Sunday, March 18, 2007
Using Web 2.0 to Generate Traffic to Blogs and Sites
Using Web 2.0 to Generate Traffic to Blogs and Web Sites
This blog post @ the Big List blog provides comprehensive blog resources that address the topic of utilising web 2.0 concepts to generate traffic to blogs and web sites. If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
Here's a pretty good blog post on the topic of using Web 2.0 ideas and tools to generate traffic to your blogs and sites. Quite a long list of web resources provided here. From the blog Engineering a New World
Go2Web20.net - A large directory of web 2.0 sites, quite comprehensive
A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website and Monetize it - The author, having experimented with StumbleUpon for the past few months and having had a good experience, has written this mini guide on StumbleUpon because he felt StumbleUpon had enormous potential in maximizing brand exposure while fitting nicely with a long term site building or monetization strategy. Read more from this blog post @ DoshDosh
Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Traffic Hotlist @ Alexaholic - excellent and comprehensive list
In a well thought out analysis of Web 2.0 sites, the traffic they generate and the usefulness of such traffic, this blog post @ Living Digitally says it is important to know what kinds of Web 2.0 sites and blogs are the real influencers for the domains you are / your blog or site is operating in. Interesting read.
An excellent analysis by Paul O'Flaherty on whether social sites such as Digg would end the domination of search engines in sending traffic to your site. Paul feels it is unlikely, what is more likely in his opinion is that a strategy that factors in the strengths of both search engines and Web 2.0 sites would be far more useful in the near future.
Web 2.0 - What’s the Next Wave? - Posted by Drew Meyers @ Drew Meyer's Insights blog - in the author's own words, "instead of hypothesizing about Web 3.0, I thought I’d focus on the next wave of Web 2.0 technology. This has been a work in progress for awhile, but I think I finally finished my thoughts." Drew talks about the trends in the following: (a) Merging of Blogging and Social Networking, (b) API’s become Vital, (c)Continued Rise of Wiki’s (user-generated content), (d) Mobile Web Applications Take Off, (e) RSS as a search tool
How to Get Traffic from Web 2.0 Sites like Digg, Reddit & StumbleUpon - a nice blog post from the Mind Valley Labs, provides a good introduction to the top web 2.0 sites and provides a few hints on how to write articles that can get you good viewership from these social / web 2.0 sites
Mobile Meme Trackers - A meme according to Wikipedia, is a "unit of cultural information" such as "...tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches." As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean "hot topic" or "the next big thing". A lot of people have a need to track the day's newest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to do just that - hence the meme trackers. The meme concept tracker is spreading to the mobile web, says this blog post @ WAP Review, and this post provides a roundup of current mobile meme trackers.
How Can Squidoo Increase Website Traffic? - from the Can I Make Big Money Online blog post
This blog post @ the Big List blog provides comprehensive blog resources that address the topic of utilising web 2.0 concepts to generate traffic to blogs and web sites. If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
Here's a pretty good blog post on the topic of using Web 2.0 ideas and tools to generate traffic to your blogs and sites. Quite a long list of web resources provided here. From the blog Engineering a New World
Go2Web20.net - A large directory of web 2.0 sites, quite comprehensive
A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website and Monetize it - The author, having experimented with StumbleUpon for the past few months and having had a good experience, has written this mini guide on StumbleUpon because he felt StumbleUpon had enormous potential in maximizing brand exposure while fitting nicely with a long term site building or monetization strategy. Read more from this blog post @ DoshDosh
Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Traffic Hotlist @ Alexaholic - excellent and comprehensive list
In a well thought out analysis of Web 2.0 sites, the traffic they generate and the usefulness of such traffic, this blog post @ Living Digitally says it is important to know what kinds of Web 2.0 sites and blogs are the real influencers for the domains you are / your blog or site is operating in. Interesting read.
An excellent analysis by Paul O'Flaherty on whether social sites such as Digg would end the domination of search engines in sending traffic to your site. Paul feels it is unlikely, what is more likely in his opinion is that a strategy that factors in the strengths of both search engines and Web 2.0 sites would be far more useful in the near future.
Web 2.0 - What’s the Next Wave? - Posted by Drew Meyers @ Drew Meyer's Insights blog - in the author's own words, "instead of hypothesizing about Web 3.0, I thought I’d focus on the next wave of Web 2.0 technology. This has been a work in progress for awhile, but I think I finally finished my thoughts." Drew talks about the trends in the following: (a) Merging of Blogging and Social Networking, (b) API’s become Vital, (c)Continued Rise of Wiki’s (user-generated content), (d) Mobile Web Applications Take Off, (e) RSS as a search tool
How to Get Traffic from Web 2.0 Sites like Digg, Reddit & StumbleUpon - a nice blog post from the Mind Valley Labs, provides a good introduction to the top web 2.0 sites and provides a few hints on how to write articles that can get you good viewership from these social / web 2.0 sites
Mobile Meme Trackers - A meme according to Wikipedia, is a "unit of cultural information" such as "...tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches." As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean "hot topic" or "the next big thing". A lot of people have a need to track the day's newest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to do just that - hence the meme trackers. The meme concept tracker is spreading to the mobile web, says this blog post @ WAP Review, and this post provides a roundup of current mobile meme trackers.
How Can Squidoo Increase Website Traffic? - from the Can I Make Big Money Online blog post
Labels: blogging, marketing, web-2.0
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