{"id":2315,"date":"2008-11-06T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T20:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2025-06-06T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:41:59","slug":"how-to-find-social-networking-sites-devoted-to-niche-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/how-to-find-social-networking-sites-devoted-to-niche-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"How to find social networking sites devoted to niche topics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Social<\/a>During the teleseminar today on “How to do Social Networking, Run a Business & Still Have a Life,”<\/a> with BL Ochman, we offered two ideas on how Publicity Hounds can find social networking sites on niche topics:<\/p>\n

1. Do a Google search for “social networking” + (your topic). That’s\u00a0what I did this morning when searching for social networking sites for motorcyclists.\u00a0The entire first page of Google was filled with them.<\/p>\n

2. Pose the question to the LinkedIn<\/a> community. Many LinkedIn users are very helpful, and I’ll bet you’ll find more niche sites than you could have dreamed existed.<\/p>\n

Here are five more ideas I thought of after the call today:<\/p>\n

3. Ask the question on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Go to Facebook<\/a> and\u00a0search “Groups” to see if a Group is devoted to your topic. Then ask members of that group what sites they recommend.<\/p>\n

5. Create a Google Alert for the topic, and check the results frequently.<\/p>\n

6. If you’re posting comments at blogs that write about the topic, you can email the bloggers and ask them what sites they recommend.\u00a0Or tell them you’d love to see a post on that topic.<\/p>\n

7. If you’re posting comments at a blog,\u00a0include your question within your\u00a0comment.<\/p>\n

8. Search at Ning,<\/a> an online directly of social media sites.\u00a0 As of\u00a0 this writing, Ning has more than 1 million sites listed.<\/p>\n

BL was great, by the way. You can follow her on Twitter.<\/a> She even told us how she’s using social networking sites to promote the launch of her new website,\u00a0Pawfun, <\/a>that lets you design your own\u00a0T-shirt with\u00a0a photo of your favorite four-legged hound or other pet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the teleseminar today on “How to do Social Networking, Run a Business & Still Have a Life,” with BL Ochman, we offered two ideas on how Publicity Hounds can find social networking sites on niche topics: 1. Do a Google search for “social networking” + (your topic). That’s\u00a0what I did this morning when searching\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":9,"wds_primary_category":638,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[427],"class_list":{"0":"post-2315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-marketing","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41439,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/41439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}