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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53 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, http://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.
Carnival of Politics on Jul 6, 2008 at 9:48 pm
A better digg for politics - http://www.carnivalofpolitics.com
Patrick on Jul 23, 2008 at 5:03 am
http://www.EntirelyOpenSource.com has integrated Pligg, DokuWiki and Joomla CMS into one beautiful web site to deliver social news, a community driven open source software directory and a news aggregator comprised of hundreds of open source software RSS feeds.
David Mackey on Jul 23, 2008 at 6:26 pm
@Patrick - Really like your site. Very nice job.
anil on Jul 23, 2008 at 10:35 pm
new bookmarking site http://www.goofit.com
Geoserv on Jul 31, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Pligg is a great script and with the right knowledge can be expanded on easily and endlessly.
There are a lot of Pligg powered websites out there.
sumshare on Aug 5, 2008 at 10:06 am
http://www.sumshare.com use pligg.it looks very beautiful!
anilrgowda on Sep 8, 2008 at 8:52 am
one more awesome site with a differnet look http://www.dapx.com i dnt think its pligg
Sporst Tide on Sep 25, 2008 at 10:50 am
Another Sports related site http://sportstide.com
phoenix on Sep 28, 2008 at 10:02 am
thanks for sharing this, it is a great help.
Ramil on Oct 6, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Another Pligg-powered site is http://www.earnersclub.net It is focused on making money online, internet marketing and blogging.
David Mackey on Oct 6, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Loren - Not sure if you’ve seen, but Social Web Content Management System (SWCMS) is a recent fork of the Pligg codebase. I’d encourage you to take a look at the SWCMS website (www.socialwebcms.com). We have released 1.0 RC2 and intend to RTM this weekend to 1.0.
anilrgowda on Oct 6, 2008 at 11:08 pm
i found one more gr8 site http://www.tryhit.com
Latest Gadgets on Oct 10, 2008 at 3:00 am
http://techdoggy.com
TechDoggy is a user-powered news portal built specially for the technology and gadgets.
sandy on Oct 22, 2008 at 4:54 am
Nice write up on Pligg is cool to use.
‘check http://www.webartsense.com
neung on Nov 1, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Catalog Shopping - http://www.shoppingbyclick.com
anilrgowda on Dec 1, 2008 at 11:17 pm
found one more interesting sports bookmarking site
http://www.strod.com
Regards
anilrgowda
http://www.bjp.com
vikas on Dec 5, 2008 at 4:55 am
well i do believe in social bookmarking …. search engine is one of the nice site and i have started pligg (big fan of open source)
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compeak on Dec 20, 2008 at 6:11 am
thank you i want auto pling
ยพำฟท on Dec 23, 2008 at 7:22 am
http://www.thupphotos.com good background
devbhai.com on Dec 26, 2008 at 4:56 pm
http://www.devbhai.com
Adrin on Dec 30, 2008 at 4:10 am
Nice….
Nick Norris on Jan 1, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I am working on this one right now
http://pluggos.com
Gerardo on Jan 3, 2009 at 7:39 pm
i like this one
http://www.rackdic.com
Nick Norris on Jan 3, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Yeah I really like the template on it. Does anyone know how to get rid of the spam on Pligg sites? It sucks really bad.
paknaz on Jan 14, 2009 at 8:14 am
i have installed mine at http://www.paknaz.com
pligg directory on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:21 pm
http://www.pliggdirectory.net also one have many collection of pligg sites.
Alex on Feb 5, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I love pligg
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I love pligg!
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Layton on Feb 25, 2009 at 12:39 am
Thanks for your information.
Hoteye on Mar 12, 2009 at 7:27 am
Great artical, pligg is the best :P
william on Apr 20, 2009 at 6:29 pm
thanks for sharing this information, very great..cheers
ApnaReview.com on Apr 23, 2009 at 5:13 am
Here is one more best pligg site i ever see…. good work
John Schlick on Apr 23, 2009 at 2:14 pm
If anyone needs a pligg developer (to create whatever your vision is using modifications to pligg - get ahold of me at John_Schlick@hotmail.com
Jessada Juntason on Apr 29, 2009 at 7:19 pm
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Socialking on May 31, 2009 at 2:18 am
Yes pligg is a Cool CMS.
WealthyAffiliate on Jun 2, 2009 at 9:44 am
This is a great list and very helpful. I agree.. I really like Pligg and Open Source these days.
Adam on Jun 10, 2009 at 8:08 am
Social digg site launched
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