same time, it you would hit the frontpage of Digg, then you would likely have had 2 or 3 thousand references.
But, there isn’t much interesting on Sphinn if you are not a blogger of some flavor. For the niche, Sphinn may be a great site. But, it isn’t better than Digg for the more mainstream links.
And, please use a spell checker. The word is spelled “prefer”. It is most obvious when it is part of a title.
August 21, 2007
It’s easier to come to the front page of Sphinn than to the front page of Digg. I find Digg visitors very hard to attract, probably because of the topics I write about and that’s why I like Sphinn more. It gives me what I want.
Thanks for correcting me, typo fixed.
Thanks for the tips!
I’m going to have to agree with you on this one. Digg is so full of noise and childish behavior it’s almost like surfing MySpace. Sphinn actually has some meaningful conversations that are attached to it and it isn’t full of spam (yet). For a good example of Digg, check out What if a business meeting was like Digg (NSFW). It’s the most entertaining video I’ve seen in a while! Good post!
Aaron
August 24, 2007
Janet, thank you for visiting!
TheMadHat, exactly! and to back this up you should see comments on Digg about my post. The only rational person in there was Steve who posted first post here.
Thanks for the video, it’s hilarious. I’ll add this to the post! Everybody should see this!
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