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The long collection from is a useful snapshot of niche communities, and several replies (notably , and ) rightly point out that a few mainstream networks drive large volumes. The practical gap in the thread is strategy: a list of sites is a starting point, not a plan. The deciding questions should be goals, audience, and content format — those determine which communities are worth the time.

Start with clear objectives: brand awareness, lead generation, direct sales, or customer support. Map the target audience to platform types (visual, long-form, professional, hobbyist, marketplace, streaming) and match content to the medium. A visual asset on a visual-focused community will almost always outperform a generic cross-post. Niche communities often deliver higher intent and stronger engagement per post; mainstream channels deliver scale. Both are useful if chosen to serve the objective.

A practical 90-day workflow that fits what people in this thread are trying to do:

  1. Pick three channels: one for reach, one niche for engagement, and one owned channel (site/newsletter) for conversions.
  2. Build a simple content calendar with 2–3 reusable assets per week and adapt each to the channel’s format.
  3. Track referral traffic and conversion events, compare engagement rates, and reallocate effort to the highest-ROI channels.

Cautions: avoid mass auto-submissions and spammy link-farming; respect community rules and contribute before promoting; favour native engagement (helpful answers, genuine comments) over blunt promotion. That turns the long lists shown here into measurable, repeatable outcomes instead of scattered bookmarks.

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Member Avatar for Rauny

Thanks for providing this great list of social networking websites. But Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon and Digg like social networking websites are also popular and good for social media optimization.

Member Avatar for amuthanjrv

Hi Thank you very much for the list. Social networking websites are designed to allow members to connect and communicate with one another - so features of these sites foster interaction, activity, and of course, community.

Member Avatar for roxyplay

i found is a popular social networking website for blogging and making links to your site to get high traffic.It helps me alot.

Member Avatar for patriciaevansss

Thank you for these list but i am not really sure about these. Currently, i am using Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Digg for social networking. And also blog networking using blogcatalog and blogged.

Member Avatar for Ydeveloper

Small but good one. It's better to do social networking on some popular networks like facebook, twitter etc.

Member Avatar for adityaa

Thanks for the list. But it huge approximately 60,000 .

Member Avatar for Rauny

Thanks for this great list of Social networking sites. But I think in the recent time Facbook, Twitter, Stumbleupon and Digg are the best sites to be used as social networking sites. These sites drive huge traffic if optimized well.

Member Avatar for Kenank1

Thank for sharing the list.I will definitely try to work on them so that I get some good traffic and links to my site..

Member Avatar for halenmartinez

i appreciate that you share your personal research everyone, hoping some new listing from you

Member Avatar for SJaved7

These site are really effective for driving traffic form these sites.

Member Avatar for joanniecanchola

Some of these sites listed over here helped me a lot to drive traffic.

Member Avatar for JamesWon

All the above mentioned social networking sites are so superb, thanks to share this valuable sites with us.

Member Avatar for bhavdeeps

Thanks for sharing this post.
Anyway some other social sites are below
Facebook
Twitter
Google+
Linkedin
Pinterest

Member Avatar for finovera

These sites realy use full web page very thank you.....

Member Avatar for seo2india

very nice & Usefull info for social media optimization...

Member Avatar for arunmarvel5

stumbleupon.com
delicious.com
stylefm
friendsfeed.com
printrest
orkut

Member Avatar for mughaltent

Thanks for providing the useful information for SMO website.

Member Avatar for Shail164

This Social website can drive high amount of traffic to our website.

Member Avatar for mayaestat

Thanks for sharing such a great list of Social Media website. According to a survey there are around 270+ social platforms available on Internet.

Member Avatar for AliceStyles

I believe nothing can be more useful than the social media platforms themselevs. The popular ones such as Twitter, facebook Instagram, Pinterest and much more.

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