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#0, Creating a Niche Search Engine
Posted by Kurt on Apr-17-04 at 11:33 PM
While FatBomb will return results for just about anything, depending on your settings, you'll probably get better results create a "niche" search engine (or 2).

Competing with the likes of Google, Yahoo and MSN may be out of our league. However, what about more targeted "niche" engines?

How many great country/western music or photoshop search engines have you come across?

There's really not much difference between a general FatBomb and a niche FatBomb, except the niche FatBomb:

- Has a country/western theme for the graphics.
- Has a c/w "theme" for the links.

Instead of links like "Computers...Business....Travel"...

Your niche engine will suggest using links subjects such as:
Johnny Cash...The Dixie Chicks...Tobey Keith

Of course, using the search box, your visitors can find practically anything, but your site's appearance and the links you present will create the "image" of what you FatBomb to "be about".

You can even take out your search box, and "force" surfers to use only the links you give, further enhancing the image of a "niche".

Also, by selecting very tarteged subjects, you can now create your own database of targeted links.

Create a FatBomb database of 100 "hand picked" links to enhance your results.

Create another FatBomb database using link exchanges with other relevant sites and include these links in your results and pages.

From my experiences, I think you'll find other webmasters more likely to link to search engines/directories, as they see to think of them as a "honor" and don't perceive them as a competitor to their own site.

With this strategy, not only will you be building content for your FatBomb, you'll also be building links, and links can mean direct traffic as well as increased SE rankings.

You can also use www.buyitbomb.com from Bo to add c/w themed products and merchandise to add more stuff and revenue streams.

People interested in country music are probably also interested in cowboy boots.

FatBomb gives you plenty of opportunities to create a wide variety of niche search engine/directories and is really only limited by your imagination (and research).