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First you'll need a domain name! If you can pay the $1.99-$9.95, it's worth it to have a website in your own name like "www.yourwebsitehere.com" rather than a site like "www.yahoo.com/yourwebsite." It's more professional, easier for friends and customers to find, and better for the search engines. Plug in various names at Yahoo to see what is available.

Yahoo and Go Daddy are also great sites for hosting your website and you can get discounts for bundling your domain and hosting costs.

Affiliate Programs

A great resource for making money on the Internet through affiliate programs is The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People's Stuff Online It's the one book on affiliate programs that we would recommend to anyone. After reading it, we actually doubled our income the first month! It has great ideas on which affiliate programs are best and how to best identify keywords for search engine optimization. 

Have a website? Learn how to make money with LinkShare. A great affiliate program with reputable partners such as Target, Wal-mart, FTD, and Orbitz. Very user-friendly. You apply to programs that you would like to join and place their code on your pages. You are paid by commission on the items that others buy through your site.

Google Adsense We love Google Adsense! Advertising targeted at specific keywords on your site. You get paid per click. The ads pick up keywords on each of your individual pages.

clickXchange.com Affiliate Network - clickXchange.com, is a leading affiliate marketing solution provider. Web publishers maximize their revenue and site content providing advertisers with traffic, leads and sales. Currently 6 commission structures supported.

Websponsors is another affiliate with some great options. We especially love the Blockbuster deal! Maximize your web site's revenue. Click Here!

If you are looking for survey programs, opt-ins, and other click or lead programs to make money on your site, try Direct Leads. Directleads - Make Money!

A new affiliate program that we have recently joined is Shareasale.com. They have a huge variety of smaller websites, coupon, and sweepstakes sites.

:Looking for sites where you can make money for leads? Try Clickbooth, MaxBounty, CPA Empire or Hydra Network

OffersQuest.com - This affiliate network offers the absolute highest payouts anywhere!

Traffic Analysis

Alexa  An Amazon company, Alexa has free webmaster resources. The Alexa Toolbar will help you find other sites like that site that you are visiting. Publicize your traffic rank on your page or just use Alexa to help you check your site for broken links and analyze your traffic.

Scripts

Aardvark Topsites A great free PHP script for adding Top Sites to your page.

Want to add a message board or forum to your website? We use phpbb. It is free and fantastic! Great support and you can really customize it.

Are you looking for a great Amazon-type Review Script? We've been using their Five Star Review Script for our Movie, Game, and Book Review site.

Link Sharing

  Start increasing your traffic quickly and for free!

Advertising

Overture Local Match advertising. Drive business from the Web to your door. Sign up and get a $20 bonus.

Tired of inflated click prices? Try Search123. Sometimes you need to pay a little up front for clicks to get traffic coming through your site. It is absolutely not a requirement! But it can help if you are getting a slow start.

Web Rings

Web Rings can be a great way to bring in visitors and help your visitors find other sites that would interest them. We like WebRing. They have web rings ranging from sites in your city to sites around the world with your type of content.

Content

Obviously the hope is that you will have your own content. But if you are looking to pull content from other sites to keep your visitors coming back, we like Free Sticky. Free Sticky is a source of free and low cost content that anyone can use to increase the appeal, usefulness, traffic and eventually the stickiness of their website. Find games, news, articles, maps, tools, and more.

Stay ahead with Google Alert web monitoring! - Google Alert tracks the entire web for your personalized topics, sending email alerts of new pages matching your interests. Generate leads, monitor competitors, protect your reputation.
 

Want to be able to accept payments? A PayPal account will enable you to accept credit cards for a small fee per transaction.