UnderratedSites.com - Get Some Publicity For Your Site

If you're frustrated that your awesome site isn't getting enough coverage or traffic, you may need to resort to an outside party for publicity help. UnderratedSites.com is a user-powered forum and posting site which lets users submit websites which they feel are not getting enough attention. The site is powered by Pligg, a web application which uses Digg-like technology that allows you to submit an article that will be reviewed by visitors to UnderratedSites and will be promoted to the "Published" area if it becomes popular enough. Until it receives enough votes, a submission will remain in the "Unpublished" section. To post, you'll need to register for the site (for free), and create a simple profile. Submit the url for the site along with a quick review, then give it a title and throw on some tags (the interface looks just like Digg's). Users hunting for a specific type of website can search by category (each comes complete with its own personal RSS feed) or by keyword. Currently, the site only has had a couple of sites submitted, so some search features will naturally be limited.

"UnderratedSites.com is a directory of great sites that are not getting the rating, coverage and the publicity they deserve".

UnderratedSites has a few features that you may not find on other community-based popularity websites. For example, users can subscribe to several different RSS feeds that are specific to a particular category of site; the "Blogs" category has a different feed than the "Employment" section, for example.

Really, UnderratedSite is not much different from Digg at all. The sites claims that it was created to promote sites receiving little attention (as if this in some way is unique), but isn't that exactly what every site like Digg or KillerStartups itself is doing already (and on a much larger scale)? It would be one thing if Underrated Sites wasn't trying to veil its lack of real innovation with taglines claiming to be a different kind of resource, but the site is just too similar to Digg to really be able to break out of the shadow of the community-based popularity giant. Additionally, won't the point of UnderratedSites become moot when a site becomes huge? Will they remove sites from the database once they reach a certain level of fame and popularity?