Building an Online Business Website
There are several methods used for making money from a website.
You may be looking to earn a little extra income from a website or to build a full time income from your website (s), here you will learn about the different types of website that you can build and the methods you can use to make money from them.
If you are new to making money online then starting can be very difficult due to the vast amount of information available that in most cases is contradictory.
You will see many money making opportunities advertised that sound good and may even work but are they really suitable to you?
Website Types and Theme
Firstly all websites should have a theme/or niche. The choice of your website topic or theme has a major impact on the money making potential of your website.
How broad or how narrow the topic/theme/niche will have a major impact on how easy it is to get free search engine traffic.
In general the broader the theme the more difficult it will be to get free traffic as the competition will be greater.
This in turn impacts the site size, as the larger the site the more pages are available to be ranked and in general the greater the chance of getting free traffic.
So the general rule of thumb is a broad theme requires a larger site (50+pages) and a very narrow only needs a small site (1-10 pages).
See Themes/Niches and Micro Niches
Traffic Sources
Just like an offline business needs customers your website needs visitors to make money. For an offline business the business location often plays a very important role. For a website the search engines usually play a predominate role.
Traffic from the search engines is available in two distinct forms -paid and free.
One of the main choices you will need to make is which method will you use to get visitors initially and long term.
See Understanding Search Engine Traffic
