Web syndication

Background

It is difficult to attract visitors to your newly-created website, especially when the websites is not very large. SEO and other optimization techniques can be helpful, but there are limits to their use. For example, in order to attract links to you website, you need to have a high PageRank. This in turn requires high quality content.

Implications

If you can offer something that can be easily shared the task of attracting visitors does not seem that difficult anymore. Let's imagine you've got a database of some sort. You can share it with a number of people who can use your content to enhance the quality of their existing websites, or even build new websites based entirely on the content provided by you. For the right to use your database, they pay you a commission on their sales or on their ad revenues. The more affiliated websites you have, the more commission money you get. People are interested in getting your content because it's useful and the syndication works on a commission basis - they don't have to pay you anything if they don't generate revenues.

Potential users

People like you who want to monetize traffic.

Knowledge needed

• How to create a website.
• How to manage a database.
• How to create and manage users' accounts.
• How to manage online payments.