I wish it weren't so, that great content would just pop all by itself. And it does, occasionally. And I think being too self promotional can also kill great content. But I thought there was a good lesson here that you've got to get beyond your own stuff, almost as you might encourage a child. Your babies need you rooting for them.

I think Sphinn should get some credit for nurturing this mindset in the search community. It was one place that promoting your own stuff, with hopes that it was good quality and newsworthy, was encouraged. That openness provided many the opportunity to toot their own horns, and when combined with promoting the content of others, resulted in open arms from the community.

If you're confident that what you have to share is worth other people's time, there's absolutely nothing wrong promoting it. If you won't promote it who would? How in the world would people know about what you've got when you don't do anything to let em know. Just don't over do it. Anything that's overly done can really be annoying.

Well the content is a queen and self promotion is her king. funny but it is true.

If the content is great it will definitely pop up, but where are you publishing your content is the main point. Though there is a good point about a little bit of self promotion. You know it goes hand in hand. There is a bit different aspect to it (not deviating from the point) to go for the social media sites and try submitting your content in them. If the content is great then no doubts your article will be published, and you wont require any sort of self promotion in that case, as that will be accomplished automatically.

I guess this makes sense.

Cheers!