Web 2.0 vs Html

Over the past three years I have been very successful in promoting affiliate products online. However in saying that there has been a huge shift in the search engines when it comes to Web 2.0 vs Html.

Ok so what am I basing this on, my own stats and search engine rankings. I have around thirty pages of Html that are specially for promoting affiliate products and up until around February 2008 every page was in the top 10 of Google. Something changed when I noticed my rankings starting to drop and not just by 1 or 2 positions it was more like 10 to 20 each time the search engines updated their search results.

You could imagine my thoughts all I saw was my affiliate business sliding away at a fast pace so I had to find out what was going on. After doing some research and trying to discover why some of my sites had slide away something stood out very plainly Web 2.0. And it really doesn't matter what niche you are in Web 2.0 applications are starting to rank very highly.

The reason I believe is that internet users are now being conditioned to the Web 2.0 application and this is proving to be very popular in the search engine rankings. Web 2.0 is also very suited to the Search Engines as content is constantly being updated y rss feeds and user comments.

Some of the more predominate Web 2.0 applications are sites such as Squidoo and Hubpages they have a tendency to rank very high with Google then followed by blogs that are hosted on their own domains not free hosting. Even though on occasion I have seen free hosting sites rank high which is a good indication that there is opportunity in that niche to get a page one listing very easily.

Something else I have found that is knocking normal Html pages down the rankings are when you have a very popular product and I will use Regcure as an example. The forums are being bombarded with specific questions about this product which in turn leads to fresh content many times a day. The result is the search engines are lifting these sites to the top of the search engines because of all the very specific posts being made about one product.

We all crave Google PR believing this will get us to number #1 but sometimes this just isn't enough to get you ranked high as I have found with the Html pages which are all PR3 I have web 2.0 sites that have Zero PR out ranking me on a regular basis.

I have also found that using a Web 2.0 Application such as this one Semiologic and using the plugins that come with it I can usually have a showing in the search engines within 24hrs not weeks using normal Html Pages. This alone can decide your fate online getting indexed is everything to an affiliate marketer.

Hopefully this will give you more of an idea of which format you should be using online when wanting to promote your affiliate products. You can still use Html but it will be a long hard road compared to using an effective Web 2.0 Application.