Are you taking advantage of the niche social bookmarking sites to drive more blog traffic?
When you hear of the bookmarking sites, you immediately think of the big sites like StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, Delicious and so forth.
Let’s face it, what are the chances of rising above the noise and hitting the home page on these networks?
They are way too busy!
Don’t get me wrong, you can still get some exposure and drive traffic back to your blog, however, I have found that the niche social bookmarking sites offer great benefits:
- You can focus on using the social bookmarking networks in your niche. For example, blogging, internet marketing, small business etc.
- Mingle with and learn from the best of the best in your niche. Hang out with like-minded individuals.
- Join a community of members with one goal – to help each other to stand out and drive more blog traffic.
I have joined 5 of these niche social bookmarking communities and I use them to promote my newly published content and to interact with fellow bloggers and entrepreneurs.
1. Blokube
Blokube is a social community site for bloggers and internet marketers. The idea behind this site is to promote interaction among bloggers with the goal to create meaningful discussions and build up quality comments. There is also a voting system where members vote on each other’s content.
It covers blogging, marketing, SEO, SEM, make money online, business news, web development/design and more.
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2. Blog Interact
Blog Interact is a community that allows bloggers, writers, photo and video journalists, and those that are simply interested in various blog and multi-media topics to come together, submit their favorite story, photos, videos, and more, and then engage and “interact” with one another.
The categories include blogging, business, SEO/SEM, lifestyle, web design and so on.
3. BizSugar
BizSugar is a social bookmarking network focusing on news and tips for small businesses. If your article gets 15 and more votes, it will hit the home page, generating massive exposure for and traffic to your blog.
It covers business startups, marketing, legal affairs, management, technology and so forth.
4. SERPd
SERPd is a social bookmarking site dedicated to professionals in SEO, SEM, internet marketing, web development, website design and the like. The top 10 users over the past 30 days get featured on the home page. The most active users get the most exposure on SERPd!
With the SERPd button, it easy for you to share your posts and get more votes by displaying a vote button on your blog.
5. Blog Engage
Blog Engage is a social bookmarking network and community created for bloggers. It allows members to submit their articles for review and promotion.
Stories on the home page can also be shared to the other networks, giving them even more exposure.
Blog Engage runs regular guest blogging contests that you should definitely take advantage of to promote your blog and network with other bloggers.
Niche Social Bookmarking Sites Key Takeaway
These niche social bookmarking sites are growing rapidly and they generate a lot of traffic that you too can get access to – for free! The key is to be consistent with submitting your articles.
You also need to be mindful of the universal law of reciprocity: “give endlessly to receive abundantly”. The more you share and comment on other people’s content, the more they will do the same for you.
I highly recommend that you join these niche social bookmarking communities if you haven’t done so already. Start sharing, interacting and driving more blog traffic!
Over to you now…
- Are you currently using these sites? If so, what’s your experience?
- What are the other blogging/internet marketing social bookmarking communities that you’re aware of?
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Is Bookmarking sites submission gives you a high quality backlinks? are they better than forum and blog backlinks? which one is the best for seo and google loves? – im planning to submit social bookmarking sites at least 50 sites of them. what do you think?
These sites have high page ranks and impressive Alexa rankings. Check them out.
This will help you too: http://www.attractionmarketingonline.com/syndication-tribe/
Mavis
What’s good about these niche social bookmarking sites is that you’ll get more link juice from them because they are directly related to your site’s topic. Thanks for the list, Mavis.
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You’re welcome, Maia.
Hope to see you there.
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I have heard of a few of these and thanks for the info now I need to find more time to submit to these social bookmarking sites; I think we need more hours in the day.
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See you there!
Mavis
Thats true Mavis as I have also heard lot about this sites and I am planning to join also say in BE as this is my first preference and also I like Blokube which is also an important and proves beneficial.
Thanks a lot for this sharing.
You’re welcome, Meg. See you there!
Mavis
I’ve found BizSugar to be a good source of traffic
Great to hear that, Matt.
Very helpful, am bookmarking this page and starting to check these sites out one by one right away! Thanks so much for sharing
You’re welcome, Arti.
Hi Mavis,
You’re very correct. Bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and so on are very difficult to top. It’s better to try out some less popular niche bookmarking sites for targeted traffic.
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I am familiar with Blokube. A blogger friend recommended it to me when I first started with blogging. He said it is best to learn and interact with the pros for a beginner like me. He’s right. I have learned a lot of very helpful tips from increasing traffic to amazing plug-ins.
