Chef_Brian - 8:26 pm on Jun 9, 2006 (gmt 0)

Most of my sites now include a blog, I often create static pages and place the blog in a directory folder.

Then I use a parse my rss feed to the homepage (static) to keep the homepage fresh.

I like to blog about time sensative topics and or hobbies I am intrested in. I have a blog for halloween, the tour de france, cooking and others.

Like any other webpage marketing it is just about understanding what people are searching for and giving them what they want.

I have been testing out various ad programs for revenue... so far the best I can do is adsense. Some sites however can do well with affiliate programs is your can get around google and how they now like to penalize sites with aff links.

I personally use wordpress on host my own sites, it takes a lot of work to get a site ranking but once it does your in the money. I am closing in on 3k a month from google, nothing to write home about however I have increased my earnings now for three months in a row.

July should be off the hook with the tour and then I have halloween.... after that I have my next niche picked out and will start launching that.

I think the most important aspects are understand what people are search for and creating pages based on those terms.

Also writing about stuff your passionate about ... that helps keep you going for the first 6 months with no income.

Cheers,