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With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, not only small and big companies are making big bucks by marketing and selling their products and services through the virtual world, many individuals are able to make enough money to supplement their incomes from their salary by having a personal website. On top of that, many of them even get rich or at least make a living out of it. A lot of people with a personal website can generate a few hundred to a few thousand dollars (US currency) a month, a handful of them even achieve six figure income a month. As for myself, I use my spare time to maintain a website about Visual Basic Programming and I am able to earn an income equivalent to half of my monthly salary every month after only about four months in the business, and the income is increasing month by month. So, How could so many of us can make that kind of money with just an amateurish web site in a relatively short time?

To be able to generate substantial income from a personal web site, the first thing is, you must make sure that your web site's contents are interesting and rich enough to be able to attract many visitors ,and also able to retain most of them. In this way, your website will be able to bring you good profit based on economy of scale. In order to create good contents; you must decide what should be your web site's topic or theme. You should work on something you are good at. For instance, you can do something about programming, sports and games, travel, books review, astronomy, health, education, any hobby, and etc. Next, do some research by reading books, journal, info from the Internet and etc,follow by designing a framework for your contents; get the main topic and subtopics properly arranged. After that you can start writing your contents. You must design an attractive template for all your web pages. You should also ensure it is easy for the users to navigate around various sections of your web site. You can use GUI-based webpage development programs such as MS Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and etc to accomplish the above tasks. Besides, you should also learn some basics of HTML so that you can customize your web pages better. After you have done all your web pages, you must get your web site hosted by a reliable web hosting company so that it will be available online 24 hours a day. Although you need to pay a nominal fee of something like US80, it is worth the investment and normally you can earn it back in days. Lastly,

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