Many people like to use social media sites in order to gain popularity, and to heavily increase their traffic if a story that they write hits the front pages of many of the top social media sites.

The problem with some of the social media sites, is that they don’t provide much search engine benefit, because they either use a redirection URL to connect people with your page, or they simply use the “nofollow” tag on your links. (What is nofollow?) Whichever they use, they pass on no search engine ranking benefit, and many of those sites have high PR.

When building links, having traffic sources in mind is a good idea, but your main focus should be links that have “dofollow” (What is dofollow?) because that will increase your search engine rankings, will should be your main goal for your traffic source. Millions of people use Google daily… why not bring some of them who are your for a site like yours, right to your site.

So, here are some of the best social media sites to use for both traffic and search engine rankings:

Digg (PR8)
Many people are already Digging their articles, so continue doing this.

Mixx (PR6)
Mixx is a great up and comer, which makes it a lot easier to rank your articles and pages on the front of Mixx, and you get search engine ranking benefits from your pages and posts being on Mixx.

IndianPad (PR6)
This is a great social media site geared towards the people of India, but since they are growing so fast in all aspects of the internet, this is a great market to reach out to. There are some technology articles on there that have nothing to do with India, that are ranking well, so you definitely have a shot!

Metafilter (PR7)
This is also a great site to submit your articles, posts, and pages.

Reddit (PR8)
A recommendation from a reader to put this on here… it looks decent!

I hope this has expanded your social media selection a little bit, and helped you to focus your traffic building efforts with your link building efforts.

P.S. Be sure to add your site to the profile pages on these different sites!