Making use of communites

Network communities can be quite useful in driving targetted audience towards your website. This is not particularly useful, if your traffic is only going to help you in clicking ads and stuff. Because, the traffic you can pull from communities does not make it worth the effort to make yourself an authority on the subject.

But then, if you sell some niche products, then communites discussing related topics can be a good point to drive traffic. Suppose you sell pet products, talking in pet care communities can make you an authority there in quite a period, after which people may actually refer to your website in case of any necessity.

One of the most popular communities driven traffic has been for MySpace for music related websites. MySpace has a lot of music bands that have put up their music online and this serves as a nice place to start promoting your band.