Online Book Promotion |
Empowering authors to self promote their books |
How do I find them? |
The following tools will help locate people and communities interested in the subject matter of your book.
| On the world wide web | |
| Yahoo | A directory listing the best sites on the web. It is an excellent starting point for finding a groupings of your targeted community. Local Yahoos are excellent for finding networking partners |
| Alta Vista | Robot search engine that logs all the text on every page on the net. Reads <meta> tags to assign ranking. |
| Excite | The most popular search engine. |
| MetaCrawler | My favorite. It combines results from all of the above engines plus infoseek and webcrawler giving you an excellent starting point. |
| In newsgroups | |
| Deja Vu | Allows you to find every newsgroup where your search word has been used in a discussion thread. Very useful |
| In email discussion groups | |
| Liszt | The premier directory of publicly accessible mailing lists. |
| NEW-LIST | A wonderful resource for finding obscure groups. You can sign up for their letter and be updated when a new list is registered. Very useful |
| Prodigy mailing lists | Many excellent technical lists can be found here. |
| Both email discussion groups and newsgroups | |
| tile.net | Comprehensive internet reference for Discussion Lists and Newsgroups. Excellent Resource |
| Reference.com | Allows users to find, browse, search, and participate in more than 120,000 Internet forums. Excellent Resource |
| Ezines or Web Forums | |
| A great resource for searching, it also includes a directory | |
In chat rooms |
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| Chat Seek | The "chat only" search engine. |