Social news sites with a long term returns on investment..

Do you know that there are 380 social news sites in the web? But definitely not all of them can be useful to us.

I was very much impressed with an excellent blog post by Dosh Dosh on 48 social news web sites we can use to generate traffic to our websites or blogs. If there is one blogger that I want to emulate, that is Dosh Dosh. I admire him so much. His knowledge of internet marketing is amazing.

He has researched thoroughly all the existing social news sites, filtered painstakingly to list out the final 48 sites that deemed fit to spend our valuable time. He said that each site on this list is evaluated according to various criteria, including the no. of votes for each story and the frequency/date of submissions, all of which are indicators of user/viewer activity.

I am already using most of the sites on his list but I did find a few that are new to me. One such social news web site is I am Bored that has a strong focus on weird and offbeat news.

Read his article and share it with others.

How to make use of Social News.

It is no wonder that Dosh Dosh enjoys huge readership. I happen to read his fantastic article on 'Social Websites' and I envy that man's knowledge and of course patience to write in depth article.

After reading this article, I started looking at social websites that allow us to submit news stories with a different perspective.

I liked his explanation about social news sites:
"Social News websites generally operate via a wisdom of the crowds principle; groups of individuals with different points of views are able to collectively determine the value or importance of content disseminated through the community."

This is an excellent observation. I know everyone's favorite social news is Digg but my vote is for Sphinn and I really find pleasure reading Sphinn. The layout is good and the navigation is easy.

I concentrate on news stories about internet and web applications more than any other topics.
I understand that Shoutwire.com is slowly gaining rating.