With the recent launch of CoRank it seems like everyone and their cousin is starting a niche social media site. Just like with a blog though, many will never reach critical mass (and most, in fact, will get abandoned).
However in my lifelong quest to acquire traffic and links cost-effectively, I’m seeking out those niche social media sites that appear to be gaining a user base and actually sending websites real visitors. Here are eight newer ones I’ve discovered… a few of these I’ve actually found through my referrals, which is a good indication they “actually send traffic”. 
- Babblz (Parenting)
- Ballhype (Sports)
- blogs4God (Christian)
- Meme or Lame (Gadgets)
- News Heat (Politics)
- Plant Change (Environment)
- TTiqq (Tips & Tutorials)
- Tweako (Computers & Technology)
Note: Since a lot of folks bookmarked the original post I’m going to go ahead and update it with these new ones: Top 17 25 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic)
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2 comments ↓
First, thanks for the link to blogs4God.com.
Second, I agree with your speculation - this is the 3rd go round for blogs4God, not because of waning interest, but rather from not identifying the model and how to mitigate communal issues correctly. I blog about all I learned from said mistakes here:
http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2007/04/30/what-we-can-learn-from-web-20-success-from-blogs4god%E2%80%99s-mistakes/
That said, I do think that at least in the case of blogs4God.com, success of sending referrals is a definate possibility for the following reasons:
* the blogs4God community are church goers, so generally we’re talking social networking type folks
* I’ve enjoyed several real and virtual friendships via the previous blogs4God efforts, so I’m already getting good ‘gorilla marketing’ within the focal community
* while we made mistakes in the past, we didn’t clobber our credibility - at least in terms of trust
* I generally run with a broader umbrella than similar efforts within this niche
* we are focused less on social issue screaming and more on quality, compelling content regardless of one’s political stripe … just so long as the writer is a practioner of historic Christianity
* we indeed have learned from our mistakes
Then again, I’ve been wrong before - but early indications and numbers are very promising that this new ‘democratized’ community seems to be the ticket.
Thanks for the great post.
I’ve actually gotten some traffic from Tweako on my blog recently. Another good social niche site for developers is dzone.com
Kevin
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