So a lot of people get stuck at the first step of building a website, which is getting ideas for a website to start. The key is to not over think it. Just pick one of your hobbies, get a good domain name, setup a blog on it, and post to it once per day so you start to rank for some keywords in the search engines. Then monetize your site once you have a flow of traffic with other people’s products (through ads or affiliate programs) or your own that you create.
The daily post you make can be short like Seth Godin style, or long and detailed. You can write about your thoughts, news from your niche, or new media on your topic like pictures and videos. The more you post, the more traffic you will get.
The second way is to look through the Top 100 Blogs according to Technorati. Go to all the sites in the top 100 listed there and you will definitely get ideas for websites to start. And just because someone already has a website on a topic you are interested in, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start a website about that topic. The most profitable topics have thousands of competitors in them.
The third way is to look at the top 500 most popular sites in the United States according to Alexa. This will give you ideas for all kinds of different types of websites you can start. Be ambitious, start a website that you think would be hard to create. The harder it is to build something, the more profits and less competition there will be.
And finally, watch some television. Think about ideas for topics while you watch your favorite shows. Try to pick a topic that could be popular with the social media crowd. Always be asking yourself if your website really is cool, and if its not, make it cool. Just about all websites that do well have a lot of effort and time put into them, start now.
Here is an awesome thread at the Warrior Forum on the Top Money Making Niches. There are tons of ideas there, have a look.
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