I have my own list of directories and I've given that list to one of my freelancers. He will submit six URLs to approximately 1200 directories of the next 3 - 4 weeks.

Each URL that he is submitting to the directories is part of my niche footprint.

I'm not expecting a lot of traffic from these links but they will help with link popularity and it will help to boost the Page Rank of my sites.

The total cost of this will be around $200 or 3 cents per link.

As well as my niche blog I've also established accounts and posted content to a number of other sites to help build my niche footprint.

These sites include:
Squidoo
HubPages
Google Knol
Wikidot
Blogger
Wordpress
Wetpaint
Xomba
Zimbio

I've posted content and added links to my blog to all of these sites. They will help with indexing, authority backlinks and of course targetted traffic.

I've been working hard to establish a "footprint" within a niche market that I've long been interested in but have never approached commercially before.

This is a long term project and I'll post the occasional update as the project progresses.

So far I've registered several domains, set up hosting accounts and begun to set up a number of different sites.

The first site that I've established is a blog based on the Semiologic theme. I've added a few...