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This is a highly underrated tip…
Getting connected to niche networks is a fantastic way to bring in more traffic, and expand your marketing reach. It’s worth trying a few to pick the ones which suit your niche and style the best.
You mentioned all my favorites in there Mavis. Love the law of reciprocity mention in there too!
I couldn’t agree with you more, Jym. This is a geat way to expand your marketing reach.
Thanks for stopping by and for your comment.
All the best,
Mavis
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Thanks, Mavis. I haven’t been using an bookmarking sites. But I’ll look more into some niche sites this week.
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Hi Mavis,
Thanks for the tips, then have I join one more social bookmarking site,
SERPd had I not heard of before. I always try to find the latest in SEO.
You’re welcome, Lennart.
All the best,
Mavis
Hey Mavis,
Great content and glad you mentioned Blokube! Absolutely love the site and its specific community for internet marketers and bloggers. The voting tool Blokube uses is very unique and I havent seen many others as neat as theirs.
As far as the other four you have mentioned, I have not used them hardly at all. They seem very helpful and interesting. Definitely on my to do list.
Thanks Mavis
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Thanks very much, Forrest. Dev has done a great job with Blokube
Hope to see you on the other sites.
All the best,
Mavis
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Hi Mavis, thanks for this post. I have used Blog Interact, Blokube and Blog Engage, however I have not used Biz Sugar much or Serpd much. I guess the three I have used have more of a “LIfestyle” section, where as the other two need to be tailored more to internet marketing or SEO… which I suppose I could certainly throw in my two bits from time to time.
I am really looking just to break through that ‘ice’ … so I need to put more effort into getting out there to make some decent progress.
Now the kiddos are back in school, I will have to strategically plan and DO.
Thanks for the great reviews and reminder.
Jayne
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Great plan, Jayne – it’s all about planning and doing
Agreed – the key is to pick the ones which suit your niche the best.
Thanks for stopping by and for your comment.
Mavis
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I was aware of BizSugar, but not of the others. Thanks for the links – I’m going to dig in to them a bit deeper
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You’re welcome, Brock!
All the best,
Mavis
Good help. Things I haven’t seen elsewhere. Thanks Mavis.
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Hey Mavis
I read those sites on a regular basis but have not submitted content.
I think it is time I started.
Thanks
Peter
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I agree, Peter. See you there!
All the best,
Mavis
Great Post Mavis,
I never heard of SERPd or Block Interact. But will defintely check it out.
thanks for sharing Mavis!
cheers
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Thanks, Easther. See you there!
All the best,
Mavis
I have to check the sites here and I hope it will be a help for me then…Thanks Mavis…
Great plan, Emily.
Mavis –
Great sites to recommend, I have heard of all but one, and can’t say I leverage any to any degree of success. But will definitely take your tips and run with ‘em.
I have to ask what do you do to help ensure your ‘shares’ (for lack of a better term) get the attention they deserve once on those sites? What seems to work for you?
Thanks again!
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The key is to use attention-grabbing headlines and images to create curiosity as well as leading with valuable content.
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Mavis
Hi Mavis, niche bookmarking sites and blog communities like Blokube and the others mentioned in your post, offer great benefits especially for SEO and traffic if a post manages to reach the home page for its category. Variety and diversity of links is a very important element of ranking well in the search engines. We must take advantage of every single resource there is out that will add to our benefits.
Good day,
Jo
I couldn’t agree with you more, Jo. Welcome to my blog!
All the best,
Mavis
I’m already using this type of social bookmarking websites
and get more traffic to my blog
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That’s great to hear.
I’d heard of all of these except for SERPd! Thanks for the tips, I love BizSugar and the other social bookmarking sites so I’m sure that one will help out a lot too.
You’re welcome, Kayla. See you there!
Mavis
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Good tips. I wasn’t familiar with a few of these, and they do sound very interesting. Found your site through BizSugar, so that one I know. I’d heard of SERP’d, but hadn’t checked into it. I do like how you describe Blog Interact. This one goes onto my to-do list. Thanks for the info!
You’re welcome. Great to hear that you found my blog through BizSugar.
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Hello Mavis. I have personally noticed that Blokube is dwindling a little bit what traffic and votes are concerned. The other three mentioned here are also niche specific and each one supports an industry well. To get maximum exposure, you may of course submit to ALL the platforms. My personal favorite is Blogengage because of it;s RSS syndication, we are using the Top business solution they offer and it’s great value to offer our clients.
