5 Best Niche Affiliate Marketing Search Engines

Look out, Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search! With the growing number of people getting into niche marketing, more and more search engines are being created to search the wider expanses of the Internet and give a real, up to date look into what's hot, and what's not. These alternative engines are also easier to navigate, as they work on more direct keywords, and are likely to bring you relevant images, blog posts, product information, niche information, and anything else you can think of.

Here is my top 5 list of the best search engines to help you better research your niche market:

Technorati will always be the best in my mind, and I have a feeling that no one else will ever be able to compare, even long after it has passed on to the giant Information Superhighway in the sky. It specifically targets the wide world of blogs, sifting through all of the junk and finding only what you are looking for within the posts themselves. It's amazingly accurate, specific, and relevant, which is refreshing. Especially after using the other guys.

AuctionMapper is a brilliant search engine for all you niche marketing fiends who are looking to research the most popular products that are currently being sold on eBay. With eBay having been a favorite market research site for years for the serious niche marketer, it's nice to know someone made a more efficient, user friendly search option than what eBay themselves have to offer.

Medical and health related niches are probably the fastest growing on the Internet. While Healthline is a great choice for affiliate marketing especially, not everyone who gets into it are health professionals, and I have a feeling that if you are involved in this niche and reading this now, you are one of those many. Luckily, there is Healthline, a search engine designed and run by trained medical professionals who can give you the information you need in a pinch, without the doubt of wondering if it's another marketer giving the advice.

Clusty one isn't quite as specific as the others, and you can get a lot of irrelevant information when you use it. But it has an amazing clustering feature that will help you to get wider results to your keywords, and usually answer questions or give detailed information that is very useful, but you hadn't thought you would originally need. As far as meta search engines go, this is a great one.

Blinkx one isn't for everybody. But if you have a niche that relies heavily on video or audio to get you by, then it will be perfect, and sure to meet your needs every time. This search engine allows you to use keywords to find video or audio clips all over the web. The problem is that sometimes it can give you a few unrelated, or at least not completely relevant, search results, and it will be up to you to sift through them.