A few months ago I posted a list of 10 excellent niche social news sites. I’ve been updating the categorized list of social media sites tonight and thought I’d point out 7 noteworthy new additions to the list.
Design Bump
Design Bump is a niche site for web and graphic designers. The audience of the site is similar to that of Design Float, another popular site in the niche. Design Bump has grown a respectable audience in just a few months of existence.
PrettySocial
Pretty social is a niche social news site for women that includes news on fashion, health, beauty and celebrities. You can submit and vote on stories in typical social news style.
SugarLoving
While we’re on the topic of social news sites for women, SugarLoving is also worthy of a mention. Topics of stories include love and sex, fashion and beauty, home and garden, mind and beauty, and more.
Earner’s Club
Earner’s Club is a social news site dedicated to internet marketing, making money online, and related topics. There’s a lot of good content here if this is an area of interest for you.
Tip’d
Tip’d is a social news site for finance-related content. Social media expert Muhammad Saleem is the Community Director for Tip’d, which is off to a great start.
WPscoop
WordPress users and designers will be happy to know that there is a niche news site especially for WordPress-related content. If you can’t get enough of WordPress, be sure to check out WPscoop.
PetZume
PetZume is one of several niche sites that focuses on pets and pet lovers. The site is well-designed and there is a lot to do, including watching videos and creating your own page.
Have Any Suggestions?
Many of the sites on the categorized list of social media sites have been suggested by readers. If there are others that you would like to see included please leave a comment or use the contact form.
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An interesting list there. I guess most of these are relatively new sites, do they get much traffic?
Oh, ps, http://www.hugg.com is a decent environmental news site that might be worth adding to the list.
Hi Steven
How about http://vot.eti.me it’s DesignBump esq and was started when DB was put up for sale on sitepoint (DB didnt got through with the sael), the difference is when your links have 3 vote’s they are published to twitter and http://twitter.com/votetime currently has 300+ followers.
Adi,
Hugg is already on the list and was actually featured in the post that’s linked to in the opening paragraph.
Traffic varies from site-to-site. None of them will send huge amounts of visitors to your site, but they will be targeted visitors.
Sorry, must pay more attention
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Great post. I submitted it to Reddit.
Just read that Hugg is to close.
http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/11/05/hugg-green-social-new-closing/
Unfortunate.
Again, a fantastic list. Thanks for this it’s invaluable info.
This list is really useful, especially since with so many new sites popping up every day, it’s getting harder and harder to find the good ones. Thanks for sharing these.
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