Social Marketing It Doesnt All End At DIGG

A great list of “Digg-like sites”, that MUST be part of your social marketing plan.

The importance of Social Marketing and using Social Bookmarking sites can not be underestimated. However, sticking a DIGG button on the end of a few of your blog posts is NOT gonna cut the mustard! Social Bookmarking sites for social marketing have been around for a long time, and many are used for certain categories.

If you niche fits in a particular category, with a ‘digg-like’ social bookmarking site, then by all means ensure you use it as part of your social marketing strategy.

Here is a big list of Social Bookmark sites and their categories for you to ‘play with’. Some have been in use for longer than Digg itself, most enable links (although not all), and all can help you with social networking to increase traffic.

SPECIAL NOTE: uVme’ers – please ensure you check out the gaming sites for obvious reasons!

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AmPmInsure: Insurance information/help community.
AutoConcourse: NEW! cars
Autospies: for automobile news.
B-Boys: Hip Hop
Betamarker: for beta software.
Blog Memes: digg-style with publishing and thumbshots
BlinkBits Community with social bookmarking.
Blog-Buzz: For blog posts.
Bloodee: Horror Related.
bookrevyoo: for books.
Boxxnet: for bookmarks, news, books, videos…collections.
bytemycode: for code snippets
Canadaka: Website for promote Canadian patriotism, nationalism, sovereignty and democracy with a section to submit, comment and rate using a 1-10 dropdown menu.
Care2 News Network: digg-style about the environment, human rights, animal welfare using tags, groups and image support.
Catster: Submit, comment and rate cats. See also for dogs.
CC Hits: for creative common music. A Ning application with comments, voting, music player and more
Citizenbay: For US local news, events, classifies and opinion using tags.
Content Pop: Group of communities: technology, health, shopping…
CrowdStorm: For shopping with images and voting as recommendations.
Culture Popp!: pop related.
Curious Contraptions Community: A forum.
Daytipper: For tips.
Deal Comet: Deals and coupons, for the US, Canada and the UK.
dealspl.us: For Shopping and coupons showing item photos.
Dig a List: Web 2.0
DigStock: Financial news.
Dissect Medicine: for medical news.
Diggers: by grou.ps, a wiki based digg with thumbshots and Ajax. Let's you synchonize with del.icio.us, digg or reddit.
diggtrends: Digg's mirror and a complement to Digg.com
dzone: for developers resource. With small zooming thumbshots when hovering.
Dogster: Submit, comment and rate dogs. See also for cats.
_Edtags: NEW! Education.
eurogoal NEWS: Football news using tags.
FLURL: For videos with up/down voting.
folkd: Social network and bookmarks with digg like voting and a news section.
FWDiton: for funny emails.
gibbity: digg-style, rate and review games.
humdigg: news for/by the Indian community
Hypediss: For stories, up/down voting and tags.
I use This: For Mac OS X Applications
iJigg.com: For music with web players.
imgppl: Photos voting.
Inchicks: For girls.
IndiaGram: focused on India.
iTalkNews: Submit, write, rate, comment, add related news and get paid.
Jossle: For political media stories.
Jump it!: For Games, PSP, Hack… related
KicksHype: All about sneakers.
Law Favorites : Focused on the Law.
Linkfilter: digg-style with rating, has a Firefox toolbar and sidebar.
livelocker: for videos, music, and photos.
LiveVideo.com: For videos. 
MetaFilter Projects: digg-style for self-linking projects
MOG: (Millions of games) digg-style for games with an 'e-mail this' and a 'play this' button.
motorpulse: For cars
muti: reddit like for content of interest to Southern Africa
Netscape.com: Shows digg-style social news using categories and tags…
NewsBump.net and NewsBump.co.uk: digg-style for News with categories.
NewsCloud: for news with tags, groups and images support 
Newsvine: digg-style community for news with tags and the possibility to create your own columns (write).
newsgarbage: digg-style for technology news with up/down voting.
NooZ: For MySpace members and MySpace add-on widgets.
OOZM: Search engine with digg like voting.  
picli: for any creative content
Pikapet: Doggies, Kitties and other pets.
Plime: An aggregator wiki with up/down voting
PodcastAlley: for funny podcats.
Protolize: Submit, review and rate web-tools.
Pop Current: Categories by type or file format, Music, Talk, Video, Books…
qoolsqool: for educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
Quadriot: for funny, strange stories
Questionville: for voting the answers, not the questions.
Reddit: digg-style with up/down voting and Karma points
RealEstateVoices: Real estate related.
Riffs: for anything. Rating is the main feature with up/down voting, also supports images.
Scooop.net: digg-style for special news and rewards.
Shoutwire: digg-style rating for news stories.
SlideShare: Share and view videos, slideshows, powerpoint, openoffice…
Sliider: for submitting and voting photos directly (no links): for triathlon news.  
Sperocite: for news  
TalkSoccer: Soccer.
The Best Stuff In The World: a bit like riffs with social bookmarking.
Techtagg: BETA, with adsense support.
Tendango: digg-style with community collections/listing and tagging.
Travelscoop: New Zealand Travel News and Travel Information.
trendi: Fashion news using tags.
Tribalwar: for gaming news.
UmmYeah.com: Ajax-based social video & news aggregation with star voting, tags and Karma points. Also supports file upload!
UrbanDictionary: With Up/down voting. Has no commenting.
Uvouch.com: For Links and videos.
Value Investing News: Investment related with up/down voting.
VCNewsCentral: Aggregator with voting. Startup news from the blogosphere
Video Bomb: digg-style for videos.
Wizag: For feeds, previously called Diggol.
Wikio: Private Beta. For news, also in French.
Wobblog: for blogs with Haloscan support.
Wordsy: For Books.
YouPickTheNews: for news with a 'in-page floating div' system for rating, without comments but with email notification.

If you can find any others, and Im sure you can, please post a comment with the url for others to read.

This post has taken forever to write and I hope it benefits a few people. It should give you some new niche ideas, or help you with your digg style submissions.

If you liked this, please write a post about it on your website or blog, It would make me feel that all the hard work I put into compiling this hasn't gone to waste