Almost everyone in the world today has unique business ideas or some kind of valuable information they want to share with others they have not a clue how to effectively convey to a mass audience online. This is where the awesome power of starting a blog or website comes in. The beauty of starting a blog or website with your own dedicated web hosting and personal domain is having the complete functionality over the look and feel and administrative functions of your server and site. That said, having those options available to you allows you to publish anything to your hearts desire on your site and increase the probability of earning income from selling ad space and affiliate programs on your site.
Copywriting continues to be a solid means of self-promotion in search engines like Microsoft's Bing.com, Excite.com, Google.com, and YaHoO.com. can you imagine starting a site and talking about almost anything in making money from advertisements while you continue to go to your day job or look for job in between? The Internet provides opportunity to everyone who capitalizes in the moment of making it work for them. Believe it or not, you can start a blog or website and write product reviews about your favorite stuff.
You might be one of those individuals who prefer dining out often at restaurants versus standing over top of the stove and cooking.
If you visit restaurants often such as:
- Applebees.com
- BobEvans.com
- CheesecakeFactory.com
- DaveandBusters.com
- FamousDaves.com
- Hoolihans.com
- iHop.com
- JuniorsCheesecake.com
- LonestarSteakhouse.com
- OliveGarden.com
- OutbackSteakhouse.com
- RedLobster.com
- RubyTuesday.com
- Sizzler.com
- TGIF.com
An example would be mywebsiteURL/iHOP
You would use the name of the restaurant as the category or what's known as a "sub domain name," whereas it would be easier for people to find category specific content pertaining to specific restaurants. Not only would you make your content easier to find by creating categories on your blog or website, it would benefit your long-term search engine optimization goals because search engines would be able to understand your site better and crawl it faster before indexing in search engine results pages.
Let's say you have a fetish for shoes. Imelda Marcos is allegedly a shoe addict. If you started a blog or website centered around the topic of shoes, you can break down the categories by specific names of shoe manufacturers such as Polo Ralph Lauren, Mezlan.com, Alexander McQueen, Belvedere shoes, Stacy Adams, and so on. Many people a day do you think search in Bing, Google, or YaHoO! for "shoe reviews?" with the shoe reviews site, you increase the probability of being found in any search engine on any search engine results page and make money from ads on your site. And believe it or not, this can potentially become a full-time online career for you with without a day job.
This post hopefully gave you something to think about when it comes to harnessing the awesome power of the Internet start and successfully run an online business. For more inspiration about starting a blog and making money from product reviews, check out The Mogul Mom by Heather Allard