The Sphinn Blog

Goodbye Sphinn … Hello Marketing Land!

Matt McGee — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:50:07 +0000

We’re thrilled to share this news: Sphinn will soon be re-launched as a new, editorial site called Marketing Land! Since 2007, Sphinn has been covering anything and everything related to online marketing via a combination of user-generated content and staff submissions. Now, Marketing Land gives us the chance to continue doing that in a fully [...]

Welcome to Sphinn’s (Nine) New Editors!

Matt McGee — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:13:52 +0000

If you’ve been on the site this week, you’ve probably noticed that green “Editor” banner on several new avatars. That’s because we’ve added a whopping nine (9) new editors to the Sphinn team. In alphabetical order, they are: Melissa Fach Greg Finn Hugo Guzman Julie Joyce Jaan Kanellis AJ Kohn Nick LeRoy James Svoboda Brian [...]

Second (and final) Call for Sphinn Editor Volunteers

Matt McGee — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:25:54 +0000

As we mentioned a month ago, Sphinn is looking to add new editors to our hard-working crew. If you think this is something that sounds like fun (it is) and have at least a few hours of free time each week to work with us, read on for more about what the job entails and [...]

Coming Soon: New Editors … Interested in Joining Us?

Matt McGee — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:23:45 +0000

As we look forward to 2011, one piece of our plan includes expanding our Sphinn Editorial staff. Starting in January, we’ll be looking to add new editors, but you can speak up now if you’re interested in being part of the team! To do so, please use the contact Sphinn form (choose “Something Else!” from [...]

New On Sphinn: Discussion Of The Week

Matt McGee — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:26:48 +0000

One of the most common requests from our 2010 member survey earlier this year was to bring discussions back to Sphinn. We did that when Sphinn 3.0 launched a month ago. The ability to start a conversation with other members, without having to submit a story/article link, is something we want to encourage. Twitter and [...]

Best Sphinn Comments Now Featured On Search Engine Land

Matt McGee — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:39:55 +0000

We’ve been promoting the best and most popular Sphinn stories over on Search Engine Land since the beginning of August. I write a weekly recap each Monday, and those recaps have evolved in just a couple months from a simple list of stories that reached Sphinn’s home page to a fuller look at all Sphinn [...]

New: Submit News Tips via Twitter

Matt McGee — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:23:29 +0000

Starting today, you can now submit a news tip to Sphinn via Twitter. You’re proably already using Twitter to share great links with your friends and peers, so why not make sure the Sphinn staff sees them, too? Here’s how: When sharing a great link, just add tip @sphinn in your tweet, and it’ll show [...]

Introducing Sphinn 3.0

Matt McGee — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:26:00 +0000

All of us at Sphinn are happy to unwrap Sphinn 3.0 today. As you look around the site, you’ll notice some new graphics here and there, some tweaks, and a variety of what we’d call ‘minor’ changes. There are two more important changes that I want to mention here: 1. User voting is gone. This [...]

Sphinn Says Goodbye To Voting

Danny Sullivan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:49:57 +0000

When Sphinn launched in July 2007, I wanted to create a place where search and internet marketers could submit stories and vote on them in the style of Digg but without feeling unwelcome. At the time, stories about SEO in particular were routinely buried at Digg. The site launched, and we had a good response [...]

New Emphasis: Voting Patterns and Unexceptional Content

Matt McGee — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:30:55 +0000

Imagine if every news article and column that Search Engine Land publishes was submitted to Sphinn. And imagine if all of the Search Engine Land writers pinged one another via email and instant messaging asking for votes on Sphinn. With a couple dozen writers involved, that group of people could push anything it wanted to [...]