Traffic generation using Web 2.0 linking strategies and Web 1.0, still share a one thing in common, which is a visitor to your site. Regardless, of whether they came from one of your articles (a 1.0 linking strategy), or a post from your Hub pages (a 2.0 linking strategy), the end result was the same. Implementing Web 2.0 linking strategies, does require work on your part, but as you will see, some automation is available.

Social Bookmarking Sites

Social Bookmarking sites are a way for other to share things of interest with others. Due to their high traffic, you can easily get a flood of visitors to your site within minutes. However, care must be taken as to how you submit your blog post and websites, as you can easily be banned and blacklisted.

Here are some of the more popular ones:

StumbleUpon: Allows user to share their websites, videos and pictures. They have a toolbar available, which you can download to your web browser, which simplifies the process for URL submissions.

Digg: Is a community driven and news aggregator. People submit their stories and people vote or “digg” the story. The more diggs a story gets, the higher it ranks. Diggs are basically just votes.

Mixx: A news, video and photo sharing site.

Reddit: A source to what is news and popular online. You can also submit your URL’s here.

Onlywire: Bookmarking site that allows you to submit your URL posts with one click; however, you do have to register with each website that’s on the Onlywire list.

Recommended Method Of Submission

Before submitting your blog post or URL, submit 4-5 other blog post from other website before you do yours. Do try to pick high quality posts or stories, and not just junk links. If you only submit your links, you will get banned and blacklisted. Understand that this is a recommendation, so post responsibly.

Social Networking Sites

Ever since their inception, social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and Ning continue to grow. The concept behind these sites, was to facilitate the process of socializing online. All social networking sites offer a “personal page” where you can upload your photo and “about me” section. When done correctly, social networking sites can prove useful to your niche marketing efforts. If you plan on using any of these sites for your promotions, be sure to read and follow the rules in place. On Facebook for example, your are only allowed to have one profile, but you are allowed to add the URL’s to your sites within your profile. Facebook also has a strict policy regarding advertising. MySpace on the other hand allows you to create multiple profiles, but also have a strict rules regarding promotions.

Other Sources

• BlinkList
• Furl
• Bebo
• Yahoo Groups

Video Sites

If you have the technical-know-how, and are creative, you can create and submit your work to the video sites. The great thing about video submissions, is you don’t have to worry about hosting the content yourself. Even if you don’t have the technical know-how, you can always hire someone to do it for you. Some of the popular video sites are:

• YouTube
• Google Video
• MetaCafe
• Revver
• Grouper
• Guba
• Vidmax

If you create a video that goes viral, this method can easily bring you thousands of visitors. To automate the process, you can use submission software like VideoTrafficAssistant or UploadVideoPro.

Information Sites

If you have a yahoo account, you’ve more than likely have come across their own research site called Yahoo Answers. Sites like these allow anyone to post a question on any topic. Here are some the topics covered:

• Business & Finance
• Cars & Transportation
• Computers & Internet
• Consumer Electronics

The nice thing about Yahoo Answers, is they allow anyone to post a response to the questions made by others. In a nut shell, individuals are scored on the quality of their response and activity. If you build up your credibility by actively participating, over the course of time, you’d be able to bring some incoming traffic to your sites. Understand that this method is more of a long term strategy.

Free Blog Sites

Free blog sites are a cost effective method to traffic generation, since they cost you nothing to implement. The idea here is to post content, with “long-tail” keywords, which you then link to your website or main blog. An example of long “tail-tail” keyword, would be “dog-training-tips-for-bloodhounds”.

Examples of free blog sites:

HubPages

HubPages allows you to place two self serving links within your post or hub, but your post must also point to authoritative sites, such a wiki page for example, or a major news page. They also have strict rules about having different hubs pointing to the same website. On a side note, HubPages doesn’t allow any spam, adult, or gambling posts.

Squidoo

Squidoo is another free blog type site, which allows you to make posts or lens. The more unique your content the better, especially if you’re an expert on a particular subject. Google also loves Squidoo and frequently crawls the site and also has a high page rank.

Blogger and Wordpress allow you to post articles at no cost to you; however, there are drawbacks to not hosting the content yourself.

Some of the Pros:

• Easy to set up and maintain - no installation necessary

• Free to use and newbie friendly for the most part

• Easy to monetize for adsense

The Cons

• Lack of customization

• URL not very friendly - for example your URL is
  alwasy www.yourdomain.blogiste.com

• Not as professional as a self-hosted site

If you have to decide between the two, always go with a self hosted wordpress blog.

Final Notes

There you have it, implementing Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 linking strategies can easily bring you a steady flood of traffic over time, which can pay dividends to your email list and bank account. Not to mention that these are cost effective, which means, more money in your wallet. If you put into action these techniques, you can easily create a funnel of traffic to your site.

To better make use of your time, you can always hire someone to assist you with the process, if your business budget allows it. Most important of all…is to take action.

Recommended Resources

Here are some recommended resources to help you implement the web 2.0 linking strategies:

Web 2.0 Wealth System

This, in my opinion is ONE the most complete, and affordable blogging course on the net today, and is a great blogging course for beginners. Alex Sysoef is the creator of this system and provides a complete step-by-step video tutorial to get your blog started right away. The Web 2.0 Wealth System provides you with a pre-packaged word press blog (version 2.5) along with the necessary plug-ins to make your blog seo friendly. Go check ahead and check out the Web 2.0 Wealth System by going here.

Space Bankers

SpaceBankers, is a complete PDF guide that shows you how to profit from social media sites as MySpace and FaceBook. The creator of the course, Ryan Moran also provides video tutorials, which you can gain access to for free. Some of the topics covered on the free video tutorials include:

• MySpace Video Tutorial

• FaceBook Video Tutorial

• HubPages Video Tutorial

To make the most of your web 2.0 linking strategies with MySpace and Facebook, go check out SpaceBankers.

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