I know I don’t post enough, but I try to have unique posts. I was holding off on this to better take advantage of it myself, but since SEOmoz is posting about Pligg sites, I better post this now before my content is less than unique.
Everyone knows the use of the social bookmarking sites to drive traffic, but I also think they are good because many of them give out direct links that are indexed by the search engines. Some of the smaller bookmarking sites only give out redirect links, but it looks like almost none of them are using link condoms, and many give out direct links.
In the spirit of the holidays here is my list English-language social bookmarking sites that give out direct links. I omitted the bigger known sites and ones with primarily adult related content.
I grouped them by my quick notes about their niche, but they are basically in random order.
http://www.apbnews.com/ Crime
http://crimene.ws/ Crime and Law Enforcement
http://www.digstock.com/ Stocks, Investing
http://www.business-planet.net/ Business news
http://news.fatpitchfinancials.com/ Investing and Finance
http://www.commercebucket.com/ Economics, Retail, Commerce
http://www.valueinvestingnews.com/ Investing, Markets, Stocks
http://www.2centsnews.com/ Markets, Economics
http://www.marketpicks.net/ Stock and Market News
http://www.bizzbites.com/ Business, Management
http://www.braindigg.com/ Psychology, Neurology, Cognitive Science
http://www.hitsmit.com/ Health care, technology
http://www.medical-articles.net/ Medical
http://paramedic.org.uk/ Paramedics, EMS, Health Care, UK
http://www.podolicious.com/ Podcasts
http://pixelgroovy.com/ Tutorials, Graphics, Development
http://www.thelitlist.com/ Online Fiction
http://bad.webpagesthatsuck.com/ Badly Designed Webpages
http://www.barksbookmarks.com/engine/ Culture, Music, Art (Videos and photos)
http://shakk.us/ General Videos
http://mootion.com/ Videos
http://www.thatschillin.com/ Videos, Entertainment Gen Interest
http://www.coolfunnycandy.com/ Cool, Funny or (eye)Candy
http://www.meme-stream.com/ General, Videos
http://riggd.com/ Politics
http://politipop.com/ Political News
http://www.indianaseesee.com/ Local Indiana News, U.S. Politics
http://www.motorpulse.com/ Cars
http://www.autospies.com/ Auto Shows, Cars
http://www.ravemyspace.com/ MySpace, Profile Pages, Music
http://wink.com/ Profile Pages, Myspace
http://www.nooz.com/ General, Myspace?
http://www.afgnews.com/ Afghanistan, Current Events, General
http://www.news2.ca/ Canadians, General
http://www.news.articlesphere.com/ General
http://www.blogreporter.biz/ General
http://wobblog.com/ General
http://www.indianbytes.com/ India, Technology, General
http://www.spymy.com/ South East Asia General
http://kick.ie/ Irish, Gen interest
http://www.qoolsqool.com/ Education General
http://hubpages.com/ Long Informative Articles
http://www.topkix.com/ General
http://www.buzzjapan.com/ Japan, General
http://www.shoutwire.com/ General
http://www.inboxnews.com/ General News
http://www.clicktator.com/ General
http://www.bythemasses.com/ New York City, General
http://www.blogmemes.net/ General
http://muti.co.za/ General
http://www.humsurfer.com/ Indian General
http://www.italknews.com/ General
http://www.livelocker.com/ General
http://www.getgui.com/ General
http://www.yunar.com/ General
http://www.newsgarbage.com/ General
http://www.contentpop.com/ General
http://www.scooop.net/ General
http://forumsofindia.com/articles/ General
http://quadriot.com/ College General (need a .edu email to join)
http://popcurrent.com/ Online Media, Entertainment
http://www.binarylaw.com/ Technology Law
http://dotnetkicks.com/ .NET, ASP, MS
http://www.betamarker.com/ Software releases
http://wetogether.info/ Gadgets, Tech
http://www.bitchabouttech.com/bitchabouttech/ Technology
http://forumfads.com/ Web Forums, Tech
http://www.techtagg.com/ Tech
http://sharepointkicks.com/ Microsoft Sharepoint
http://www.appslist.com/ Linux, Mac, Windows, Software
http://www.mobilitybeat.com/ Phones, PDA, Mobile, Gadget
http://hahahollywood.com/ Celebrities, Gossip
http://hollywoodlowdown.com/ Celebrities, Gossip
http://www.hypediss.com/ Trends, Fashion, General
http://www.bestweekever.tv/ble/ Celebrity, Gossip
http://www.culturepopp.com/ Celebrity Gossip
http://www.scoopity.com/ Hollywood, Fashion
http://thelosthub.com/ The TV Show Lost
http://mp3rama.com/ Digital Music, mp3s
http://news.thetrc.net/ Music, Bands
http://www.theplugg.com/ Entertainment, Music
http://www.soundtrakk.com/ Music
http://undistortion.com/ Music stories and reviews
http://britney.starfrosch.ch/ Music
http://cruisinaltitude.com/news/ Aviation
http://www.hugg.com/ Green, Environmental
http://www.hrsalad.com/ Human Resources, Workplace
http://www.newvoyagenews.com/ Space Tourism
http://www.theadreview.com/ TV / Video Ads
http://www.voteanime.com/ Anime
http://www.winelifetoday.com/ Wine Snobs
http://www.gamelemons.com/squeeze/ Video Games
http://www.pixelmo.com/ Video Games
http://www.leetdaily.com/ Video Games
http://www.gamerbytes.com/ Video Games
http://www.strobe.org/ MMORPGs
http://devbump.com/ Video Game Development, Mods
http://www.sustaind.org/ LDS Religion
http://www.inbreaking.com/ Christianity, Missionaries, Church
http://battellemedia.com/searchmob/ Search
http://www.plugim.com/ SEO, SEM, Web
http://searchenginepress.com/ SEO, SEM, Search
http://www.wrigg.net/ Web Content, Articles
http://www.marktd.com/ Marketing, Advertising
http://adveracio.us/ Advertising
http://www.kablogs.com/ Blogging, Blogosphere
http://www.ordinarii.com/ Advertising, Search Marketing
http://sportsflip.com/ Sports
http://www.wedigsports.com/ Sports
http://www.thumbsupfootball.co.uk/ Football / Soccer
http://run.trihound.com/ Triathlons
Now I am not suggesting you spam these sites (some already have been in my cursory glance), but rather adopt a site if they are in your niche and start building their community… with your posts of course.