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Man, we sure hear a lot about Web 2.0 this and Web 2.0 that.
Web 2.0 is a buzzword that has been around for a couple of years now but appears to still be gaining momentum.

Here are som Web 2.0 fundamental bits of knowlege.
Credit for coining the term is given to executives of O’Reilly Media, apparently while brainstorming a bunch of names for an upcoming technology conference a couple of years ago.

The definition of the term “Web 2.0″, although often used in the Internet industry, is a little vague at best. Certainly, Web 2.0 sites often include interactive resources. Often of a “Social Networking” nature (that’s a whole other topic), they frequently allow users to share opinions, ideas, photos, videos, and Bookmarks etc. As such, this contrasts with more primitive, static information based “Web 1.0″ sites and represents therefore the evolution and progress to the next generation of “Web 2.0″ web sites.

These sites are currently of particular interest to the IM community who has discovered that these sites represent a new way of generating traffic for their own sites.

As well, quite a few Internet Marketing “Guru’s” have cought on to the wave and have begun to publish products teching you how to take advantage of the “Web 2.0″ phenomenon in order to generate huge amounts of traffic for your own Internet markeing efforts.

A few of these products are listed on this site and some of these have also been reviewed.
Among these are Michael Cheney’s “Traffic Videos” and Mike Worthington’s “The Web 2.0 Traffic System”.

Search engine spiders crawl the web 24/7, i.e. all day long. They crawl your website, examining, cataloguing and indexing your webpages and filing the results in gigantic databases.
These databases can be searched by using search engines such as Google and Yahoo! etc.
So what has this got to do with SPAM?
Much the same way as these search engine spiders collect and index the content of your site, email harvesting robots or spiders are traversing the web looking for and grabbing email addresses from webpages. Most often the only reason for doing so is to compile huge SPAM email address lists used to stuff your Inbox full of unwanted SPAM and to be sold to other SPAMMERS.
So what can you do about that?
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Learning about autoresponders, sequential autoresponders, scheduled mailings and email newsletters is the fundamental first step to using these tools effectively in your business.
Learning how to use these tools effectively will reward you in many ways, the most important one of which is that it will boost your bottom line to the max!

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