30 Social And Bookmarking Communities To Drive Traffic
Using social communities to drive traffic to a site is a known way to drive traffic. The most popular is MySpace, but there are a world of other social communities popping up on the web as other sites prove to be successful, such as Facebook.
Here’s a short list of some of the top social communities:
1. MySpace – Create a community and share photos and interests. Most importantly connect with their growing network and get involved in ‘groups’.
2. Facebook – Facebook is a very popular social service connecting your to friends, past co-workers or people you attended school with in the past.
3. LinkedIn – LinkedIn is an online network of more than 14 million experienced professionals from around the world.
4. MyBlogLog – Connect with readers and other blog authors.
5. Yahoo Answers – A community to ask and answer questions. In the source section, sometimes conveniently add your url as the ’source’ (although, don’t overuse to avoid spam issues).
6. Google Groups – Discuss online. It is fairly easy to ‘drop’ references.
7. Twitter – You can add links with your twitter posts, which can result in traffic to the linked site.
8. Zimbio – Share stories and even add links to other users pages.
9. Blog Catalog – Social directory connecting bloggers.
10. Digg- A very popular news community to vote for stories and leave comments.
11. StumbleUpon – A great service that allows you to submit new sites to the community to receive a thumbs up or down rating.
12. Reddit – Bookmarking source for popular news and stories
13. Diigo – A social bookmarking service that allows adding sticky notes, highlights and easy sharing amongst users.
14. Blogowogo – Add news to be rated by other bloggers. All daily posts are automatically posted to the community by using your RSS.
15. Del.icio.us – Another popular bookmarking service that is currently going through a makeover.
16. BlinkList – Save bookmarks and share with the beta community.
17. Simpy – Bookmarking service allowing you save your favorite websites.
18. Clipmarks – Highlight sections of web pages you enjoy and share with the growing clipmark community.
19. Blue Dot – Share web content with friends and family.
20. Truemors – A Guy Kawasaki site based on posting ‘rumors’
21. Dzone – A free link-sharing community amongst developers.
22. Blog Carnivals – Participate and be a part of organized collection of good posts.
23. Bumpzee – Submit blogs and articles
24. Thoof – Submit articles/postings
25. Sphinn – News, Discussion, Forum
In addition to ‘regular’ social networks. There are social communities that allow you to gain a share of the community revenue that can also be used to drive traffic. You can make money not only from visitors to your site but from the activity on your social networking account itself.
26. MyLot – Thrives on an active community to carry discussions.
27. Gather – Share thoughts and ideas. Ad revenue is shared amongst users.
28. Flixya – Share videos and photos but also have a chance to earn.
29. Xomba – Write postings on their site and get paid through Google Adsense
30. Dada – Social community and earn through Google Adsense by revenue sharing.
Great bunch of list! Nice one! My favourites was Digg, MyBlogLog and Facebook.
Thanks for the list. A lot I’ve never heard of there. I’ll check them out.
WOWO nice list, My favorites would be MBL, Myspace, Digg!
Digg is a great way to get your news on a network were there are loads of active people stalking new news xD
I prefer MBL then BC
how come you didn’t mention hi5?
Myspace is a great space to meet new people knowing its #1 :p over 200million users.
Thanks for posting a few new ones (to me)! I would have loved to hear more about your personal experiences with the ones you use:)
Justin – Well, I’ve had the best results from Stumble (of course!), Myspace, MyBlogLog, Zimbio, Thoof, Reddit and a few others…and not necessarily for this blog. I’ve used them for other sites and have had good experience with most…it really depends on your niche market. :D
This list is very useful, thanks for adding a short blurb after to briefly explain each one. Right now, I’m focused on MBL, BC and Technorati Faves…once I have more time (regular content and building a relationship with my current readership takes priority over getting more traffic), I’ll probably start giving others (like, SU) more attention!
As usual you provide relevant content with extraordinary value. Because of the descriptions I know which sites I want to visit and which sites I want to skip. Well done as usual!
Wow – I never knew there were that many. I have only been scratching the surface, so I better get to work and socialize. ;-)
Nice list Susan. Thanks!
Am so glad you gave a ready reference to check all the social networking sites. I have bookmarked the blog and hope to join as many as i can
thank you.
I need traffic. visit me….
:D
Oh yeah..I use only mybloglog..Thanks for big list..:)
I still don’t understand why Facebook is sooo big and growing so fast… I joined them and it was hard to add friends …You had to put in your school or something and didn’t know how to add friends.
Myspace is way better and I have had great success with it for traffic.
Yahoo Answers has been a great tool for me. I’ve used it to answer people’s questions about Newport Harbor and gave the source as the fansite my brother and I run. It drives in a couple hundred of visitors. :D
Great list btw!!
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What a list! Thanks