How Do I Make Money with Web 2.0 ?

This topic is a hot topic this year with the advent of more and more social networking sites. But Web 2.0 is not just about social networking. Nevertheless, you yourself can have a Web 2.0 site and make a killing by dominating the search engines. Let me show you how :

In the past and is still popular now, web sites got their content from the Webmaster of the site, or from people the Webmaster would hire to write articles for the site. Even if the Webmaster hired people to write content for their own site, it still needed to be published in some way to the site and therefore to the web.

Blogging software from companies like Wordpress started to take care of the publishing aspect, but it was not as good as what you can have now. An updated way of programming on the web called Ajax sprouted up. This language uses a mixture of Java and Javascript to produce not only automated content for a web site, but it can do so much more.

The first thing to do for your question; "How Do I Make Money With Web 2.0 ?" , is either to learn Ajax or to hire a programmer to update your current site. It is critical to model sites like digg.com or de.licio.us in having a way to submit sites, a way to tag them, and a way to show users what is currently popular. Tagging simply means a category system in place for users to categorize selected items or articles on the site.

The voting system is also important. Users will need to be able to vote up or down for selected items or articles on the site. Once you remember how fast sites like myspace.com and youtube.com came up in web rankings, you will begin to understand how important it is to dominate your own niche on the web using Web 2.0. The fact is, if you do not do it, someone else will. Web 2.0 enables the site owner to have fresh dynamic content on their site without much work involved.

This same fresh dynamic content is what major search engines are looking for. This translates into free targeted traffic, simply because you followed the Web 2.0 model. Free targeted traffic is what the whole internet world is looking for !

Let me give you some more details. Lets say you have a site about dogs. The subject of dogs is way too large for the "old style" ( pre Web 2.0 ) of putting up a site, dominate your niche, and kill your competition. But right now, unless it has already been done as of this writing, you can put up a Web 2.0 style site on the same subject of "dogs" and dominate it. That is the power of Web 2.0. Making the user the center of the niche or site will make it immensely more popular to the world. It will attract many more visitors and rightly so, since their needs for information are being met by others who are like-minded.

There are other ways to make money with Web 2.0 online, but they require a little more work or expertise. What are they ? Another valid part of Web 2.0 is the ability to take applications currently done inside a personal computer or business network, and put it all online. An example would be the Microsoft program "Excel."

Currently you need to open it up on your computer, access the saved files, make a new Excel file or modify an old one, etcetera. If you can duplicate this online, you will have another winner. Inside-the-computer applications will be moving online. You will use the online app, save it online, and have it accessed online by those you want to have access to it. Its sort of like having the internet as your "desktop".

Do not wait to get your Web 2.0 site or application set up. Someone else is thinking the same thoughts as you are and may very well beat you to the "punch" online !