You can use another form of Web 2 site, social bookmarking sites, to promote your blogs. Examples are Furl, Spurl, del.icio.us, Blink and Technorati. Join these and ping your blogs whenever you make a new post. It is possible to automate the pings. You can also bookmark your own web pages on these sites, and use tag and ping to generate one way links back to your website.

You must make sure that you have links on your blogs back to a squeeze page on your website, and you will find social bookmarking sites a good potential source for opt-ins to your list. Since users of these sites frequently use tags to seek what they are interested in, you can attract visitors by judicial use of these tags on your bookmarked sites and your blogs.

Web 2 sites are growing by the day, and while they offer an opportunity to market your websites and products in a way that cannot be done using normal internet marketing techniques, it must be appreciated that they are social sites. People will be amenable to being ‘marketed’ but a softer approach is required with such sites. You will be more liable to achieve a steady trickle of visitors and sales than a sudden rush.

Keep it real, push slowly, and you will achieve steady but positive results. If you do not try to take over the Web 2 sites, you will be tolerated at worst and welcomed at best. Either way, they are a good source of potential customers and partners. Just use them properly.

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