Sharing your content online is key to getting the word out in-front of many eyeballs as possible. Sometimes you have to spend several months trying to get your site noticed but keep coming up short, because of your approach and type of traffic you attract to your site.
Based on the tools I've used in the past 8 years, I came up with some Social and bookmarking platforms still used by search engines to rank your site for selected keywords. This platforms help you connect with others and share your content in specific niche markets.
This list doesn't include well known sites as Facebook, twitter, pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn etc. These might be sites you might've never heard of, until today.
Social Networks
With FourSquare, you can find the best places to eat, drink, shop, or visit in any city in the world. Access over 75 million short tips from local experts who have visited this locations. You can also create your own citing and ask for reviews.
Social Network.
APSense is a web 2.0 enabled social network designed to help business owners, online marketers and affiliates build their own personal business network of contacts locally or on a global scale.
Social Network
Diigo
Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Social Network
Edcast helps you build your Personal Knowledge Network and engage in a new culture of lifelong learning and education.
Social Network
Financial Juice is a live financial news and content aggregation social network site. They provide Real-Time market updates from most major news sources, bloggers, twitter personalities and YouTube all in one place.
Social Network
DO NOT IGNORE THIS PLATFORM
Enable sharing to Google+ if you cannot otherwise use the Google +1 button. Enabling users to share your content helps them engage with it more deeply and helps others discover your content from their friends. This can also help your content rank higher in search engine results based on keywords within the content.
Social Network
Hedgehogs.net is a social application platform for hedge fund and investment communities. They are a multi-million page website and highly ranked on top search engines like Google and Bing.
Social Network
Houzz
Houzz is a platform for home remodeling and design, bringing homeowners and home professionals together in a uniquely visual community to get their home upgraded to their wish.
Social network
Kik helps users share content quickly and easily with over 200 millions users on the platform (Bet you've never heard of them).
Social Network
Nurses Lounge is a professional network for nurses. Nurses can choose to stay connected and informed to people, organizations, and information imput to their careers.
Social network
Plurk is a social journal for your life. Share your life easily with friends, family and fans on a timeline like dashboard.
Social Network
ResearchGate
ResearchGate allows you to network with the largest global community dedicated to science and research: we help you to expand your contacts, share knowledge and find potential research partners.
Social Network
Yuuby is a social network to meet friends, share photos, links, comments and more.
Social network
Now that you've found more social networks sites to followup on, you can also use these high quality bookmarks to store and share your content online from anywhere.
Here are some social bookmark sites you should consider.
Social Bookmarking
Atavi is a free, yet extremely convenient, web service. Bookmark the websites you need, group them the way you want and sync the bookmarks with any device or browser, so you can access your bookmarks from anywhere.
Social Bookmarking
Blogmarks
Blogmarks is a social bookmark manager that allows categorization via custom tags. It offers several tools to share content, including synchronization with a weblog.
Social Bookmarking
Delicious
With Delicious you can keep, share, and discover the best of the Web, it used to be the world's leading social bookmarking service but has been stagnant of recent.
Social Bookmarking
BonzoBox
BonzoBox is a bookmark tool that allows you to save your bookmarks visually and build your own customized home page with live thumbnails of your favorite websites for easy access.
Social Bookmarking
CiteULike is a free bookmarking service to help you store, organize and share the scholarly papers you are reading.
Social Bookmarking
Favoritus can help you manage bookmarks online, backup bookmarks, save favorites Links. Users can also associate Icons with their Links.
Social Bookmarking
Folkd is a popular social bookmarking destination. Save unlimited bookmarks online and share them with your friends.
Social Bookmarking
Google Bookmark
Access your Google bookmarks from any computer. Google Bookmark lets you save shortcuts to your favorite webpages and navigate to them in seconds. Unlike browser bookmarks that are stored on a single computer, Google bookmarks are stored in your Google Account browser.
This means you can access them from any computer with an Internet connection from the Google Toolbar, the Google Bookmarks iGoogle gadget, or the Google Bookmarks homepage, which ever work for you.
Social Bookmarking
historious saves you time by helping you find webpages you saw before. Bookmark sites with a single click, then find them again by searching for any word in the content of the page!
Social Bookmarking
Indexor
Indexor provides a personalized homepage service that lets users quickly and easily bookmark there favorite websites.
Social Bookmarking
OpenTheDoor is a place for people to discover and share their favorite content from anywhere on the web.
Social Bookmarking
SpinSnap.com is a discovery engine. It allows you to discover and share new and exciting websites, music, videos and daily deals. Most people discover websites they would not normally encounter in their everyday internet interactions.
Social Bookmarking
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more, you can also add your own bookmarks and share with followers and on other social sites.
Social Bookmarking
Divine Tumenta is an entrepreneur and professional digital marketing expert based in Los Angeles. He has worked in digital marketing for more than 8 years. He is currently founder and CEO of backlinkfy.com and a go to consultant for startups and small businesses in the USA.