Friday, September 5, 2008

Select a Good Topic For Your Website

You can create a website based on your hobby, occupation, interest, or things you like to do. The only limitation is your imagination. Chances are that if you are interested in a certain topic there are other people interested in the same topic. The main thing to consider is that you must have an interest in the topic and have some knowledge about the topic. Ask yourself some questions to build a list of topics:

1. What are you the most passionate about?
2. What do you spend a lot of time doing?
3. What are you good at doing?
4. What do other people come to you for help or information about?
5. Do you like to travel?
6. Do you like to take photos?
7. Do you like to write about a certain topic?
8. Do you like to watch movies?
9. Do you like to read books?

Once you have made a list of topics to consider then you can do a little research to see if this topic would be one that you could use to bring visitors to your website. You want to pick a topic that you can use to make money, so you also want to decide how you can use your skill, hobby, or interest to make money. Go through your list and think of ways that you could make money with each topic.

For example if you like to travel and like to take photos, you could create a website that reviews tourist areas. You could write a review about a hotel you stayed at and post some photos of the hotel and your room, etc. Every time you travel you can take photos of the places where you stay, eat, or visit. Keep a diary to make notes of the places and things that you liked or did not like. Try to think of things that others may want to see and explain why they might want to see those things. Take a lot of photos.

How can you make money with this website? You could sell prints of the photos you took of exotic places or animals. You could compile a book from all your notes and photos and sell the book in printed form or in electronic form. You could join the Amazon Affiliate Program and post advertisements for travel books and make money if someone buys a book through the links on your website. You could join Google AdSense and post Pay Per Click ads on your website, then you would make money every time someone clicks on an ad.

By monetizing your website, you could actually make enough money to fund your trips. Your website will grow every time you take a trip. The new content will add to your website and bring new visitors who are searching for information about the places where you have been. If you build a good website and fill it with content, then you could potentially make this a full time venture and travel to more and more exotic places.

If you write the reviews and post them on your website, then you could get free accommodations at resorts and other travel destinations. The owners of such destinations would want you to stay with them and write a review about their service, etc. This is good for them because they will get advertisement through your website and also the free gifts are a tax write off for them. You could send letters to the resorts and other travel destinations and let them know about your website and that you would like to write a review for them.

This is just one hobby that I have explored as an example. I have not covered everything there is about travel and ways to monetize a travel website. As you can see the limitation is your imagination and how well you can pursue the things you imagine.

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