Like I mentioned at the beginning of the week, this week is all about social media and utilizing it to get your blog more traffic and readers.
Starting off with Digg. This is to be considered the mack daddy of Social Media Sites. I’m sure someone is going to disagree so let me clear this up. It is said that if your story makes it to the front page of digg you can expect 30,000 uniques. I just saw a post go to the front page a couple weeks ago and the number was closer to 60,000. However it sometimes takes an act from a higher power to get to the front page so that is why you must keep reading this post to discover other places to submit to.
Reddit is another super power but doesn’t get nearly the traffic that digg gets. Although according to Alexa it is still in the top 1000 sites. The strange thing about Reddit is this is exactly what digg looked like about three years ago. Very basic but had all the right features.
Now we’re starting to get into the more specialized social news sites. Sphinn was started by Search Engine Land. Basically Sphinn is a social site for search and interactive marketers. So if your blog has content related to these things feel free to submit.
Propeller which used to be Netscape (not to be confused with the web browser) is a social news site that was supposedly the digg killer. The difference is that once stories are submitted there is an editor that reviews the story and writes a little more about it. I figure the reason they caught som much bad pres is because they had the potential to steal some digg user base with the star power they had behind the project. Now that it doesn’t occupy the netscape.com namespace I guess its just a side project for someone at AOL.
PlugIM is a socially driven Internet Marketing community. So the IM stands for Internet Marketing. And the Plug part stands for . . . Oh you get the idea. Same voting method as the rest applies. ou either like it or you don’t.
Mixx is a site that you can mixx the stuff that you like and have it delivered to you when you log in. The good thing for bloggers is that the categories cover pretty much everything.
I wanted to make sure I included Hugg in this list to show you how specialized social news sites can get. Hugg was started by Tree Hugger and is for Blogs and articles devoted to green.
Newsdoggy is the real digg killer! Ok maybe I just said that because Newsdoggy is a sister site of SuccessForYourBlog. This is one of my pet projects that I just started and hope everyone takes the opportunity to become an earlier adopter. I have many ideas for NewsDoggy but those ideas will only come to life with blogger participation. So jump in and get your free account. For now its another great way to promote your posts.
Don’t forget Sk*rt - http://www.sk-rt.com, the social news site for women.