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OH OH No Website MoneyYou've read this far and you still want to have a website? Why? If all you want is a simple site for personal use you can get one at blogger, myspace, wordpress and other places and they are all free. You don't even need a host or site design software.Of course you also aren't likely to make a lot of money from a free hosted site. There are about 75,000 new blogs and forums started everyday. How are you going to compete with all of them on a free host. Most directories don't even like to link to sites that are on a free host like blogspot. If you just want a personal site for your friends to see and don't plan on using the site to make money then the free hosted sites and blogs will do just fine. If you want to make a ton of money you need your own domain. It just makes life that much easier and you can get one for less than 10 bucks. Keep in mind that these free sites do have another purpose tho. It's easy to use them to put links in to your important sites. They will also be from a different class C IP address and that's a very good thing. You can also link to them from a different site of yours to make sure they get spidered by the search engines. I have a few of these sites and that's all I use them for is links to my important sites. I also use places like del.icio.us, twitter, furl and technorati to get links to my sites and posts. I'm not convinced of the value of these places yet, no matter what the gurus say. A link is a link and even these are better than none but DO NOT expect anything miraculous from adding links to your sites on those web 2.0 sites. While search engines seem to love these sites I think the days of urls that go through to your sites are numbered. It's to easy to manipulate PR by using these types of sites and search engines sure don't like to let anyone manipulate PR. Spam is a problem for these types of sites and one way to limit it is to make all links nofollow or run them thru a cgi first. Then you get no PR from the link at all, no rise in the SERPS and very little benefit at all. What you do get is a miniscule amount of traffic. Not enough traffic that you can make a lot of money tho and if that's your goal expect this way of getting PR and links to your sites to be gone within a year. To many guru's are hitting on the web 2.0 thing and are going to kill it eventually. Personally I just use the web 2.0 stuff for the links. You can go out and find places, blogs and forums, web 2.0 places, where you can join in others conversations and subtly slip in your link but it's also a lot of work and you are liable to get called names and flamed for being a spammer if you aren't very careful. Plus the added chance of all of it going away when the SE are tired of the PR games being played. Personally I like sites with pages of information that are static and permanent. Then I like to put a blog or forum on the same domain, in a sub directory, so the SE think the site is updated often and they visit often. The forum or blog in a subdirectory will add some link juice and PR to your site and will definitely help your results in the SERPs. Keep in mind that no matter what kind of site you have, whether free hosted blog or a blog on your own domain, a free hosted info site or a huge site on your own domain you still have the same problem. How do you get traffic to it? Everyone has that problem. Technology has made it so that any idiot can put up a website and it seems most of them do. What any idiot can't do is make money with a website. It's work and without the work it's just a cyberspace paperweight. Some peope think that just because they put up a site others will visit it. Lol, not true. If you don't believe me put up a site and then do nothing but make a post twice a week to that site. Don't promote it, don't get links, don't do anything and see how much money you make. The answer is zip, zero, nada. You have to be found to get traffic, you have to have traffic to make money. Getting traffic is work, no matter what the guru's tell you. No matter how you look at it, if you want to make money you are going to have to work. If you don't want to do the work then don't bother to up up a site and if you do put up a website don't expect it to make any money. Just like in the real world of brick and mortar, if you don't do any work, you won't make any money. Figure out what you want to do, set a makeable goal and then go for it. Don't get bogged down listening to all the different guru's. Pick one who's philosophy you agree with and then work it until you are making the kind of money you want to make. |