There has been a lot of fuss recently, about new ways to generate traffic, under a general category referred to as ‘Web 2.0′. And it is commonly put forth as if it is some entirely new, secret and complicated system.
This is nothing more than ‘sales hype’. A Web 2.0 visitor, is st ill a visitor. And a Web 2.0 backlink, is still a backlink. The only new part, are the link-generating sites themselves.
These sites have only appeared in recent years, and they do ‘business’ in a different way, than the standard ‘Web 1.0′ types of sites. So let’s take a look at four different types of Web 2.0 sites – and how you can effectively obtain backlinks from them.
NOTE: In the following, AT denotes an anchor text link, while URL means just the raw link.
1. Social Bookmarking and Story Submission sites
When you have a great story to tell, there is no more effective way of getting the news out onto the internet ‘grapevine’, than by submitting it to the leading social sites.
Send your story to the major sites, and if it gets picked up and becomes popular, then it will have two effects: Firstly, it can drive thousands of new visitors to your site, a tidal wave of traffic that will last for a few days. Secondly, it will create some terrific back links for you from the social site itself (which is likely to have a very high Page Rank of 7-9), and also from everyone who takes your story to adds it to their site.
Get something that is provocative, innovative or challenging onto the front page of one of these sites, and you could see hundreds of new backlinks appear almost overnight!
For some sites however, all you need to do is just submit your URL. For some, you need to register. And for some, you need to download their toolbar or install their script on your site.
Here’s Some Examples:
- Send your story and submit your URL at Digg
- Send your story to Mixx
- Submit your URL at Reddit
- Submit your URL at Slashdot
- Send your story and submit your URL at StumbleUpon
Finally, Onlywire can help you with your submission to social sites.
You will have to Register at every site in the Onlywire list and add them to your Onlywire account. But from that point onward, you will be able to submit to Onlywire and they will distribute it to all the other sites. A huge time-saver.
2. Blog sites
There are several sites, where you can create your own blog for free. Then you can post content on your new blog, with a links that go to various related pages on your main website. These links then boost your main website’s pages. But in addition, if your blog ranks for its keyword, it can send traffic to your main website.
A good strategy is to choose your blog’s keywords to be very “longtail” (i.e. low competition).
Some leading examples:
- Create a blog at Blogger, and post articles with your AT.
- Create more than one “page” at Hubpages, and include your AT.
- Create more than one “lens”, with AT in the article body at Squidoo.
- Create a blog at WordPress, and post articles with your AT.
3. Research sites
The primary attraction of this kind of site, is that anyone can post a question, hoping that others will see their question and answer it. Or the reverse: anyone can post an “answer” (an explanation of a topic), hoping that others will come to read their “wisdom”.
So if you use these sites correctly, they can once again, bring you direct traffic plus high page rank backlinks.
Some examples:
- Answer questions in your niche at WikiAnswers. Enter your URL as “To answer with a web link, click here instead” link.
- Find a page on your topic “edit” that page and include your AT at Wikipedia.
- Answer questions in your niche at Yahoo Answers. Put your URL in “Source”.
- Answer questions in your niche at Yedda. Put your AT in the body of the answer.
4. Video sites
If you have the capability (and the time) to create videos on your niche, site or product; this can be very lucrative. You don’t even have to create a full-length video for the public video site. (You can put the full-length video on your own site, instead.)
Just record a short video, that entices the viewer to visit your site to see/hear more. Many people simply use their camcorder, digital camera, or even a camera cellphone.
Use your AT link at every opportunity: in your Profile, in your video’s Tag, and in your video’s Title. You can even “host” your video on YouTube, if you cannot post it on your own site.
Some examples:
Trust me, I realize this is only the tip of the iceberg. There’s literally thousands of sites where you can effectively get one-way quality backlinks for free and there are new ones popping up each day. The biggest problem most run into when embarking on this type of link-building campaign is the time and manual work it takes.
Luckily there are some awesome solutions for that problem (and one in particular that really kicks a**). For now, let’s just stick to the basics and leave that for another article.
Blatent Comment Incentive: Like I mentioned, there are literally hundreds of these new sites popping up on a weekly basis. I realized I only listed a few examples of each here – so if you have any to add to these (or 20 
) leave a comment below. If not, leave a comment below anyways because…
If you do, I’m going to give a report that’s just a few days old filled with 50 new hot Web 2.0 properties you can use to build some juicy backlinks to your site right now. All you have to do is leave a comment.
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This is a nice informative article My comment would be that there has been a lot of fuss recently, about new ways to generate traffic, under a general category referred to as ‘Web 2.0?. And it is commonly put forth as if it is some entirely new, secret and complicated system. This is nothing more than ’sales hype’. A Web 2.0 visitor, is st ill a visitor. And a Web 2.0 backlink, is still a backlink. The only new part, are the link-generating sites themselves.
Your article has a lot of information that is good enough to get back links, and I’m sure that this is something if implemented correctly can give good results. Thank you.
Thanks
another helpful, informative article. Always searching for new web 2.0 properties to help SEO rankings, I’ve found much on this site to learn from.
Looking forward to reading all the posts I possibly can on the site. The content is so valuable…
You made me curious – what is this kick a** software that you alluded to?
hi there.
this information is really useful.thanks
Hey Marketing,
I was alluding to SeNuke which you may or may not know. I used to use it heavily, but lately it seems to have lost a tiny bit of effective. Overall it gets the job done if you know what you’re using it for
Thanks for stopping by,
Bryan
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yes, it does. It’s a no follow link but we believe they count anyways…