Last week Danny Sullivan and his team over at Search Engine Land launched Sphinn. Sphinn is basically the new “Digg” style social media site for the search engine and internet marketing community. For a longtime the Digg community has shot down and shunned any type of submissions regarding SEO. Well ha Digg community, us SEO’s have our own Digg now, and I have to say it is much better!

Shortly after the launch of Sphinn, SquareOak made a great post on how to add Sphinn bookmarking to the “Share This” WordPress plug-in. Now, “Share This” is a great plug-in, but I prefer to promote a targeted social booking marking button directly on my posts. Why? It is targeted to your audience you are writing for, people can see right away how popular the post is, and if they like it all they have to do is hit the button and BAM another vote!

Now if you write about search engine or internet marketing wouldn’t it be nice (a song comes into my mind) to have your own Digg style “Sphinn It” button on every post ?

The answer of course is YES and I am proud to announce the “Sphinn It” Button WordPress Plugin! Thanks goes out to the programmer, Luc Ibata, from eVisibility who worked on this feverishly. I think that this will be a very useful tool for bloggers everywhere.

Sphinn Plugin Installation for WordPress:

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To install Sphinn plugin follow the specific instructions provided by Luc Ibata.

Remember: BACKUP - just in case.

This version of Sphinn plugin Works with WordPress Version: 1.5 and WordPress Version: 2.0

You can download the plugin here, http://www.evisibility.com/upandown/sphinn_it.rar

1. Upload the plugin to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.

2. Activate the Plugin:

3. Access the Plugin Panel in your Admin Panel

4. Scroll down through the list of Plugins to find the newly installed Plugin (if not visible, start from the beginning to check to see if you followed the instructions properly and uploaded the file correctly).

5. Click on the Activate link “Sphinn It” to turn the Plugin on.

I will work on other versions, for example the one which shows Sphinn after each post instead of at the top.