Essentially, I am looking for micro-communities on the internet, small niche audiences. Specifically for these micro-communities, I `want to find the top website for each community. For instance, for knitting, http://www.knittinghelp.com seems to be the essential resource for this smallish community.
once you done with this, please share such websites with us.
Hi,
If you use google.com to search keywords, you’ll find where the micro-communities are going to – the reason is because google ‘ranks’ websites by the number of links to them from other websites – like personal blogs and webpages created by members of that micro-community – so, if you enter “knitting”, you’ll find that the fourth entry is knittinghelp.com.
The only problem that comes up is that sometimes, spammers create links on websites they own or put spam on in order to move up their position on google – google tries to exclude data from spam sites, but sometimes they still show up. It’s pretty easy to spot these in the google results because they contain a lot of keywords in their listing, but often they’re just strung together without making any sense.
Hope this helps,
Mark
http://www.flickr.com in and of itself is an online community comprised of people who like to share photos. It is further broken down into smaller microcosims. Here is just a sampling of groups:
Knitting: http://www.flickr.com/groups/knitting/
Blogging: http://www.flickr.com/groups/webloggers/
chihuahuas: http://www.flickr.com/groups/52241959321…
food: http://www.flickr.com/groups/52240578442…
Each group has its own discussion threads about various issues. Do a search on anything and you’ll find a group
Yahoo has a great online community too. Check out: http://groups.yahoo.com/
China adoption: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/a-parents-…
food: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pantry_Cha…
humor: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fun-cyber/