Promoting your website is a daunting task, but it has to be done. Especially if your trying to get targeted traffic. The best thing about the internet is that you can take your product or service from being local to worldwide in just a few clicks of the mouse. We will go over in this article some web 2.0 techniques that can be used to promote your website.

#1 - Use Social Networking Sites - One great way that you can market your website online is by using social networking sites. These sites can help you to generate a huge amount of traffic to your website. There are so many people who currently use these social networking sites to stay in touch with family, friends, business associates, customers, etc. With social networking sites you can establish yourself as a person that is credible and start communicating with people you add as friends to your online profile. Having profiles and blogs on sites like Facebook and MySpace can help you interact with people interested in your product or service.

#2 Get An Account With YouTube And Other Video Sharing Sites- Online video is the medium being used by everyone to get their message across. This is the best way to get traffic to your website. Creating video is cheap and inexpensive. You must be different and very creative to capture the attention of your users or your video will not have an impact.

#3 Use Craigslist- Craigslist is a good website to promote your business. Many users use Craigslist to search the classifieds for jobs, rentals, dating, etc. You can post your product and place a link to a video or an audio message to give people more information. We have other techniques we use in craigslist that you can get in our free newsletter below.

#4 - What Are You Waiting For? Start A Blog - Creating a blog is an excellent way to generate traffic simply because the search engines love fresh content. That is what blogs provide. Fresh content that can be spidered an indexed. If you make regular post with relevant keywords in your titles and descriptions, you have a high chance of ranking well in the search engines. Now don't make it a pitch fest! Offer good quality content that your readers can benefit from. Share your knowledge and offer yourself as a resource. It will increase your traffic with your reader base and help you to establish a good relationship with them.

#5 - Post In Online Message Boards - Online message boards can bring hoards of traffic to your website. Use this technique to build up your opt-in list. Become a resource to people and help them with their issues. They will seek you out and visit the strategically placed signature link that will take them to your opt-in page or website. Work hard in the forums to be a voice that is trusted and watch your traffic increase.

Each of these web 2.0 strategies is very important. In fact, when you use all these methods combined together, you will be able to successfully market your website online. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough room to give you more tips. You can get my free ebook, which will have more social marketing tactics for you to use in your marketing campaigns. If you don't have time to get it thats okay too. You can start using the web 2.0 marketing tactics I just gave you and start getting results now.