PlugIM.com – User Driven Internet Marketing

User driven sites are the new way for bloggers, traditional retail sites, news portals and any other form of a website out there to get more traffic from and benefit from the exposure that it can generate.

There have been many instances of bloggers going viral or gain a sudden influx of traffic due to social and user driven sites like digg.com, slashdot.org, del.icio.us, wists.com, furl.net, newsvine.com and the list goes on.

PlugIM.com is a fairly new such site and is gainly popularity quickly. We use it as well to promote our articles. The interface is fairly in keeping with today's new wave of web design looks being labeled as Web 2.0. The system is set up so that any blog or site can submit links to their site, much like digg, across 5 main categories which are Business, Development, Marketing, Products and Search Engines. Of course it would also help if the links submitted pertain to those categories.

Much like what I wrote earlier about shuzak.com being a niché site and PlugIM is no exception. PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. You can submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page. If its internet marketing related, you plug it on PlugIM.

So when you submit something related to internet marketing you can 'plug' it yourself and it gets marked as 'plugged' once you do so. You can configure your profile to include information you want to be publicly viewable. Your 'plugs' are stored so yo can view them later on, along with being able to see what stories are being submitted in real time via the Spy function. RSS feeds are also available along with a newsletter subscription.

I would like the site to maybe add more categories in the future as it progresses as I'm sure internet marketing is broader than that, maybe even sub categories.

Also one major point about this site is that they offer revenue share to people who contribute in any way through google adsense. You can enter your google publisher ID and create a specific channel if you like to track it and enter the information in your profile account. That's it. Your ID is then randomly shown to different users and when they click you get paid, cool!

You can read more about them here.

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