Squidoo developed and marketed by Seth Godin. The idea about this site is that anyone can a squidoo website on any topic and Seth Godin believes that everyone is an expert in their own rights. Anyone can create Squidoo web pages which is also called Squidoo lens on any topic they like and add content.

Squidoo is build on other Web.2.0 technologies like Flickr and Youtube.

In this blog post I would like to present how to market your website and drive traffic using Squidoo.

1) Make yourself an expert - When Seth Godin decided to develop Squidoo he was trying to overcome the problem of not providing the right results when a search queries about it. Squidoo does exactly what he had in mind. Anybody can be expert in his/her own field and at Squidoo they can develop a lens where you can add your own knowledge and expertise on that subject in which you are an expert. So that a Squidoo visitors gets the information what they where looking for.

2) Traffic generation - Squidoo lens can generate massive traffic if your lens have important and unique information which people are looking for. Squidoo can generate traffic through the links to your blogs or websites. Squidoo allows adding text, images, website banners and text ads into your lens.

3) Article Marketing - If you have a very interesting articles which you have wrote you can promote that through squidoo which is very easy and cool. Squidoo allows you to add links module where you can list your own article on your own squidoo lens, all you have to do is type the URL of the written articles and Squidoo will immediately include the entire information without the task of re-entering.

4) Search Engine Love - Search engine like Social Networking sites since it user generate content so you Squidoo lens will appear on top of these search engine like Google, Yahoo and MSN and that in turn will drive traffic to your site. Search engine has high value to Squidoo lenses because of the fresh content updated every now and then. This is an easy and fast way of search engine optimization of your website or blog.

5) Add more Squidoo lenses - A key to increase traffic is to add several numbers of lenses which is keyword rich and go for long tail keywords which come up on top of search engines fast and drives massive traffic. There is not limit for add lenses in Squidoo you can add how much ever you want. This is an effective way to drive traffic to your website or blog.

6) Get high quality backlinks - Links are key for any website ranking in search engine. Squidoo lenses are very good link getter. Squidoo pages are very high page ranks and getting a link from these lenses can improve your search engine ranking of your websites and blogs.

Social Bookmarking is the new trend among Internet Marketers and also is an important part of link building and generating direct traffic to your site or blog. One of the most important reasons of using social bookmarking is to get the attention of the search engines for your marketing campaign.

If you looking about how to integrate Web 2.0 into your website and blog you can visit Web.2.0 Expo which is been held on April 15th till 18th in San Francisco. This conference bring in web professionals, marketing gurus, online entrepreneurs for sharing, learning and networking with other members of the Web 2.0 community. Check out their website at http://www.web2expo.com/ for more details.

Speakers include Jeffrey.P Bezos of Amazon, Eric Schmidt from Google, and Jeff Weiner from Yahoo.

TJ

What is Web 2.0? It is buzz going on the online world. The topic of Web 2.0 is actually a bubble on the web. So what is eventually the web 2.0 future as a whole? As I see the the prospective of Web 2.0 is that who the computing is done will change in the future and it will not be the same as it is today.

Twitter a recent entry to the Web 2.0 invasion is coming out with a cell phone interactive kind of service which enables you and your family member’s friends, co-workers can use text message using Twitter.com. Twitter is using a type of mobile technology which is going to combined by mobile technology. The future of the mobile web is a combination of mobile browsers, hand held computer, and smaller electronic devices which can access the web. When these technology gadgets becomes a affordable and available for everyone other devices will also join the Web 2.0 contingent like refrigerators, faxes, microwaves and more and also by that time reached when all these technology devices are connected to the World wide web. The name of Web 2.0 might not be the same what it is called today.

The major changes what we will see after the web 2.0 is introduced world wide will be the way people work, interact and how technology is used. What web 2.0 offers is an extension of the way we use internet today. It is going to be extremely beneficial tool of the future. What we are seeing right now is just the early phrase. People even won’t be aware that the changes are taking place because most of these changes are taking place behind the scenes. For a techie the Web.2.0 is a great innovation.

Web 2.0 is an evolution than a revolution. It allows everyone to communicate better with each other and it is seen as a next rational step on the World Wide Web.

The true beauty of the Web 2.0 is that a normal web surfer is strengthened with latest technology which was only access able by Big business and corporate companies Sites like EBay, Skpye and Craigslist is offer these technology to every day surfer that why people are getting excited about the Web 2.0.

The bottom line is Web 2.0 is still in its initial stages and shying way to show its strongest sides.

Please Leave your comments on Web 2.0

TJ