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I know that you’re very active on Blogengage. I think Blokube is still doing well.
Thanks for stopping by, Ivin.
All the best,
Mavis
I love your list of social bookmarking sites this sites are some of the most dependable sites around when it comes to promoting your site and boosting your traffic. Some social bookmarking sites that I’ve been too are not very well taken care of and sometimes when you come back it’s an error page or in parking mode and left by their owners.
Thanks
I’m using all 5 of them, and I mostly hung out in BizSugar, I have knew a lot of online friends and bloggers in all the other 4 network in the past, and is great to know them because I always get the latest update from them when they have release any stuff online, such as contest, products and many more.
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What a helpful post Marvis! I recently started learning more about these sort of sites and posting my companies content and blogs on them. Then suddenly our traffic and analytics scores started soaring. This is some great advice, everyone should follow. Also, you listed a few sites that I’ve never heard of. Do you love every bookmarking site that you listed?
Glad you found this helpful, Shannon. Hope to see you there!
Mavis
What i like about niche bookmarking sites is that you’ll be confident that the users of that site shares the same interest as you with regard to a particular topic. All you have to do is to create a catchy title with valuable description.
That’s absolutely true, Miguel. Hope to see you there.
Mavis
Hi Mavis,
Thank you SO much for the reminder! Although I am regularly on Blokube, I totally forgot about the other ones. Now that summer is almost over, it’s time to get back into the swing of things.
Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow!
Be blessed,
Ilka
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You’re welcome, Ilka. I know, consistency is really key.
I’ll see you there, my friend!
Have a great week.
Mavis
These sites generally have lots of visitors and BizSugar is not bad to be honest.
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Agreed, Ricardus. Welcome to my blog!
All the best,
Mavis
Very valuable and informative, now just have to follow through there’s a couple I didn’t know.
Glad to hear that, Sylviane. Welcome to my blog!
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mavis…Looking forward to have this applied to myself…Thanks a lot!!
See you there, Michael!
Thank you for pointing out BizSugar. Having been looking for some active Legal Niche Social Bookmarking sites, will definitely be using that now.
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You’re welcome, Arfan.
I just would like to say that niche social bookmarking sites is a splendid opportunity for any website owner to get additional traffic to a website. It goes without saying that every online entrepreneur has to make use of this amazing possibility for his online business.
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Agreed, Terje.
This list of bookmarking sites is great information! As a blogger and small business owner, it is crucial to try all social media bookmarking sites (not just the giants) to see which one is right for you and your business/blogging needs.
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Agreed, Kari. Welcome to my blog!
All the best,
Mavis
These sites are fantastic resources. I will definitely be investing the time in them to learn them and make them work for me. Thanks!!
Great to hear.
Niche blogging sites are great places to get traffic and exposure. I’m on Blog Engage, Blokube and Blog Interact and enjoy nice traffic from them.
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Same here, Jane. Nice seeing you there
All the best,
Mavis
We’ve also just begun using niche bookmarking sites. Haven’t seen huge results yet, but we’re just starting. I think it’s a great idea.
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You’ll see results, Darlene. Thanks for the visit and comment.
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its look like niche social bookmarking sites is a very good way to drive traffic thx for write them here i gonna try them out
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thanks again for this list of blogging communities, I signed up to them and now I’m making the best of them
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Cool! Just saw you on BizSugar
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Hello Mavis,
Thank you for sharing this post. I think I have found a goldmine here and can drive more traffic to my blog now using the secrets you exposed here
Just registered to all those sites except blogengage (but will soon)… In fact I have tried submitting, connecting and leaving comments on other people’s blogs already and I just love it! Way better than the crowded SU and Digg. Thanks again and I salute you on this 
-Sonny
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I definitely need to investigate these sites further! I’m new to blogging and need as much exposure as possible! Thanks for the advice!
O, and do you recommend Clever Marketer? I’ve heard that was pretty good as well.
You’re welcome, Anthony. Yes, I recommend the blogging tribe over at Clever Marketer: http://www.attractionmarketingonline.com/blog-marketing-forum/
Hi Mavis,
Great list. I have added them to my list of resources.
thanks
Joe
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Perfect Mavis, I have been looking for a few niche internet marketing / seo bookmarking sites to target. The sites you have given above should help to ‘drip’ create quality backlinks and slowly build PR. Thank you, I am going to sign up to all these sites. Awesome.
You can sign me up to your blog too, I’d like to be in your community
Glad you found this helpful, Cawyn.
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