Friday, July 29, 2011

Make Money Building and Promoting Websites for Small Businesses

As a Webmaster we have basic skills that are very marketable but there are times that we do not realize it. Something that many of us have thought about in the past but may or may not have acted upon is building and/or promoting small business websites.

Most small business owners have no problem spending a nice chunk of cash to get a website started for their business. Many spend thousands of dollars for 'Reputable' website creators who do nothing more than register a domain and make it look pretty.

If you take a look at your local phonebook you will probably notice that many small businesses have their websites including in their listings. Take a look at some of these websites and you will see exactly what I mean.

Many of these sites look really 'pretty' but do not even have title or description META tags, basic SEO, or the title reads 'Home'. These websites will NEVER achieve any kind of search engine ranking.

Anyone with some basic knowledge on website creation and SEO can make A LOT of money just by contacting small businesses, letting them know in a professional way that their website is 'SCREWED UP' and fixing it for them.

Most of these websites target a very small, non-competitive, audience that you can achieve top rankings with, with just basic SEO.

The best part of it is that if you are not confident with any aspect of the project you can just outsource it. Do what you are confident with and pay someone else to do the rest. You will most likely receive a very nice check from the company and you can still profit a lot even after outsourcing.

If you create a plan and present yourself well you can earn a small fortune with this technique. Many people have done it in the past and it is something that you will be able to do for as long as small businesses are around, which is forever.

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