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Web traffic is not guaranteed, but one thing is.

If you post good, quality content with the right keywords on your blog, Google will notice. Then depending on how long people stay on your site, Google will decide if you're an 'authority' on your niche topic.

If this happens, Google will index your site and literally thousands of people can then find it. This means that many quality prospects will visit your business online daily.

That said, Google can also be unforgiving. Depending on what you do, it can be "unpredictable."

If Google changes its algorithm or makes the standards for a so-called "authority blog" higher and yours no longer fits within these standards, you may be out of luck. Of course, Google also does not tell you what that standard is, exactly, so it's not as though you can adjust your own behavior accordingly.

What does that mean? Traffic can disappear just like that.

Luckily, we have Web 2.0 to the rescue, which can be much more effective and a lot quicker than a search engine in getting you tons of traffic. Blogs make it very possible for you as a business owner to take full advantage of it.

In Joe Vitale's Hypnotic Marketing 2.0 bonus interview, David Ledoux explains how he gets over 10,000 visitors to his blog, and over 7,000 of those visitors come from social bookmarking sites alone.

Had David sat back and waited on the search engines (like the old days), he'd be getting less than half the amount of traffic he's getting now.

Sites such as Stumbleupon.com, OnlyWire.com and Digg.com let you share your blog posts and articles with millions of viewers with one simple push of a button.

In addition, these social bookmarking sites are free and can produce amazing results if you use them properly.

However, there are a few things you must keep in mind before you go haywire submitting your blog content to them. The effectiveness of your blog largely depends on the community members on these sites.

In these communities, democracy is key. People vote your blog article up or down. If enough people like it and vote it up, the article becomes highly visible, which means that you get more traffic. It depends on your content and its quality.

If you blog with marketing in mind and you write things that really sound like ads or otherwise come across as very self-serving or otherwise scream "marketing," people will run away. Advertising and marketing really have no place when you share content on the site. People don't like to be sold "to," so you shouldn't try it.

Also, if it's just plain boring, it won't receive much love either. Make it interesting, funny, or engaging in some way. The trick is to tie your blog articles back into your product or service in someway. Creativity is key!

One good way to do this is to create articles based upon the calendar. Events, holidays, or seasons can be very interesting to write about. If you write about things currently in the news, this can also be very effective, as long as you keep it interesting.

Dr. Joe Vitale wrote a blog article titled 'Desperate Valentines', and wrote 15 things you can do if you're alone on Valentines Day. Once he launched it on February 14th and submitted it to Digg.com, he generated close to 20,000 unique hits to his blog.

The possibilities are literally endless, so make sure you blog to take advantage of this key component in Internet marketing, gone Web 2.0.

To learn how more about how Dr. Joe Vitale and David Ledoux use Blogs and Web 2.0 strategies to multiply their businesses quickly, check out their bonus interview over at Hypnotic Marketing.