Web 2.0 Properties and getting traffic to them

[supergirl]

Hello to All,

I have a quick question. I'm building my main website right now. I want to start getting traffic to it as quickly as I can without having to pay for it of course.

I hear a lot about creating web 2.0 properties, like Squidoo, Hub pages, blogger, ezine articles, etc., to link back to your main page to build links and get targeted traffic.

I actually have 2 questions:

1. Instead of doing a big linkwheel, is it okay to just build each individual web 2.0 property separately, then link it to my main website or should I create a link wheel?


2. And how do you get traffic to your web 2.0 properties? Does it just automatically come once you build them and create content for them or do you also have to drive traffic to them too in order to get traffic to your main website?

Thanks for your help!

[JMichaelZ]

With question 1 it is definitely alright to do it that way, just link back to your site. You do not have to link to the next site in the linkwheel.

With question 2, you migh tget some traffic from other users of the web 2.0 sites, but much of your traffic will come from the rest of the internet.

In order to get more traffic from the rest of the internet outside the confines of the Web 2.0 sites system, it is pretty much like any other page online. It needs some backlinks.

[LilBlackDress]

Originally Posted by supergirl

Hello to All,

I have a quick question. I'm building my main website right now. I want to start getting traffic to it as quickly as I can without having to pay for it of course.

I hear a lot about creating web 2.0 properties, like Squidoo, Hub pages, blogger, ezine articles, etc., to link back to your main page to build links and get targeted traffic.

I actually have 2 questions:

1. Instead of doing a big linkwheel, is it okay to just build each individual web 2.0 property separately, then link it to my main website or should I create a link wheel?


2. And how do you get traffic to your web 2.0 properties? Does it just automatically come once you build them and create content for them or do you also have to drive traffic to them too in order to get traffic to your main website?

Thanks for your help!

1. Yes you absolutely can build them individually or you can link among them. Building closed linkwheels can signal a pattern to Google is not such a good idea anyway.

2. You can build traffic to them the same way as you do your sites via social bookmarking, twitter, article marketing etc. One good way is to pick a few of the sites such as Hubpages where you can get involved in the social aspect and visit other people's Hubs and comment thus encouraging them to visit yours.

Alternatively...you can simply use these Web2.0 properties for backlinks (and not worry about driving traffic to them) and focus on driving traffic to your websites. The links at these sites would serve as a backlink to help raise you in the search engines.

Or you can always do a bit of both.

[cweber]

For my backlinks I usually either submit articles (use software it will save you time) or I use the ABC plugin thats in my sig. It works great and if you combine it with something else like say article submissions you will definately see a huge increase in serp rankings and traffic.

Best of luck.

Chris

[ScrapeBoss]

Originally Posted by supergirl

Hello to All,

I have a quick question. I'm building my main website right now. I want to start getting traffic to it as quickly as I can without having to pay for it of course.

I hear a lot about creating web 2.0 properties, like Squidoo, Hub pages, blogger, ezine articles, etc., to link back to your main page to build links and get targeted traffic.

I actually have 2 questions:

1. Instead of doing a big linkwheel, is it okay to just build each individual web 2.0 property separately, then link it to my main website or should I create a link wheel?


2. And how do you get traffic to your web 2.0 properties? Does it just automatically come once you build them and create content for them or do you also have to drive traffic to them too in order to get traffic to your main website?

Thanks for your help!

1. It depends on what you want to do. The major purpose of a linkwheel is to cover some footprints from Google when building backlinks. This is in order to avoid any form of penalty from Google. If it is a normal site with normal ways of linkbuilding, you may just create the links directly from the web 2.0 sites.

2. You can drive traffic to those web 2.0 sites and in turn bring traffic to your site in many ways. One way is creating rss feed from those web 2.0 links and then submitting them to the rss directories. Most of the directories have high pr and this will make you gt traffic from the search engines through them. That is the white hat way of getting traffic. If you want to go the black hat way, there are other strategies involved.

[supergirl]

Thanks to all your responses. Very helpful indeed.

[webgain]

web 2.0 is nice process to get good rank and traffic.
Just link back to your site form these sites.

[blogdecor]

Just submit your articles to popular web 2.0 sites & use the ABC plugin. Thats it.

[harivney]

When you create backlinks to web2.0 sites pointing to your money site, do you use the same anchor text that you would use if you were backlinking directly to your money site?

thanks