Top 11 Digg-like Sites For Bloggers, Designers, And Web Developers
September 19, 2007
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Anyone who has tried to get to the Digg front page knows how hard it is to do that. You need a lot of friends, influence, and need to be a top member apart from writing quality content before you can dream of meeting success on Digg.
On Digg-clones, on the other hand, it’s relatively easy to get the attention you deserve. Many niche specific Digg-style sites have emerged over the past few months where you can submit stories to be reviewed and voted by those who are interested in your content. Though, you may not get as much traffic from niche social media sites as you would from Digg, it’s worth having your content read by the like-minded people who are more likely to become your regular readers.
Below is a list of 11 most popular Digg-like sites where bloggers, designers, and web developers can submit stories (their bog posts or whatever) to promote their content.
Sphinn is a social site for search and interactive marketers. It’s designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others.
PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page.
Blogg-Buzz is a blogger driven site, exclusively for bloggers like you, to share, discover and promote blog posts that you find interesting!
Design Float is a Digg style, community driven news aggregator dedicated to the design industry. Design Float aims to collect and organize design-related content from across the web while letting the community float the best articles to the top pages of their categories and sink the most irrelevant one’s to the bottom. The ultimate goal of Design Float is to, hopefully, categorize the huge amount of design-related content available on the web into neat and easy to navigate pages of articles in order of importance/relevance as decided by the community. Basically, it’s just a niche version of the highly popular Digg.com.
Pixel Groovy is a user controlled tutorial directory. We provide the members with the control, not editors, to decide which tutorials are worthy of being published and which tutorials aren’t. This helps filter out and set a level of quality in the tutorials seen on the frontpage.
CSSG is a web standards oriented site where, basically, anyone with the right will can post updates.
- DZone is a free link-sharing community for developers
- anyone can submit new links to the incoming queue
- members vote on upcoming links to determine what gets promoted
- everyone can browse, search and comment on links
TagNe.ws, is a web 2.0 application that allows you to submit an article that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the home page. When a user submits a news article it will be placed in the “upcoming” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the home page. The original source for TagNe.ws was authored by Ricardo Galli. He was influenced by the extremely popular English technology site digg.com.
DigaList is a global personal lists website. We all love lists, we all have kinds of lists, about life, work, dreams etc. Have you ever wished to dig out all these treasure and share them with others? In DigaList, you can create your lists, co-create a list with others, or dig out a list you like.
SEOyak.com is a news site for the Search Engine Optimization community.
SEOyak.com allows users to submit stories that affect the SEO world and then vote on those stories to decide which submissions get the most exposure. The SEO industry has come to appreciate the power of social media recently, and SEOyak.com provides a great opportunity to get SEO news heard.
Qoolsqool is a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
Qoolsqool’s mission is to take advantage of 21st century technologies to advance knowledge and education around the world and reach to people with a need or a desire to learn or teach.
I am sure there are more, and if I have missed any, please list them in the comments.
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Dugg (how ironic)! Thanks for including Design Float.
You are welcome Andrew, and thanks for all the promotion
pelf, awesome list. I didn’t know about those!
Nice list, the only one of those I use is Sphinn. Are the others actually big enough to bother with?
Matt it depends on how big is big enough to you. Sphinn is definitely the biggest of all, hence on the top of the list, but PlugIM and others are good too.
You can try out the rest of them and see how much return you get on your time investment.
Great list, thanks for posting!
Sphunn and Dugg!
I found your article from Sphinn.. Nice list!.
It just occurred to me that I should write one of these sites…
You are welcome guys!
Nice list the only one of those I use is Sphinn.
I am glad you find it useful oggin.
Like the others, I haven’t heard of most of these. I’ve seen dzone and am just learning the power of Sphinn…but thanks for giving me a bunch more to check out
I am curious as to how many bloggers submit their content to sites like digg and how often. Also do you submit all of your posts or only your best work?
Hey great post, gonna use these for my site.
Dana, sorry, your comment was caught by Akismet spam Plugin. I just saw it and freed it from the shackles
Sorry about that.
Webd360, I submit to Digg only the stuff that I think would interest the Digg crowd. Since I write about blogging and it’s one of the most hated subjects on Digg, I refrain from submitting my regular posts to Digg
Dmitry, Great!
I was looking for a list like this for bloggers, thanks - I’ll try Sphinn and Blog Buzz.
Karthik, forget about Blog Buzz. This is an invitation only site. I’ve tried signing up twice but haven’t gotten my invitation yet
I am considering removing it from the list.
lol, that helps in reducing the hopes level
That looked really attractive since its one of few services that list the actual URL on their homepage. That would have helped with PR too.
Oh well!
PS: I think I’ll join PlugIM then, it seems fairly young and less competitive compared to Sphinn.
Great list … Just launched Design Sites Up which is a Digg like site for designers.
Great list… there are several niche sites like those…and I agree with the point that although Digg has huge amount of traffic, but most newbie bloggers and small bloggers don’t have too much chances on getting on first page…
In contrast at other voting sites, you can almost guaranteed that your submitted post/story will be in the front page (most of the time..)
& Here is one you’re miss…
http://www.postonfire.com - a new social bookmarking site for bloggers…
Thank you..
Thanks a lot.This is what i was exatly looking for
Hi,
I think for search engine optimisation just 11 digg like sites may not be sufficient. May you should compile at least a list of 100. http://www.v0v.com ( value zero! vote) is similar to digg like site. This improves page rank. There are many more sites like this. Wish to see your complete list.
thanks
Thanks, Very nice list. Please consider this site
http://www.v0v.com (value zero! Vote) as well for your list
One of the better digg clones…. quality article posting for blogs only, very strict anti-spam policy, nice site design and easy usability is …www.blogbookmark.com.
If it is blog linkage you want or you just want to find some great blogs to read, then blogbookmark is a good choice.