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.

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