Ok so you've decided you want to build a website and perhaps use it to make some extra income during this time of economic uncertainty.
If your looking to hedge your bet against possible job loss, layoffs or reduced work hours your could have decided on a worse idea.
Making money online using a website or blog is one of the most common forms of small businesses that are being created today.
However for each one that makes money there are probably 100 that fail miserably and lose tons of money in the process.
The easiest way to make money online is buy selling your own products, widgets, junk or other products that are you have easy access too.
The most popular places to market your goods are eBay or Craig list, but there are several others just as good.
If you want to make money selling from your own website instead of one of the middlemen your going to need to do your homework.
There is much more involved in creating a profitable website than just slapping up a pretty picture, adding inventory and waiting for the checks to come rolling in.
Your website will be worthless as far as making money is concerned if you don't get some traffic.
Getting traffic these days involves ranking high in the search engines and little else will help.
People that are new to web development and trying to gain position in the search engines need to take the time to learn from those that have already done it.
Don't pay a dime for advice, tools or products that guarantee to get you traffic.
They all will fail until you learn how to use them.
Do your research and study up on search engine optimization if you want to make a go of your new money making website.