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Get paid for all of your website traffic, no
clicks necessary!
What kind of website to build?
Well there are all kinds of websites that could be used to turn a
profit. Here are a few examples:
Retail Sites
You could build a website to sell a physical product online. I
have such a site, chilipepperapp.com. My product is one that I came
up with myself and I manufacture it and market it on the web.
However, you can sell things that you don't make yourself.
There are thousands of things you could retail online.
Another hot item for online marketing is information. For
instance, you could write a book and sell it as an downloadable
e-book. you could sell e-books written by other authors, etc.
Affiliate Sites
One of the better known affiliate programs is the one instituted by
Amazon. You build a site about a particular subject, then enroll
in the Amazon affiliate program. You then provide links from your site to certain books on the Amazon
site, books that are related to the your site's content. Amazon uses
special software that tracks who sends each visitor. If the
visitor buys a book, (or anything else for that mater), Amazon pays you a commission.
Affiliate programs are available for everything from clothing to water
heaters. For more details about affiliate web sites see my affiliates
web site page. My Chilipepper site has an affiliate program
for other sites to sell my product, and I've got sites where I belong to
other affiliate sites such as amazon.com and Commission Junction. To see my Chilipepper
affiliate program click
here.
Informational web sites
Informational web sites are ones like this one your are visiting
now. You provide useful information that people are looking for, and
then place advertising on your pages. Google's adsense program is a
good one for this. Informational sites are my personal favorite, because
once I get the site up, there is nothing else to do. I just cash the
checks when they come in every month. No messing around with credit
cards, customers, returns, etc.
Needless to say, informational sites cover a broad range of
possibilities. Do-it-yourself sites informing your visitors how to
accomplish some task such as remodeling a bathroom, or how to fix a lawn
mower etc. How about fishing and or hunting? Racing cars,
motorcycles, bicycles, airplanes might be good, or how about roller
blading or snow skiing. One of my sites is about taking ocean
cruises...and it's not doing badly.
These have been just a few ideas. Get creative and pick a
subject.
Once you've decided upon an idea or subject for your website you will
want to find out a few things before you actually build the site.
For instance, if it is a retail site, what product should you
promote? Is there a market for the product? Are people looking
for the product online? If it is an informational site, can you get
traffic to the site? If you are going to use advertising to generate
revenue, are there advertisers willing to pay for ads on your site?
I will of course, be covering these issues in the coming pages, so keep
reading. :)
Lets move on to choosing a domain name. Domain
names:
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