I guess the title says it all -- looking for ideas and strategies on how to build traffic and momentum for a social news aggregation site. Especially for one that is more niche-based.<p>Any examples of success outside of the big ones (digg, reddit, HN)?
Do what the Reddit guys did, create different accounts and post stuff under those account names to simulate the appearance of a growing community. Classic chicken or egg problem.
Fill in content, make regular updates with content - and if the content is well curated, people linked to the discussion threads will stay.<p>So you'll have to do the work of many at first.