Make money with Google. Technique #5. web 2.0 marketing.
Web 2.0 sites are now willing to share the profits with you, all you'll need is a Google Adsense account. Nowadays web 2.0 sites are all about the community more than ever. This means that most of the sites have their own built in community that you can join. In some cases these sites have millions of members. The big difference is that web 2.0 websites are more engaging, they allow the visitor to leave comments, vote for a page and hit a share button if they would like to share the webpage with their friends and family.
Once you start sharing your ideas by submitting content to these web 2.0 sites you will have a chance to get paid. Have you ever heard of Squidoo or Hubpages? How about Ning? All of those sites are web 2.0 sites and there's many more waiting for you. Let's talk about how you can make money with web 2.0 marketing, but before we do I should point out that the best thing you can do is own your own website or blog first, that is before you start web 2.0 marketing. From day one I looked at owning websites like owning real estate, but in this case you own virtual real estate. With that out of the way let's look at what you must do to get paid.
The most common way is to open a Google Adsense account, most web 2.0 sites will ask that you have one if you want to make money from your content.
For example, thanks to Google AdSense Integration Triond sends out a monthly income statement to each of it's members. This statement shows you how much you earned for the month. Squidoo has Google AdSense integrated as well but you will need to log into your account to view your stats. Suprisingly, some people really are making thousands a month just from Squidoo alone. But most people have never thought about earning that type of money on Squidoo.
Those that are making the big bucks with web 2.0 marketing are using Google Adsense and other monetizing methods which we will look at shortly. Another important factor to take note of is the niche that you are in, is it popular enough? The popularity and profitability of your niche will determine how much you can make with web 2.0 marketing. Regardless, your aim should be to submit quality, ground breaking news first, before others have a chance to. Just think about it, sites like Squidoo are receiving much more traffic than the average website. The goal is to leverage their traffic. The trick is to submit interesting news/articles if you want to win.
Let's move on.
In this next example I want to use a web 2.0 site called Digg. The site is called Digg because once you submit an article from your website people within the Digg community will either Digg it or simply ignore it. So for example, this post that you are reading can be submitted to Digg. Each time someone Diggs anything you submit your submission gains momentum. Articles with the most digs get placed on the home page. If your post lands on the home page of Digg you could end up receiving thousands of visitors to your site. So let's say that you are into affiliate marketing, what you would do in this case is place links within the content that you submit to the Web 2.0 site.
Those links will redirect anyone that clicks to your affiliates website or to the product that you are selling. As you can imagine, Diggs is one way to increase traffic to your affiliate's offer or your own product. Most people over look Digg. But today I want you to think about this, what if you mastered Digg, meaning that you were able to drive targeted traffic from Digg each and every week? Keep this in mind, you don't have to make it to the front page of Digg to benefit. Also, you can submit any page you want to.
In summery
This article was created to demonstrate the power of web 2.0 marketing. But the concept is based on leverage. You pin point a web 2.0 site and decide to become popular on that site, this is a much better strategy than hopping from site to site hoping to get lucky. Either way I hope you get lucky with your Web 2.0 site of choice.
