PliggSites.com : Directory of Pligg Powered Sites

August 31st, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 13 Comments

The effect of Digg style sites on link building, SEO, and driving traffic has helped fuel the social media marketing movement. But did you know there is much more to social media marketing than just listings on Digg, Netscape and StumbleUpon?

Pligg is an open source program which powers a lot of the Digg style sites on the market and if you represent a niche business, chances are that there is a Pligg powered site perfect for your marketing campaign. Being that these sites are extremely focused, my professional opinion is that by participating in them you can attract more targeted traffic to your web site and listings may have a more powerful effect on future search rankings; especially in vertical and longtail results.

For example, in Search Engine Journal’s case, 100 Sphinn visitors could be much more powerful than 5,000 Digg users as Sphinn members are search engine marketers, tuned into the search world, and highly receptive to our material and sponsorship messages.

Some of my favorite targeted Pligg sites are:

Hugg.com : Digg for Environmentalists
Sk*rt : Digg for Women (Huge Traffic Builder)
Sphinn : Digg for Search Marketers
Deals.com : Digg for Coupons
NewsHeat : Digg for Politics

Search for more targeted Pligg powered sites at PliggSites.com

What are your favorite Pligg powered sites? Feel free to share them in the comments below.

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13 responses so far ↓

10668844 on Aug 31, 2007 at 8:39 am

thanks for sharing this, it is a great help.
moski on Sep 1, 2007 at 1:05 am

http://erieideas.com is a good example of a localized pligg site. Used for the citizens of a small city to come together and share and discuss ideas. The monthly results are emailed to all their local politicians and media stations.
David Mackey on Sep 2, 2007 at 9:29 pm

Nice writeup on Pligg. I just started using them for my site - focused on news for IT professionals.
songteksten on Sep 3, 2007 at 4:11 am

And none of this is meant to discourage you from starting a Pligg site of your own. I just want to start a conversation about some of the challenges
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SteveJ on Sep 7, 2007 at 9:52 am

http://www.macintoshr.com is a pretty good pligg powered site also…
anil on Sep 11, 2007 at 3:33 am

check ths site http://jeqq.com..completely built on ajax it looks awesome
anil on Sep 11, 2007 at 3:34 am

check ths site http://jeqq.com ..completely built on ajax it looks awesome
Manish on Nov 10, 2007 at 5:00 am

Here’s a one site that I found very good. http://www.vindianz.com
yahrah on Mar 28, 2008 at 11:02 am

plig is cool to use..
major on Apr 2, 2008 at 10:57 pm

I thought it was a big list… anyway, www.jackool.com is powered by pligg too..
Pav on Apr 30, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Visit now http://www.w-seo.com
nintendo on Jun 9, 2008 at 1:01 pm

Great top list. http://www.vidgmr.com is a cool game site I came across.
Aaron on Jun 20, 2008 at 12:28 am

I just launch a new pligg site at http://www.gevaldigg.com . It’s a place for people to bookmark site about Torah and Jewish Inspiration. Hope you enjoy.