subject: Local Community Website Profits [print this page] Local Community Website Profits Local Community Website Profits
There's a huge profit for internet businesses in the local markets.
Let me give you an example - build a website which is targeted to the local people of a city. Let's say the city is Camden, it is in the state of New Jersey in United States.
The purpose of the site isn't to attract people to the area or to inform people about any of the features that the city has to offer. Instead, it is use for communicating within the local community where the people of Camden can become regular users of the website.This way, they find information about local events and read reviews about the restaurants in the city and to keep visiting the website on a regular basis.
If the people keep visiting, you sell advertising space to local businesses and traders. This along with Google Adsense should generate a half decent income. So with the people of Camden coming back time and time again, you will be in a good position to put premiums on advertising space.
The local site can be directory as well.
A web directory in its simplest form can be thought of as a human indexed search engine. Humans can visit a directory website and make resource suggestions through an online form. A human editor will review the suggestion and add it to the directory provided it meets the submission guidelines for the directory.
A general web directory will have its resources sorted into a large number of categories covering a wide range of topics but instead of doing that, you create a local niche web directories tend to focus on one subject with resources sorted into a smaller number of highly related categories.
The major purpose of a web directory is to provide directory users with a categorized list of high quality listing on all kinds of details in Camden.
Search engine's also tend to serve up category pages from trusted web directories near the top of their search results so having your website listed in as many high quality web directories as you can should be part of any website marketing plan, especially when your website is new.
Another idea is having a 'wiki website'.
Wikis are community-edited informational sites, and they're showing up all over the place. The first was Wikipedia, recently known for an act of vandalism that made up one person's background. This incident was heavily covered in the media, and may have coloured the opinions of many people.
Wikis are proving themselves to be both valuable and accurate. They are also a great place to go for directory-style and in-text links to sites to deepen your information. Pretty soon, a wiki is going to be a natural place to go to search for information on just about anything.
With wiki website, you can even have the people in Camden to add content for you.
With local website, you can even catch the media's attention to give you free traffic you don't even need to make any promotion online.
