Remember the school yard? Remember how whenever there was a fight, every child from miles around would crowd in a circle, joining in one massive spectator sport? No other playground activity could attract as much attention, except maybe streaking naked past the staff room window with the headmaster'...

Anytime a conversation turns to content promotion via social media marketing, Digg is sure to be mentioned within the first few seconds. This is hardly surprising since Digg is the most popular of the social media bookmarking sites. Used properly, Digg can generate a ton of traffic to a website (eno...

Today is my birthday, and I decided to give you all a gift that few of you have been highly anticipating for a few months now. My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. I spent about 3 days (and nights) ...

Earlier in the week I published a post titled Skip Digg: Not All Traffic is Created Equal . In that post I mentioned that I’d follow up the post with some arguements FOR using Digg by a top Digg user. Today social media expert Muhammad Saleem tackles that very topic. You will probably be surpr...

A “splog” is a spam blog which might scrape or otherwise rip off content from other blogs. There are a myriad of motivations which drive unscrupulous publishers to steal content or create garbage posts: Organic prominence and AdSense revenue are classic spoils for plagiarizing.  Gaining...

Since I’ve criticized Sphinn in the past, let’s give credit where it’s due… It’s still a great resource for those looking for an aggregated list of our industry’s current events. Right now on Sphinn there are a few stories that catch my attention as the lunch hour...

After my last post regarding Wide Circles I exchanged emails with one of their support representatives, with their message being... We definitely do not tolerate any kind of SPAM at all Unfortunately the evidence available to me at the time not just on my own blog but elsewhere, was in stark contras...

The importance of Sphinn can’t be stressed enough. Knowing how to successfully use Sphinn, whats going on in the Sphinn community and whats the hottest Sphinn news is can be the difference between success and failure in the internet marketing community today. To ensure that my colleagues are i...

Since it’s debut last year, many of us have invested countless hours in Sphinn, SearchEngineLand’s “social news� community site for search marketing professionals. When the SEL team first released Sphinn in beta, I clearly remember thinking “CRAP, one more flippin’ site I need to keep tr...

Whilst this might be personally biased, it is my opinion that my Gary Halbert quote in my recent Players With Money Review is probably better content than 90% of what is submitted to Sphinn, and on its own might even have been front page material if posted on a blog that was actively promoting their...