Looking for a Search Tool to Help with Finding Potential Networking Opportunities.

[BasketballHQ]

I am looking for a more effective way to network with similar websites to mine in order to try and do some guest posting or networking and I was wondering if anyone had some good tools for locating those potential sites? Thanks.

[gazzerman1]

I have not found a great many services that can help network people in the manner your looking for and have often thought about it being a good business idea.

However, I find twitter to still be one of the most powerful, the people that matter are on there you are able to search for them and you are able to contact them and once you find one Twitter does a great job in recommending others. On a website you just have a contact form or a phone number that takes you to a call handler/receptionist most of the time which can be like hitting a brick wall.

I do not feel that enough people are using LinkedIn for that purpose to make it as effective but it is also worth a try.

But I am not aware of some independent OTHER service that is out there connecting people by industry.

[RohitPalit]

You can use Twitter + FollowerWonk or Google (the search engine) + custom queries.

You can type things like these on Google to find potential guest posting opportunities:

"keyword" + "guest post"
"keyword" + "write for us"
"keyword" + "submit your post"
etc.

You might be interested: http://findmyblogway.com/finding-guest-post-opportunities/ (discusses about some unique ways)