I first began submitting content to Seeking Alpha in early 2005, while writing for Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection, after I discovered their site while searching for financial blogs. Initially the site served as a small, yet central database where professional money managers and financial bloggers would submit their stories and offer feedback, but over time it’s evolved from a loosly knit patchwork of financial minds into a full fledge business run by CEO and founder, David Jackson.

Initially, I would submit what I felt where my top 5% financially based articles to their site, in an attempt to get real world feedback on some of the ideas that I write about. As the site has evolved however, so has my relationship with them.

After securing a landmark distribution deal with Yahoo! finance, Jackson brought in more employees and venture capital backing in an effort to develop the site further. For sometime, he had already been publishing conference call transcripts, which I found to be particularly helpful in researching companies, but he wanted to take the site a step further by helping to fill the information void that exists on many stocks not covered by major Wall Street firms.

Armed with financial backing, a distribution deal with Yahoo! and a more focused mission, Seeking Alpha began syndicating DavisFreeberg.com on a more frequent basis. Now, instead of submiting stories directly to the site, they subscribe to my RSS feed and are free to republish anything that they feel would be appropriate for their readers to see. While this gives me less control over which stories I’d like them to publish or not publish (there are times that they publish things that may seem inappropriate outside of the context of a personal blog), I’ve still been happy with the arrangement, in large part because of the social benefit that I see them filling in the marketplace.

There are many public companies out there and while the financial press gives extensive coverage to the major players in any given industry, some companies have very compelling stories to tell, but no way to communicate their message. By allowing shareholders, financial journalists and ordinary bloggers to share their unique insights and due diligence on these companies, Seeking Alpha is able to filter the vast amount of information being produced by the blogosphere into longtail niche categories where the people who care about the information the most, have an opportunity to read it.

If you would like to see a listing of most of the stories that have been published on their site, you can visit my Seeking Alpha profile and see anything that they’ve published since the beginning of 2006. While many of these posts are viewed in the context of financial coverage from readers of Seeking Alpha’s site, it is important to realize that they are only my opinions and were originally written for my own blog. I give Seeking Alpha permission to republish my articles, but have no control over which ones they decide to publish. There is no editor, no corporate resources and often times the commentary is tainted by my own biases. When any conflict of interest exists, Seeking Alpha requires that their writers disclose it, which is the same policy I use with my own blog.

If you are interested in joining Seeking Alpha’s network of financial journalists, you can contact them directly for consideration.