You Can Make Great Websites that Make Money

Maiden post in a new blog devoted to making websites that make money.  The focus will be on website design, niche marketing, and website monetization.  If you want to learn how to make a website that makes money, this is the place.

To people who are not technically inclined, learning how to build a website might seem like an impossibly difficult and frustrating task, what with all those silly <> tags and the strange terminology involved.  In reality, however, it's never been easier to make a website, and having gotten started, you might as well go the whole hog and learn how to make a site that makes money. 

Some of the topics I hope to explore in future posts include choosing the right Content Management System, free blogs and websites vs. the paid kind, tips and tricks for customizing your blog, making websites the easy way, earning money from affiliate marketing, and how to make money while ignoring those idiot social networking sites.

One thing I'm particularly interested in is taking an empirical look at websites that actually are successful (as opposed to those, like this one, that merely talk about it), and trying to deconstruct just what it is that makes them stand out from the crowd.  This involves taking a look at website design and seo practices as well as the actual content of the sites.

Really, I ought to pad this post out to some excruciating length to be strictly compliant with what I know to be the correct way to make money from websites (seo will also be a future topic), but since I'm just dashing it off as a way to dip my toe in the water, I'll let myself off the hook for now and wait until my second post to bore you at length.  I know you'll all be waiting with bated breath for my next post, which will be about content management systems and how to chose the best option among the big 3 CMS: Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal.