Shaun Low

Big Social Site Lists for Getting Traffic & Saving Time

Jan. 9th, 2008 by Yuri Filimonov

Lately, it’s been fun finding niche social sites. However, instead of being limited to sites that interest me, you’d rather go check the lists of social sites and pick the ones that fall in your industry.

9 Lists of Social Sites

Digg-style applications: Hundreds of categorized custom Digg style sites, Pligg-based sites, social sites/networks in foreign languages and so on.
83 social sites: various social sites, cagetorized by the topic. Judging by the size of the list, I’d figure it covers most common topics and the sites have some traffic.
Dozens of social sites with PR and Alexa ranks: the list was created by Lyndon Antcliff, one of the better social media experts. Most sites are categorized, some are not. You can use the other lists or see them yourself, I suppose.
27 (and counting) social sites that drive traffic from Andy Hagans: a list of social sites that let you get heavy traffic.
233 social sites: a huge categorized list of sites. I suspect it also includes social networks.
The directory of Web 2.0 sites of all categories: puts all Web 2.0 sites in voting, bookmarking, networking, sharing and other categories. If you want to see everything, this would be your first stop.
1000 categorized sites on one fast page: I’d suspect it is similar to the previous directory, but it shouldn’t hurt to check the industry you are working in, just in case.
List of Pligg-based social sites that drive some traffic. I doubt that this is a complete list, but this list is something to keep in mind. Also lists sites by PR, keyword and categories.
List of social bookmarking sites: categorized list of apparently inhabited websites.
Bonus:
15 environmental social sites

from Bill Slawski

Will you get traffic from social sites?

You may be thinking that once you have your own list, you’ll drown in traffic. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case.

To get plenty of traffic, you need to:

know the audience of the social sites, sometimes each site has its own audience and likes (and to know it, you need to get involved with the site for some time)
create a piece of exceptionally inspiring, touching or helpful of content, based on the audience’s needs/likes/values
spend plenty of time on creating a catchy, effective title to get your story voted for
write an equally hypnotizing description
format the post to actually get read and linked to

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