Google search for your niche related blogs which have shoutboxes.

Chat- or shoutboxes on blog pages, how you could use them for promotion? I'm talking about in a way, where you are not going to be considered as pro-spammer, but kind of efficient way, so you don't have spent too much time with it.

My idea, this is actually development of Kid Tech Gurus tip

So original KTG's tip was this:

Type the following keywords in Google:

Cbox - allintext:[get a cbox]
Oggix - intext:"by. oggix.com"
Tagbox - "powered by tagbox"

My tip is:

Type the following keywords in Google:

Your niche keywordX + blog + allintext:[get a cbox]
Your niche keywordX + blog + intext:"by. oggix.com"
Your niche keywordX + blog + "powered by tagbox"

+ including one popular blog shoutbox here:

Your niche keywordX + blog + intext:"shoutmix"

So for example: 'blogging resources blog "powered by tagbox"'

And you get... oops! Check first result. So this was not KTG's own idea or it was just development of someone elses blog posting? KTG busted? Anyway, FYI... it would be allways nice to include source, when recycling someone elses older idea. ;) :D :D

Anyway... lets continue, so you can repeat search so many times as you can imagine good keywords related to your niche. When you find nice blog related to your niche, leave a message and maybe you could have shoutbox on your blog for webmasters to leave their response.

Since you search for blogs related to your own niche, I don't think it is so bad, you could consider it as networking.... or? :D :D

Anyway... I might give it a try, it is not such a bad idea, maybe twitter automated messages or feed flooding could be considered more spam than this idea. I think it is a nice and low cost method to network, specially if you are with low traffic and need to find new readers for your blog.

Any comments? :)