Web 2.0 & the Many Social Networks—How to Work Them to Your Advantage

Wouldn't you love to have more traffic on your website than you ever imagined? This is the dream of every network marketer. With the help Web 2.0, you can easily generate traffic to your website. Web 2.0 is a platform that has developed a new technology enabling different applications, along with their many functions, to integrate with each other. The result of this great technology is that users can interact and share information with each other all over the world. Imagine being able to share your website with someone from across the globe. Some of the most popular online communities and blog sites are part of what Web 2.0 is all about.

Social Networking or social book marking sites encompassed by Web 2.0 include Digg, Del.icio,us, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, PlugIM, MIXX, Clipmarks, Sphinn, Metacafe, Reddit, Hubpages and YouTube, a video sharing website. If you've been on the internet for very long, you may be familiar with many of these and may even be a member already. Many of these sites are used as a way to keep in contact with friends and family members as well as share news, photos, videos and more. While you're having all this fun with these social networks, why not generate some FREE traffic to your site?

Everyone loves free advertising, especially when it can reach millions of people all over the world. The unique thing about these Web 2.0 sites is that they have many niche topics and markets that the members join. If you're selling dog supplies, you can join some of the niche markets revolving around dog supplies and share information with others that share your own interests. They, in turn, will be helping to promote your product. These social sites are like a gold mine for people wishing to give their site and products lots of online exposure without having to pay a fortune to do so.

While most of the online community sites mentioned are popular, you'll want to choose the most popular ones, making sure that you'll be allowed to post your URL. Once you've found the one you want to use (or choose several), create your free account and you can begin building your own community with users that share your interest. Post your URL on your page, join some niche markets and watch the traffic begin to flow. You'll soon wonder why you've spent so much time and money on other advertising methods that only drew in a few visitors per week. It's almost unbelievable how many network marketers aren't taking advantage of this free method of generating traffic. Many of them are even members of one or more of these social networking sites.

Many network marketers increase their chances of online exposure by creating a few different accounts under different user profiles and similar topics. Once these accounts are created, they're all linked together so visitors can get from one to another with just a click to your link. Whether it's as part of the niche market groups, in their discussion groups or their forums, you'll be amazed at the amount of free traffic you'll have driven to you site, enabling the sales to start flowing in.