Getting More Traffic with Web 2.0 marketing

More Web 2.0 marketing tips:

1. Facebook.com – This is one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog. After creating an account, search for groups on your topic and join that group. You can join as many group and you can often add your link to the group page. The key is to not spam the group! Make sure you post quality, relevant comments that add to the group. Remember that both your name and your blog are at stake. You don’t want to get chastised for posting spam comments with links to your blog. This will really look bad for your blog and is a BIG NO-NO.
2. MySpace.com – MySpace is another popular way to gain traffic and links. Post a link to your blogs in your intro or any of the other About Me modules. Start a blog through MySpace and leave reviews of your blogs as you create them. Again, the key here is to add quality content and only then other viewers will take action by visiting your blog.
3. YouTube.com – It is so easy to make a video and post it on YouTube. Sign up, add your video, and insert several keywords and keyword phrases to attract viewers from search engines and YouTube searches. Add a link to your blogs and give a call to action in the video’s description. YouTube is well loved by the search engines and a great way to pick up traffic.
4. Del.icio.us – Del.icio.us is a popular bookmarking service. WordPress makes using this site easy – there’s a Del.icio.us button on every blogs! Just put the relevant tags and submit it. Just in case you don’t have this buttons on your blog, you can download the plugin and install it. You can see example of it in my blog under all my post. It makes it so easy to add your links after you write a new post.
5. digg.com – On digg.com, people share what they feel is the best stuff on the Net. Again WordPress has a digg.com button on each blogs. You can download the plugin if you don’t have on your blog.You might generate a little bit of traffic through digg, but the trick to getting real long-term traffic, and links from blogs that pickup on digg, is by putting up plenty of quality links and news stories. You want to digg not only your own blogs. digg whatever you consider to be the best of what the web has to offer and others will soon follow you by digging and reading your posts.
6. Faves.com – Faves is a really easy way to pick up links, and it also offers a browser button. After publishing a blogs, just hit the Faves button and add it to my list. When you Fave your blogs, you can rate it, add tags and leave a review. Take note for WordPress users – If your blog is hosted by WordPress, for security reasons, you are not permitted to add JavaScript to your blog. This means that you cannot add the slick JavaScript version of “Fave It” to your blog. You can add the ‘fall-back’ version of “Fave It”, by hand, to each post, but you cannot pass the url and title parameters so the user experience is not good.
7. Hubpages.com – Hubpages is a popular site where you create a Hub, which is basically an article. Within the article you can place a link to your blogs in a keyword. The key to Hubpages, is writing quality original content and not abusing the link system by over doing it. Hubpages shares their AdSense revenue with members, which is a nice perk. But just be sure that you don’t overdo with your links or your hub will get rejected. They are very particular about this but once you get the hang of it, it is a good way to get traffic to your blog.
8. Reddit.com – It is very easy to add your link, a quick review, and keywords with reddit.com. Submit a link to the mix for others to vote up or down and leave comments. This site is extremely easy to use and it only takes a moment to add a link. Remember to use good keywords when submitting your link, as this helps the right people find your blogs.
9. Stumbleupon.com – There is a Stumbleupon button on each blogs and you can also add Stumbleupon to your browser. Give a blogs a thumbs up or down, add keywords, and leave a comment. Stumbling your blogs can really bring in a decent amount of traffic if used effectively. You can get others to stumble your blog too. Do a stumble exchange in your group and you will see good flow of traffic to your blog. Again, if you don’t have the button on your blog, you can download the plugin and install it. It will be very useful and you will love it.
10. Zimbio.com – Zimbio is great! It is very easy to submit your blogs and add it to a related group. After creating an account, you have to browse for wikizine and join before you can post your articles for others to read.You can also use your RSS feed to put your blogs on autofeed – bonus!. Search engines like Zimbio, so you should be able to expect loads of traffic coming from zimbio.

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Be Better at Facebook Marketing Using the New Features
By Menno Spijkstra

Here’s a fact: If you are an internet marketer and you are not into Facebook marketing yet, I should tell you to right away get out of that cave where you’ve been hibernating. You are definitely missing a lot in terms of popularizing your online business and driving traffic to your site. There are millions of people around the world who visit Facebook on a daily basis. This social media site has been enjoying enormous traffic and influx of millions of new members each month. Looking at this at the vantage point of an internet marketer, Facebook marketing can indeed boost the popularity of your online business.

With the recent new design of Facebook, it made social networking more precise and easier. Personally, I believe this change has put Facebook marketing to a new level. You can have filters that will allow you to receive real time news feeds. Furthermore, the new design will allow you to separate your friends in accordance to their location or niche or affiliation. For those doing Facebook marketing, this is really a good feature because it will help in monitoring the extent of the network that you have built. If you have grouped and identified the list of prospective clients who are in your network already, you can devise a plan that will intensify your communication with them.

This will also make you see the part of your target that you have not tapped yet. In knowing such, you can then come up with ways and techniques on how you should approach these people and make friends with them. Just one important reminder though, choose these individuals carefully and don’t spam them. You can perhaps write a quick note and say why you want to be friends with them. This is will give a more personal touch to your Facebook marketing approach. If you are using the same account to get in touch with both your families and prospective customers, you can now segregate people according to your affiliations with them.

Isn’t this more convenient especially for someone doing Facebook marketing? You can also build your own social media community in this popular site. Your community must be related to the niche you are in so that you can attract more targeted members to your group. However, you have to keep in mind that you are not organizing this group just for the sake of selling or promoting your business. Instead, this kind of group is being organized so that members will learn more from one another, share their ideas on relevant issues, and extend help when needed. Don’t worry; eventually it will be easier for you to sell to this group once you have established a good reputation among your peers.

Social networking with Facebook is indeed more interesting now. Not to mention that we do our marketing more efficiently using these new features. With the new features, we must not forget the basic things that we have to mind in Facebook marketing particularly about enhancing your profile page and post links to your website. Maximize the benefits of these new features and I’m sure you will enjoy and profit more from this popular social media site.

The author of this article Menno Spijkstra is an underground Internet Marketer who has been successful selling products online for many years. Menno is now coaching people how to make real money online through his program http://www.IMachiever.com. This course includes a detailed manual plus 5 products to sell and keep 100% of the profit.