As a blogger or content marketer, your job doesn’t stop when you finish your content. You can use these social bookmarking and new sites to drive targeted traffic to your content.
This is an up-to-date list of the top niche specific social websites. There are also general social media sites that have subcategories to cater to your niche.
(NOTE: There aren’t any lame, abandoned sites listed (Ex. Thoof). All of these sites have good traffic sending potential.)
| Site Name | Niche | PageRank | Alexa Rank | Klout Score | DoFollow |
| Agent B |
Deals | 3 | 196,931 | N/A | Yes |
| Armchair GM | Sports | 4 | 197 | 10 | No |
| Autospies |
Auto | 5 | 49,321 | 10 | No |
| BallHyped |
Sports | 5 | 284,294 | 10 | No |
| Bizsugar |
Business | 6 | 5,534 | 59 | Yes |
| BlogEngage | Blogging | 5 | 7,861 | 51 | Yes |
| Blokube | Blogging | 3 | 17,465 | 42 | Yes |
| BuzzFlash |
Politics | 7 | 9,488 | 59 | Yes |
| Care2 |
Social Action | 7 | 1,901 | 64 | Yes |
| Chictini |
Fashion | 5 | 77,209 | 35 | Yes |
| Dealigg |
Deals | 4 | 7,326 | 30 | No |
| Design Float |
Design | 5 | 6,752 | 10 | Yes |
| Developer’s Niche |
Development | 1 | 120,406 | – | Yes |
| Digg |
General | 8 | 168 | 77 | Yes |
| DNHour |
Domains | 4 | 77,054 | 10 | No |
| DotNetKicks |
Programming | 6 | 42,960 | 41 | No |
| DZone |
Programming | 6 | 2,791 | 63 | Yes |
| Fark |
News | 8 | 2,812 | 63 | No |
| Golf Finder |
Golf | 5 | 917,039 | 10 | Yes |
| Graphic Design Links |
Graphic Design | 3 | 44,905 | – | Yes |
| Hacker News |
Web Development | 7 | 1,668 | 49 | Yes |
| ILikeTotallyLoveIt |
Shopping | 4 | 139,606 | 10 | Yes |
| Inbound Marketing |
Marketing | 3 | 24,837 | 74 | No |
| Indian Pad |
Indian | 0 | 172,609 | 10 | No |
| Infield Parking |
Racing | 4 | 2,089,440 | 27 | Yes |
| Kaboodle |
Fashion | 6 | 2,256 | 52 | Yes |
| Killer Startups |
Business | 6 | 5,672 | 43 | No |
| MetaFilter |
General | 7 | 1,538 | 38 | Yes |
| MMO Social Network |
Blogging | 3 | 204,426 | – | Yes |
| Newsvine |
News | 7 | 2,375 | 32 | No |
| NowPublic |
General | 6 | 6,916 | 43 | No |
| Pixel Groovy |
Web Design | 4 | 97,817 | – | Yes |
| General | 8 | 115 | 72 | Yes | |
| SEO TAGG | SEO | 3 | 140,165 | – | Yes |
| Slashdot | News | 8 | 1,404 | 74 | Yes |
| Small Business Brief | Business | 5 | 16,586 | 35 | Yes |
| Sphinn | SEO/IM | 6 | 8,445 | 49 | Yes |
| StumbleUpon | General | 8 | 106 | 73 | – |
| Stylehive | Fashion | 6 | 10,527 | 29 | No |
| Subbmitt |
News | 2 | 47,821 | 10 | Yes |
| Tip’d | Finance | 6 | 10,614 | 35 | Yes |
| ThisNext |
Shopping | 6 | 147,091 | 49 | No |
| Tweako |
Technology | – | – | 10 | – |
| Value Investing News |
Investing | 4 | 237,916 | 37 | Yes |
| WPScoop |
WordPress | 4 | 51,567 | 27 | Yes |
(Site Statistics updated October 2011)
Social News sites are awesome and better than any basic bookmarking platform in my opinion. Because of the voting systems they have in place, you stand a greater chance of getting really big exposure.
If you have a blog in virtually any niche you’ll be able to submit your blog posts to relevant niche sites and subcategories of general sites like Reddit.
I included whether or not the sites are dofollow, but please think of these sites as traffic sending tools and not places to slap up some backlinks. If you take a look at a list of sites like this from as recently as 2010, the majority of sites no longer exist – largely due to spamming for backlinks.
Some of these sites can be submitted to with automation. Two sites that are free to use to automate submission are Pixelpipe and Onlywire. I made a program with Ubot to help automate the sign-up process which you can download for free here.
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