Most of us know how difficult it is to get into the high rankings of Yahoo and MSN, much less Google. You submit your sites to these but are you taking advantage of all available listing niche areas?
Keep this in mind. The niche market is for those who are looking for specific products. They are consumers with their wallets open. These are the ones that you want!
While they are slightly harder to attain through some search engines, they all do link together in some form. So let us look them all over and the value of each.
Blogs (For those writing blogs or articles):
When someone is looking for a niche subject or article these are the sites for those particulars.
Articles Base: Has over 400,000 free articles by almost 50,000 authors. You can submit articles while others can find articles for content to use for their newsletters or websites.
Article City (au): This site is similar with their community numbering in the thousands. Those that use the articles must publish them in their complete form with all of the links included.
Ezines: Ezines prides itself with being a matching service of experts (authors) and publishers. This site is widely read and gives you maximum exposure to many “loyal” readers.
Go Articles: This site is another free content directory of articles where authors submit to. Searching is through keywords (niches).
Blog Search: A place that lists blogs and feeds including: Google Blog Search, Ask Blogs and Feeds, IceRocket, BlogPulse, Technorati, Blogdigger, and more weblog search engines.
Directories:
The directories are pages that are people powered search engines, those that compose the pages. They are collected of pages with links and information for the most relevant content. The great part about these is the high page ranks.
Mahalo: This is a human powered search engine as well one that organizes its results for the most relevant links to the search query. Topics are in sections for ease and convenience which is also better for us.
The Open Directory Project (dmoz): Known as being the only 100% free major directory, it is also the largest and most comprehensive human directory. Like mentioned before, they link up to services with portals for Netscape Search, AOL, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds more.
Meta Search Engine:
This type of search engine compiles results from multiple engines. The point here is higher ranking, especially with Widow. Dogpile tends to have too many sponsored results at the beginning of their lists as opposed to Widow but should still be utilized. There are two others listed that also are noteworthy.
Widowsearch: Their results are not full of sponsors. You will find relevant niches quickly within the desired parameters.
Dogpile: As mentioned earlier this is a Meta search engine but you will find sponsor ads. What you must keep in mind with Dogpile is that it combines its results with Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, LookSmart, About and more. You must submit your site to them!
Clusty: A much overlooked Meta search engine that combines with it directories. This site searches a number of places but it does not include Google or Yahoo. I would still look into it.
SurfWax: Depending upon your niche this engine may be for you. It contains a mix of news sources, Government tools, and many other resources.
It is always a good idea to never rely on only one source, especially the niche market. Expand upon your opportunities to reach your market.
Author:
Sandi Baker
http://letusgetitdone.info
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