There are many ways you can begin an online bussiness and one of the more popular methods is creating small niche websites that have affiliate products or programs targeted to the audience. The reason this is one of the preferred online business methods is when you create a niche specific website and optimize it with long tailed keywords it is much easier to rank well. Creating a general business website will take a lot more work to rank well and you will have to work harder to hold top position. When creating any type of online business one crucial factor will be choosing where you host the presence. I like many choose either free methods or extremely cheap methods when hosting my websites and they would all end up being taken down.

When choosing a host I highly recommend choosing quality over quantity. You may end up paying a little bit more, but in the end it will pay off. The hosting company (Godaddy.com) I am going through now has 24/7 live customer service which means at any time of the day or night I can call and get help with my websites. For those who have absolutely no money to spend on their online business you can choose from many free hosting services. You should of course search for reviews to see if they have a good track record. Some of the free hosting services I recommend include 000webhost.com, blogger.com, wordpress.com, hubpages.com, and squidoo.com. All of these allow you to create a free presence and earn money with that presence.

Now to create an actual niche website it will be important to pick a niche that has long tailed keywords which have a reasonable amount of traffic and low competition. These are the key elements when picking a niche so be sure you check both. To check the traffic of keywords use Google Adwords Keyword Tool and to check the competition simply type into Google "inanchor:"keywords"". This search will show you the amount of websites that are building links directly for that keyword. You should also search directly for the keywords to see if there are any major websites up top such as .edu sites, .gov sites, and wikipedia. All of these are difficult to pass so if the top ten is full of them then choose different keywords.