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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.

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A short expert preface grounded in the thread: consolidating community features into a single forum core and exposing news/site content via a lightweight API is a pragmatic path for retention and moderation. ’s plan to rebuild the community and link the other sites is sensible; defining the primary objective (growth vs. retention vs. expert contribution) will decide priorities. ’s request for clearer goals, and /’s emphasis on local-language focus, are the right trade-offs to surface early.

Benchmarks and a practical roadmap: instrument metrics first (DAU/MAU, 7/30/90‑day retention, posts per active user, reply rate, time-on-thread, and email CTRs). Phase 1 — baseline measurement and content audit. Phase 2 — launch an MVP community (SSO, profiles, basic moderation, seed expert threads). Phase 3 — add quality-driven reputation, curated expert lanes, and targeted email digests. Phase 4 — A/B test onboarding and gamification; reward helpful behaviour (accepted answers, edits, moderation) rather than raw points.

Technical and SEO notes to avoid common pitfalls: handle syndicated or cross-posted content deliberately — use redirects or rel=canonical and keep signals consistent across the cluster. Host each language/version on its own URL and use hreflang for language targeting rather than serving different languages at the same URL. Mark up forum pages with the appropriate structured data (QAPage for Q&A threads or DiscussionForumPosting for general discussions) and serve indexable HTML (SSR or prerender) so threads and paginated pages are crawlable. (developers.google.com)

Compliance and French-market cautions: processing EU residents’ personal data is subject to the GDPR; France’s CNIL publishes developer guidance and compliance toolkits and flags analytics/data‑transfer risks that affect choice of third‑party services. Map data flows, minimize PII collection, document legal bases, and run a DPIA for high‑risk processing before wide rollout. Start by piloting canonical/structured-data changes on a subset of threads, measure impact for 4–8 weeks, then iterate. (commission.europa.eu)

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Member Avatar for 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?

Member Avatar for 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,

Member Avatar for 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.

Member Avatar for damdamdam

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

Member Avatar for 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.

Member Avatar for rosario1990

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

Member Avatar for 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.

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