6 Niche Websites to Help Promote Your Blog
The internet thrives on niches. In the truly open society of the internet, any common cause, shared interest, or obscure topic can target its fandom and have them congregate directly to it without barriers.
But what do you do when your niche isn’t gaining as many community members as it used to attract? Where can you turn to promote your niche website when you are already the big fish in your small pond? How can you get real results without vainly hoping for a front page link on major pages like Digg?
Before consulting these generic options, be sure to spend some time hunting for the Digg equivalent within your niche. Finance websites have Tip’d and Feed the Bull, sports pages have BallHype and ArmChairGM. A good strategy is to find out what references those sites use, and get yourself posted across them.
If your niche spans multiple niches, such as video games and sports, cross-pollinate your content as much as possible.
1. Metafilter
Metafilter is a great place to start promoting yourself, as long as you do so without crass self-promotion. The community is very active and lively and thrives on finding cool contents related to the subject matter on hand. If you’ve got something truly great to share, the MeFites will become both traffic and signposts to other avenues of publication.
2. Propeller
Propeller is very similar to Digg, with a more serious focus, emphasizing politics, current events, finance, and technology topics. It operates with a system much like Digg’s “digg and bury” system, but the community is smaller and more likely to get your content more traffic.
3. Mixx
Mixx is a multi-topic social news site. Any blogger can find an appropriate category for content. The best part about Mixx is that you can create groups and associate your content with other people in your niche, enabling everyone to share readers from other communities and help find new references for each other. Mixx is also a sort of social media aggregator, providing another means of integrating your content into the mainstream of social media.
4. Shoutwire
Another generic news community. You probably won’t aim to become a regular feature on Shoutwire if your niche is very small, but it is a good place to try to become the favored expert on a subject. The interface is similar to the rest of the social media news sites, and any topic stands a chance of getting strong attention.
5. Linkfilter
Linkfilter is a more free-form publication venue than the aforementioned, but it has major strengths in that your content can be ranked based on clicks, votes, age, and combinations of those points, giving you better ways to target your particular content. An older article with lots of traffic built over time will have higher ranking than a new article that became a flash in the pan, and less-visited pages with a high vote count will show up as choice options.
6. Slashdot
Slashdot is well known among the tech community, and is famous for “the Slashdot effect” of killing webpages with traffic. What it is gaining in recent years is a much broader palette for topics; while it used to be a nerdy hideout for the tech obsessed, it has since expanded into a diverse set of venues for publishing on general science topics, literature, political events, as well as its original core in gadgets and technology.
These are the big names in alternative social media. Once you’ve found your niche’s specialty aggregator, these can be used to grow your audience well beyond your initial core niche.
This post is contributed by James, a tech writer and reviewer who works at an online store offering ink cartridges in the UK. Follow their blog for new posts about design, media and marketing.
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Thanks for your great information.I Will try it.
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I went to the sites mentioned above and registered in a few. I just wanted to mention that Metafilter charges a $5 fee for registration to new users. On Linkfilter registration for new users was closed but you are instructed to email the webmaster to request membership. Thanks for sharing all of these sites with us.
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Thanks for letting us know. I’m sure those restrictions are to keep out spammers, who inundate them with fake identities.
I use Propeller and other social bookmarks but they give little traffic.
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Metafilters is great for gaining backlinks since many of its pages have PR which some have 4 at the most. However as Karla Campos Lopez made mentioned, the site requires $5 registration fee. I am registered and I would say it’s worth it. Little reminder though that, metafilters doesn’t allow self promotion. Use your creativity.
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Hey thanks a lot for the details that you have provided over here.Blog writing and posting is very popular these days.I had heard about Mixx in the past but the others are new to me.Thanks for discussing all the points so elaborately.
Thanks for the tips, Jesse.
Hi,its nice to read a useful article for beginner like me.Some of points from this article are very helpful for me as I haven’tconsidered them yet.I would like to say thank you for sharing this cool article.
I used Slashdot.
I’ll try to rest of the list.
I went to the sites mentioned above and registered in a few. I just wanted to mention that Metafilter charges a $5 fee for registration to new users. On Linkfilter registration for new users was closed but you are instructed to email the webmaster to request membership.
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From the sites listed, I have only used Mixx and Propeller and in my opinion they are not very effective, when it comes to promoting. I was trying to be as active there as possible, but still the traffic I received wasn’t worth the wasted time. Metafilter seems like an interesting site though. Will check it out.
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But my experiment is different than you. I have not got good results from digg as according to me it is no follow.
I like Metafilter – its good tools!
out of those i only used mixx.com out of them i will try the others if they will help my blog
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Many thanks for the information
And what about Digg.com? I like this source because there you can share your sources with the majority of other users.
I also would add Twitter and Facebook to this list – these websites are also splendid opportunities to promote a website.
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Hi,its nice to read a useful article for beginner like me.Some of points from this article are very helpful for me as I haven’tconsidered them yet.I would like to say thank you for sharing this cool article.
Shoutwire is a new source for me – thanks for sharing, I’ll give it s try!
I like propeller most from this list, because to my mind there are more visitors than other sources mentioned in the list.
You forgot to mention how propeller makes it impossible to register for an account. I spent like over an hour and couldnt log in.
Slashdot dish up information related to social and political matters but links of Slashdot are do follow.
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I’ve been a steady visitor to some of these sites already, but will check out the others. Thank you.
Your tips are really good. I think you forget digg. Digg also very good site for promoting your website or blog…
yes Lena.. you are right Propler and social bookmarks site give little traffic..then how could get more traffic……?
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