Creating and hosting a large website network: Most webmasters know that regular website traffic isn't usually very easy to attract. It's true that if you want to monetize your sites, you need to generate regular website traffic so you can develop an income from product sales, affiliate marketing, or selling ad space.
A smart way to generate a lot of regular, loyal visitors is to develop online destinations. These could be websites that are memberships and communities of like-minded people who will return to your site over and over in order to chat with each other and also provide free content for your site. You can also build a list of your members so you can email them with news and updates or remind them to return and visit your site again whenever you wish.
Before building your site, you'll have to find the best web hosting service to sign up with. Then if you're ready to begin, we'll check out a few ways you can easily develop some of these large websites.
1. Perhaps the most popular way to start web community is to install your very own discussion board. All you need to get started is a web hosting account that includes some free forum scripts such as SimpleMachines or PHPBB. These handy scripts can be easily installed from your hosting account automatically with just a few clicks and you can start posting content right away. After a bit of marketing you could build a healthy membership of people who can willingly contribute lots of content for you, and this unique content will in turn attract lots of free web visitors from the search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.
2. Another type of website community to think about is your very own social bookmarking site just like Digg. You can create a social bookmarking community site catering to your favorite subject to ensure that the visitors and the web content they add is suitable for your niche. These websites generate tons of traffic and can be built using free web scripts such as Pligg. Again your members will provide all the content you like.
3. Online video sharing communities. Imagine running your own version of YouTube where visitors can post their own videos, or watch and comment on videos posted by other members. These type of websites are usually very popular and are actually quite easy to build. Again you need a hosting account, preferably a kind of hosting account called FFmpeg hosting which includes video encoding software on the web server. Note that these plans are usually no more expensive than regular hosting plans, and most of these FFmpeg hosting plans also enable easy installation of video sharing site web scripts.
Many of these kinds of projects can be developed with budget hosting plans, but if the sites become very popular, and they most certainly can, you will really want to look into VPS web hosting which provides far more server resources for busy sites but still costs a lot less than a dedicated server plan will. Hopefully this brief article has given you a few ideas for creating your next online community site.
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