What Kind Of Website To Start
Note: When I first wrote this article I was making most of my income from third party sites like the ones above. In the past couple of years though, most of my income comes from sites that I own myself. Don't think that it is hard to start your own site or expensive to do so. Most hosting companies like Go daddy offer tech support who can help you get a WordPress site up and running for only a few bucks a month.
You can start a website about almost any subject but niche ones do better than others. For example you can start a site a website about backyard bird feeding and offer helpful pictures and information on the kinds of birds that may visit a feeder. Choose a domain name that has the key words your site is about. The example above should have a name like "backyard.com", to rank higher in the search engines.
Once you have made a website and have it up and running you can earn money from selling products like bird feeders through links on your site and earn by selling ad space.
One good potential money maker is to start an online store using the Amazon.com Associates program, which is a well respected associates program. Another is the eBay partner network which pays you a commission on sales on eBay from links on your site. You can get a domain name now for as little as $8 a year with free hosting at Godaddy.com, or Yahoo Hosting.
Avoid putting too many affiliate links on your website, since this may harm the search engine ranking. I have not been able to find out how many is too many, but I do know from experience that if you pepper an article page with too many commercial links it will get bumped down on the search engine.
Domain Names And Hosting For Your Website
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Once your site is up and running you need to submit it to Google and Yahoo, using the link at the bottom of their page, and using a free site submission service. You can also submit your site to the human edited Open Directory Project at http://www.dmoz.org
Selling Things on Your Website and Earning From Advertising.
A well designed website that features a good amount of unique information to visitors can easily generate over $100 a month from paid advertisements on the site, by selling products on the site by joining an affiliate program or direct sales using Paypal
Once you have your website up and running you can join programs like Adsense and start earning from relevant advertising on your website. You can also offer advertising on your website using sites like Projectwonderful.com to sell ads.
A great way to monetize your website is to sell items directly. Paypal is one of the best ways to accept payment for merchandise since anyone with a credit card or Paypal account can buy from you without you having to pay costly credit card setup fees. Paypal can provide you with links that you can place next to your merchandise so customers can check out and pay securely through their secure website, without you having to set up a complicated online store.
Partner and Associate Programs
Once your page is made and is getting traffic you can add an Amazon store selling related merchandise such as bird feeders, etc. You will get from four to fifteen percent revenue for each sale on a sliding scale depending on how many items you sell.
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