Top Ten Favourite Social Media Sites

First things first, let me say that although I am an SEO guy I love social media to bits and have been involved with various sm sites for some time now. This post has been sitting on my to do list and at last I have found time to rank my top ten favourite social media sites.

I know there are a lot more out there that I haven’t added, so it would be good to see similar lists growing and perhaps we can gather a universal poll of our favourite social media sites.

Ranking Factors

I split the ranking process into 4 main segments each important to the overall score of each social media site judged. They are as follows:

Traffic : This speaks for itself how much traffic is a site capable of sending no matter if a submission goes hot or whimpers and dies lonely in some corner.

Community : Just how easy / difficult is it for a newcomer to make friends within the social media site. Is there a vibrant community willing to help or is the site tinged with cliques or worse is there a community that isn’t really social at all.

Linking Attributes : Are links nice and clean or nofollowed? Do they help with ranking factors? Does the actual submission rank highly itself?

Usability : What is the interface like, is it straightforward or loaded with tons of features to help you gain the maximum from the site. Is there a browser toolbar? Just how much thought has went into the development process to help the contributor add content to the site?

So, without further ado, I bring you …

Top Ten Favourite Social Media Sites

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	faves	Usability

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	blogging zoom	Usability

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	mister wong	Usability

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	mixx	Usability

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	propeller	Usability

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	reddit	Usability

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	nowpublic	Usability

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	sphinn	Usability

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	digg	Usability

		Traffic
		Community
		Link Attributes
	stumbleupon	Usability