Benchmark : community site ( forum, discuss, reddit like)

[damdamdam]

Hello Marketers !

I try to build a digital strategy for a niche market, we already have some websites on this niches (5 000 000 uv/month).

But I would like to have a benchmark of community websites.

**Can you help me ? ** Please

I did some research and I already find this list :
- reddit
- digg
- car throlle
- starkoverflow
- Newsvine
- github
- daniweb

I'm french, and I do some research in the french market ( openclassroom, melty ... ).

I try to list the best practices, like login, emailing, social sharing, meta, seo, gamification...

Sorry for my english, but you know 'excusez moi'.

Thanks.

[Dani]

Hi,

I'm sorry, I am really confused by what you're asking. I see you have a list of some of the bigger social media / community sites out there, especially ones targeting developers and technology early adopters. But, what are you trying to accomplish? Build a digital strategy for a niche market?? Can you elaborate what you mean by that?

[damdamdam]

Hi,

I try to find the best way to create a huge community on a specific market.

We already have 1 site on the younger costumers like buzzfil but for a specific topic , the second for older people (35-60yo) on this topic too and another site with a great community of expert in this field.

But all this website have different brand / name / UX etc.

So i think it's better to rebuild the last site (community one's) and create an API who link the 2 news sites on this forum.

What do you think about it ?

Thx,

[rosario1990]

I appreciate your efforts. Most valuable sites which you have gathered but I want to say you should target your own local market. This will help you to get more visitors locally.

[damdamdam]

But i have some serious issue about duplicate content.
Better used canonical ?

[erikko]

I think you are asking of the best ways to market your French site. Go for sites that cater your language or country so that it is related to your site.

[rosario1990]

Of course, content must be unique and logical. So that, visitors feels interested to visit website and be as a customer.

[damdamdam]

I stay focus on our native langage market. IOM we can take the best on an international benchmark, ux, ui, gamification...

Thx for this help.