Make Money With Web 2.0

To answer the question "How Can I Make Money With Web 2.0?" is quite at an early stage, but not too early to see it from a distance today. Web 2.0 is here to stay, and those who fail to take advantage of it in the next few months, or at least by the end of this year will be left in the dust.

For the past few years webmasters and marketers have been tuned to the latest in search engine optimization for their particular niche. Those who enter those same niches using what I will call the " Web 2.0 effect " will dominate those niches and the sales. This will effectively make the web a one-search-one-find place. You will have to search less and less for what you want online, because every one and their cousin will be busy putting content on the web 2.0 sites and leaving the old "static" web sites behind.

The "old" web went like this : Search what is currently popular to buy, hire a good copywriter, then dominate that niche with search engine optimization, and make your money. Now it will soon be like this : Have a product to sell, start up a web 2.0 site, and automatically dominate your niche. The question again : " How Can I Make Money With Web 2.0 ? " is really answered fairly easily. If you do not do web 2.0, you will no longer be able to be found in the search engines, which is what about 80 percent of people use to find everything they look for on the web.

Instead of asking : " How Can I Make Money With Web 2.0 ? " it may be better to ask , " What can I be doing to get my web site updated to Web 2.0 standards ? " . Its a much better question, in view of sites like myspace .com , youtube .com and similar sites rocketing to the top of web rankings. The web is the ultimate social machine, you should start making use of it in your particular business. Web 2.0 will be your next cash cow.

Here are some basic qualities of a true web 2.0 enabled site :

• Open systems. People can become members easily and contribute and take part of the site.

• A system or method to see what is currently popular on the site. Current web 2.0 sites use what is called a "tag cloud" .

• Members (users) can quickly view what others are saying enhancing the "social" effect of the site.

• Mashup. Okay... what is that ? Mashup is a fairly new word on the web. It is defined as the use of different mediums such as RSS, blogs, videos, or more to contribute to a site and its overall social effect. Think of it more as a mixture of technologies to input and update content to the site.

• Mobile connectivity. Web 2.0 will be making extensive use of mobile technology and a true web 2.0 site will make use of this aspect. ( See Twitter.com)

As of this writing " How Can I Make Money With Web 2.0 ? " is a fairly open question, and is in the initial phase of being answered fully. But so goes the web...once you think you have it down, it changes. Making money with Web 2.0 will be easy for those who jump in first, and of course harder later when slots begin to fill in the various popular social and business topics. It is imperative to start now.

Summary : How Can I Make Money With Web 2.0 ? Answer : Update your site, or make a totally new one that has the "Web 2.0 effect" . Do it soon, before your particular niche becomes dominated by someone else and those who stay in the old web will be fading away soon.