With Digg getting more and more hostile–and with my baiting habit getting a bit out-of-control–I’ve lately been forced to look elsewhere to get my beloved jolts of social media traffic.
No matter. Evolve or die! They won’t send you 5,000 uniques in an hour, but the traffic they do send is more likely to subscribe to your RSS feed, because their members have already identified themselves as part of your niche’s tribe. (And it’s a more targeted tribe than the “gamer wanker” at Digg, or “Politico smartass” at Reddit.)
Without further adieu, here are 17 25 29 24 29 niche social media sites that actually seem to be gaining critical mass:
- AgentB (Deals)
- AutoSpies (Autos)
- Babblz (Parenting)
- Ballhype (Sports)
- blogs4God (Christian)
- BuzzFlash (News)
- Care2 (Social Action)
- Dealigg (Deals)
- Dissect Medicine (Health & Medicine)
- DNHour (Domaining)
- DZone (Developers)
- Game Diggity (Game Videos)
- Hugg (Environment)
- Meme or Lame (Gadgets)
- Mixx (Anything)
- PhotographyVoter (Photography)
- Pixel Groovy (Web Design)
- Plant Change (Environment)
- PlugIM (Online Marketing)
- qoolsqool (Education Resources)
- ScoreGuru (Sports)
- ShowHype (Entertainment)
- Sk-rt (Lifestyle)
- Small Business Brief (Business & Entrepreneurship)
- Sphinn (Search Engines & Online Marketing)
- Stylehive (Fashion)
- TTiqq (Tips & Tutorials)
- Tweako (Computers & Technology)
- VideoSift (Videos)
It’s a good bet that nearly every linkbait you publish would fit in at at least one of the above sites, so I recommend making ‘niche social media submission’ part of your regular launch to-do list. Just like ol’ fashioned link begging, it’s a great tactic to hedge against the power of the Bury Brigade at Digg. (Save yourself time: Go sign up and get an identical username and password for each site, and then bookmark this page 
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2 comments:
Nice write-up. Please don't link bait at VideoSift. We have a "no self-link" policy, and you will be summarily banned. :p
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nice.. one.
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