Powerful way to to become a niche guru

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Let's face it - you've got a niche website that you created after a careful consideration of its potential / keywords and what-not. The only problem is that (almost) nobody is visiting it. You need traffic desperately. Sounds familiar? Then read on.

There are many ways to build traffic. And no, I will not be talking about any black hat methods or spamming. Today I am going to show you how to become a niche guru, which eventually will bring you traffic - via direct links and from search engines.

One of the best ways to establish oneself as a guru is by active participation in blog and forum discussions. This can bring you both direct links to your website (if owners of the target forums/blogs are not using the nofollow tag) or at least direct visits from interested visitors of other blogs and boards. Obviously, the condition is that you contribute valuable content, not useless one-liners in the style of "Hey, great blog".

The greatest challenge in this approach for many people is that they are simply unable to manually follow all the discussions taking place - it simply does not fit their busy schedules. Well, automation to the rescue.

I will show you three services that will let you stay on top of all the most recent discussions. Then, I will demonstrate you one tool to rule them all - just one tool to always be up-to-date with all the latest buzz. If you prefer watching than reading, just play the video now.

1. Tool no. 1 - Google Blog Search

This is actually my favorite tool to quickly search for the latest blog posts. Just enter a keyword relevant to your niche and sort results by date. You can also limit results to posts from the last several hours or days. When you find anything of interest, then simply navigate to the source blog and leave your comment.

Obviously, you can get results for your keyword via an RSS feed.

When I am saying "quickly search", I mean it quite literally. The Google Blog Search is lightning fast, which is its great advantage. However, it has less filtering options than its direct competitor...

2. Tool no. 2 - Technorati

Technorati has the same purpose as Google Blog Search - it allows you to find the most recent blog posts of any topic you like. Its advantage over Google lies in the filtering options that it provides. For example, you can search only blogs with some or much authority. It is helpful to filter out different splogs and other not too valuable blogs.

Its greatest drawback is in its performance - at times, Technorati can be very sluggish.

Also Technorati provides an RSS feed for any search term.

3. Tool no. 3 - BoardTracker

This is one of my best recent discoveries. It's a search engine focused entirely on searching forums. It currently indexes almost 40,000 of them and almost 50 million threads. It's great because it searches only contents of forum posts and nothing else so you can get very precise results.

As always, you just enter your keyword and sort results by date. At the bottom of the results page, you can find an RSS feed for these specific results. You immediately get all the latest discussions in your niche, conducted in forums that you've probably never heard before.

BoardTracker is actually extremely useful as a research tool and I am going to run a separate piece dedicated entirely to this service to show of a number of clever tricks that you can use to discover new niches or find ideas for articles in your niche.

Still, I've already mentioned three tools. Definitely too much for the average, busy internet marketer. Wouldn't be it great if there was just a single tool to aggregate results from these three sources, eliminate duplicates and sort by date? That would definitely be a Holy Grail of any niche would-be guru.

Your magic weapon

Well, guess what - there is such a tool that I've prepared specially for you with help of the wonderful Yahoo! Pipes service. If you had the patience to read until here, you will be rewarded with a tool to really boost your efforts to become a niche guru.

Just navigate to this special "forum and blog activity" pipe and enter your keyword or phrase in the field provided. Then click Run Pipe and in a second or two you will get results for your keyword from all the three services mentioned above, sorted by date, with duplicates removed.

Even better, you can simply click an RSS icon at the bottom of your results to add this feed to any RSS reader that you're using. By doing this, you will be able to monitor any new blog or forum posts with your selected keyword directly from your reader.

You can create such feeds for as many keywords as you wish.

Now just select these blog posts or forum discussions where you can contribute a valuable comment and do so, leaving a link back to your website. If you continue doing so for some time in any niche, you will see that the traffic to your website is growing steadily.

BTW, this can be one of the best methods to get your new blog / website indexed.

You can see all of the above in the video embedded in this post.

I hope that you will find this method and the tools useful. If you have any hints or tips, please leave them in the comments.