Website Ideas

Here’s an idea that you might want to consider when trying to think of your next website idea. How about purchasing a database filled with thousands of records for your local state or country. This can help you build a framework for a website that will not only give your website some structure, it can also be a great way to attract local business owners to your community. You can take this database and write a script to display it however you wish. They key here is to be creative and try to link the data in a unique way that noone else currently does. Perhaps, your script would create thousands of pages devoted to each city in your state and each of those pages would link to a forum category that would be dedicated to discussion about that local community.

Business owners listed in your database will most likely find your site at some point from a search engine when they go to see their visibility on the major search engines Google, Yahoo, or MSN. They will type in their business name into a search engine and somewhere down the results, they will find a link to a page on your website. Once they visit your website and see that you’ve given them some free advertising, they will likely browse the rest of your website to see what else you have to offer. You may monetize this website by offering business owners a banner ad for a section on your website that is devoted to their city.

Video posting websites are the big thing these days. After the success of Youtube, dozens of competetors have risen up and tried to attract some of the attention. If you’re looking for one of the hottest and fastest growing areas on the web today, this is it. Make a website where users can post their home grown videos and where other visitors can come to enjoy them. It’s a win win situtation for everyone involved. You can offer those who submit their videos a portion of the profits that you make from Adsense ads. This can all be automated via rotation of banner ad ids which takes all the hassle out of it. Many scripts offer this functionality already under the title of “revenue sharing”. There are also who scripts out there that advertise as “youtube clones”. Look on Ebay or other popular online web development forums and you can find a script that will get you up and running in no time. Of course, you could also have a programmer help you with this as well, but you should probably expect to pay a few hundred dollars in exchange for setting up a website like this.

After your video website is up and running, it’s really all about marketing it. You don’t have to spend any money doing this if you don’t want to throw too much into advertising consider articles writing, link exhanges, and forum signatures to advertise your new site.

Here’s how you can get started with this website idea. Go around to all your local restaurants and buy lunch or dinner. While finishing your meal, you can ask to speak to the manager or owner of the restaurant. Let them know that you want to list their restaurant for free on your website and ask them if they want to write up a short description that would be exclusive for you and your website. This is important if you are at all concerned about generating unique content that search engines love. If you simply use a description that is not unique and is copied from their own website or advertisements, then you can be penalized for duplicate content and your entire website could be flagged as spam. A second thing you can add to your website so that you ensure more content comes along as your website grows, is to add a reviews and comments feature so that others who have visited the restaurant can tell about their personal experience as well. Finally, you may wish to add a forum to the website where users can freely engage in chat about the entire restaurant scene, post food related jobs, etc. This could be a further income stream for you as you charge for job listings down the road as well.