This is for French readers or French audience, especially in Europe and Quebec. It talks about French digg-like websites.
Our blog has hit the first page of major French 2.0 digg-like websites for approximately 28hours now . I think most of our French readers would like to know which sites seem to have taken much of the results. Keep in mind that the numbers are not on the same scale + I might be forgetting some other main digg-like French websites across the planet (any suggestions = make my day!).
As a comparison, our blog has just been launched early in 2006 and there are still modifications that need to be implemented to offer a better experience to our readers and do a serious pr campaign, but we try our best to offer a (almost!) daily posting meanwhile. We had very little traffic, +/- 500 unique visitors a month, yet we see a slow growth and we try to dedicate ourselves more and more to it...
At the time we speak, we've been "scooped" by Scoopeo.com and got 203 visits in 24hrs, we've got "fuzzed" by Fuzz.fr and got 147 visits, and we got "slapped" by Tapemoi.com and got 21 visits (although they do receive less traffic than Fuzz and Scoopeo, we also used a less attractive Title and we do believe it has skewed this result).
For a site who's been used of having 500 visits / month, it generated ~500 visits / 1 day, and this is only our first post; nobody had ever heard about the blog nor had it bookmarked.
Our blog offers a free 3rd party public statistic center that you can consult right there about the "event".
Any other suggestions?
Updates
Nuouz (English people should read: News), which actually calls your page into its own site (I felt a bit cheated here, although they offered me to send it to my friends, which almost comforted me for a while). Weird but it did generated us 23 visits so far.
Allactu (English people should read: All News), is a copy of TapeMoi.com, and doesn't have much traffic yet.
BlogMemes, another small one, still I like the layout more than the Allactu / TapeMoi. Still, this one has some displaying issues (whoever did the integration didn't bother looking at the client view!)
Digg-France.com also sends me a lot of visitors everyday
Digg-France is a spammy site... No added value and no traffic or link.. We've tested it several times and results were not really relevant.
I'm curious to know what was the amount of traffic/link you get.
thanks for your comment sarah
I recommend and encourage you to post some pages on the digg-like Waaaouh Buzz: Buzz.waaaouh.com
In France, it's a little digg-like that is very confident with Google.It brings thousands of visitors every day registrants.
EDIT : ow and this list offers several french digg specially with dofollow links ;) good linking
Yep, the link builders in my team are using wikio for French and German stuff, as well as Yigg for German.
I have to say that they definitely have their work cut out for them, given we're working with online casinos, french and german legislation, google slapping paid links around and the lack of Digg (when it comes to clout) style sites residing on French and German IP's and on French or German TLD's.
I found a nice list of on 3spots.blogspot.com - which at least offers up a few names. Now it's time for the interrogation and testing to begin.
I can confirm that the most famous Digg-like website in French language is Digg France as it is on top of all rankings, and when I digg a post on my blog I get thousands of visitors from this digg, what NEVER happened with any other Digg-like but Digg.com
Cheers.
Just referring back to this - another one which looks pretty strong is Wikio.
and Allactu may be no longer...
Thanks for this great list. I have a popular website (www.demotivationalpics.com) which gets over 5000 unique visitors a day, so I decided to re-make this site in french, (www.PasTropMotivant.com) It's just starting, but the lack of french equivalents of places like Digg and Stumbleupon makes it a lot harder. I've signed up to all the places you've suggested, and have started to get my first little amounts of traffic from those places. (I've literally just launched this in the last few days)
Thanks again !
Congratulations!
Compared to other languages like Italian, there seems to be more French digg-styles. I believe Blogmeme have thought about this, they exist in English, Spanish, French, Portugese and Japanese... Chinese should then be comming(?)
Just to complete the list: French Blogmeme:https://www.blogmemes.net/fr/ Quepasa: https://quepasa.fr/ Allactu: https://www.allactu.com/ (from https://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/04/all-digg-s...
All credit should go to Sarah (Sarah and Rebecca seems much alike), she's one hell of a dedicated employee here with her France influence, and she's the one who translated the last 2 articles (and who co-write most of our articles here at NVI).
P.S. I'm so eager to have some time to some changes on it!!! It needs some modifications badly.
Linkbaiting in continental Europe is a hard job at the moment. No big Digg, the blogosphere in Germany is small. ( From the Top5000 Technorati-Blogs are only 35 german blogs with the best ranked blog "Bildblog" on rank 146.) Maybe another year and it will be a little bit easier. So it is nice to see some linkbaiting "test balloons".
I'll post every worthy articles in the next several weeks, and I will keep the community in touch on how it reacts. Now, back to the dungeon to think about killer titles & content to write about (every man goes back to its cavern!). Cheers
Thanks for your congratulations Guillaume ... I would like to add some information about french speaking digg-like websites: - Scoopeo seems to be the leader followed by Fuzz and Tape-moi. - Nuouz (News) has been launched by a quebequer! (Stéphane Guérin), for maybe 3 months. Moreover, from my "digg-like experience", this website is the only one which allows an automatic post submission from your blog to Nuouz, through an RSS 2.0 or RDF (you have to be a partner of Nuouz before = contact the Nuouz team).
Congrats, Guillaume - I think you're the first SEO team outside the English-language realm that I've seen put the linkbait concept to effective use. And, considering that the French speaking online demographic is 1/20th (or smaller) the size of the English speaking one, those stats are really quite impressive.
I suspect, though, that there may be more "old-school" type portals in the French sector that get heavily trafficked. It might pay to invest in a savvy public relations person with experience (and language skills) in that arena.
Best of luck!