Using WEB 2.0 To Drive Internet Traffic – Three Top Tips
Along with WEB 2.0 came a whole range of new jargon and slang to describe the building blocks and concepts that it introduced. Like all new ideas, it can seem a little confusing for the newcomer, and might even deter some from participating in it altogether.
To help, here is a list of three of the main building blocks of WEB 2.0. Buzzwords and systems that, if you take a little time to understand them, will make your efforts yield far better results.. After all it’s not just about getting a message across, it is often about getting people to act on that message in the way you intend.
1 – Tagging and Tags. Tags are like the keywords of a particular message, video, article or application. They are a “short cut” to understanding what it is about. As an example, if you produce a video about rock climbing you might choose “rock climbing”, “mountaineering” and “ascent” as three of your tags. This gives both the end user, and the engines on the web that categorize your video an idea of how and where to file it, and allow people to find it when searching under appropriate keywords.
2 – Project collaboration. You can think of many of the items posted on WEB 2.0 sites like Facebook and Youtube as “projects”. There is an original post, and over time others add to the discussion around it. Possibly responding with articles, videos or other media of their own, making the original post a “hub” for a whole topic where everyone can have a say and participate.
3 – Content syndication. Taking a message and using re-publishing it (with all the original owners links and credits in tact). Content management platforms like WordPress come with one press syndication buttons.
Syndication benefits both the original author, whose work is published far and wide, spreading the message. It also benefits those taking the syndication feeds, as they become an active part of a popular discussion or topic.
Of course WEB 2.0 has helped to increase the number of people on the internet by a huge amount.Finding a stream on internet traffic is now relatively easy.
The hard task is convincing them that your own message is one they should spend their time listening to.
With the massive expansion of WEB 2.0 social sites, comes easy and quick ways of driving internet traffic to your own web pages.
