Facebook grew from 100 million to 200 million users in just 8 months. Now, the company has announced that it has gone from 200 million to 250 million in just over 3 months. In other words, despite its already massive size, Facebook’s growth actually appears to still be accelerating.

More important than the raw user count though is what users are actually doing on the site. And earlier this week, we reported that Facebook is also number one in terms of the amount of time users spend on the site, beating out the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft with each user spending an average of 4 hours, 39 minutes on the social network in June.

In spite of all that success, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg would like you to think the best is yet to come. In a blog post, he writes:

“Each person who joins makes Facebook better by adding a presence to the site that friends and family can connect with and feel closer to. For us, growing to 250 million users isn’t just an impressive number; it is a mark of how many personal connections all of you have made, and how far we at Facebook have to go to extend the power of connection to the billions of people around the world.

So today as we celebrate our 250 millionth user, we are also continuing to develop Facebook to serve as many people in the world in the most effective way possible. This means reaching out to everyone across the world and making products that serve all of you, wherever you are—whether through Facebook Connect, new mobile products and the other things that we are building. We’re grateful to have all of you with us, and we look forward to helping connect the next quarter billion people on Facebook.”

History suggests that someone else will eventually topple Facebook – after all, the title of top social network has passed every couple years, first from Friendster , then to MySpace , and then to Facebook. But right now, all signs point to the site continuing to dominate, as its size and scale has moved well beyond that of its competitors. Not to mention, it may even be starting to make some money.

Source: Mashable.com

Have you been asking yourself that question? Have you been looking through eBooks and blogs to try and find out the best methods of generating traffic to your website? Have you been spending a lot of time and money trying to generate traffic with very little result?

If so, don’t feel alone. Most people who are trying to make money online can answer yes to ‘all of the above”. You can get all the advice you want by reading SEO Blogs, eBooks, Forums, etc. Unfortunately, as soon as you think you understand it after reading one source, you go to another source and they tell you just the opposite.

All over the web you can find titles of blogs etc. with titles like; “PPC or Organic Traffic, which is better?” “Should you us PPC to Generate Traffic or go with SEO?” “Will PPC or SEO Improve My ROI More?”

You know, in politics, we are supposed to have several political parties to choose from, but it seems that we only hear about Republicans and Democrats and the media helps that along by asking people if they are one or the other like no other parties even exist.

On the web, the choice you are told about is PPC or SEO and bloggers and writers act like they are the only two choices you have for generating traffic to your website. So it is a good analogy. In a better political system, we would have several parties to choose from. Fortunately, regardless of what you have read, we do have more than two methods of generating the traffic you need to be successful with your online business.

Web 2.0 describes the new ways that websites can be developed to make them more interactive for users, new ways that people are now accessing the web via cell phones, iPods and other handheld devices, and new ways that people are finding what they are looking for on the web.

No longer do people just use a PC or laptop to access the web. No longer do they just use search engines to find what they want to buy. Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Mobile Advertising, Viral Marketing, and other new methods are being adopted by successful entrepreneurs and companies to generate not only highly targeted traffic, but highly motivated traffic as well.

Very soon it will be common for a person that wants or needs to buy something to simply pull out their cell phone, access the web, find what they are looking for, and buy it, all in a few minutes. Many people are already shopping in different ways and they are using the Internet in different ways than anyone anticipated.

People are posting to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking websites from their car, from work, while they are at a restaurant or club, anywhere they happen to be. They are not depending on search engines to help them find what they need. The friends they are making online give them recommendations. Seriously, everyone knows word of mouth advertising has always been the best method of generating sales. Social Networking and the Interactivity of Web 2.0 keeps people connected to the web 24/7 and all they need to do to find anything they are looking for is to ask and all of those online friends will point them where they need to go.

And they will trust and buy from a website recommended by someone else 10 times as often as they will trust and buy something from a website they found through a search engine or advertisement.

Are you up to helping people find what they are are searching for on your website? Are you using any of these methods to generate highly targeted traffic? The bottom line; Are you ready to adopt new ways of driving highly targeted and highly motivated traffic to your website?

BlackBerry users can now edit their WordPress blogs through a new application created for the mobile device.

It has been revealed that open source software, which was designed in collaboration with Danais, has been created for use with the custom web hosting service.

The platform can be used in conjunction with either WordPress.com or the self-hosted WordPress version 2.5.1 or newer, while it can function with BlackBerry models including the 8700, Pearl and Storm.

However, the creators have warned that the software is at the public beta stage, which means there are still potential bugs on the program that may need to ironed out in the future.

Source: Globalgold.co.uk