Beer Bottles: Earn from your Hobby

January 11, 2018 by Ray

The very first website I built was for my beer bottle collection, before 2000. I just upgraded it with new features and to make it mobile friendly. It is a good example of how you could earn money from a personal interest or hobby or activity that you enjoy and invest time (and maybe money) in. Visit http://www.worldofbeerbottles.com and see how hyou could take advantage of similar page content and plugins for a website to help others appreciate what you do and maybe even offset some of your expenses!

Beer Bottle Website Features

List of Bottles
Use to display your collection, list of business products, list of family trips, etc.
— It’s easy to add to my online spreadsheet, which can be sorted by Name of Beer, Nation, State, and even bottles that each of my friends donated.
Affiliate Ads
Earn by displaying ads/links that are similar to the theme of your website. Sell related products and services.
— Click my links to purchase beer & brewery related T-shirts, posters, home brewing kits and even socks from Amazon.com, eBay and of course Google PPC (pay-per-click ads)

History, Trivia, Famous Quotes
Provide additional content to to put your hobby/activity more appealing, interesting, fun and enjoyable to others. When visitors spend more time on your site, you have a greater chance of a “conversion” (contact or a purchase).
— I’ve interspersed ads within the content, so as people read it, they also see advertisements for related items. Maybe they’ll take my hobby more seriously when reading about brewing history or reading beer quotes by historical figures.
Beer Videos
Create your own videos, or embed popular ones from YouTube since they catch people’s attention. You will increase the chances of extra web traffic when they share with friends.
— There are many funny videos embedded on my website. And to add to the interest-grabbing, sex sells! …But so do cute little kids and adorable puppies and kittens. 😉
Discussion Forum, Bulletin Board
Make yourself an authority and create an interactive experience to build repeat traffic. Create and moderate a public or private bulletin board or discussion area, divided into categories.
— My new and improved Beer Forum is starting fresh, so not many posts yet. I’m using the same 4 broad categories for posts. Feel free to comment there.
Breweriana Links
Provide helpful resources to visitors to gain even more credibility and provide greater value.
— World of Beer Bottles links include breweries, beer games, other bottle and can collectors and of course, more beer merchandise.

If you’re in the Wilmington, DE area, stop over to visit my Beer Room for a personal tour. We can talk about attracting visitors to your business or hobby website. Contact me anytime.

Book Travel Online for Hotel & Flight Deals

June 14, 2017 by Ray

Wilmington Delaware online travel booking

Hotels, Flights, Cruise Vacations and other online travel booking items have always been popular internet searches, either for personal or business purposes. I re-designed a website I originally built over 10 years ago to sell travel services through my affiliate relationships with Travelocity, Hotels.com, Trivago, Priceline, and other vendors.

My new website is mobile-responsive and a great example of how anyone can monetize a personal blog or website, or add an income stream to an existing commercial site by placing text ads or banner ads to items that are related to the main theme of your site. Visit www.TravelUSAandWorld.com/ to see how I optimized it with my own keywords so that I had a chance of ranking in Google search results. Make hotel or flight reservations while you’re there, and you’ll be helping to support several gratis websites I’ve built for local Wilmington, Delaware area non-profits!

Contact me anytime if you’d like to brainstorm how to incorporate affiliate advertising or other income streams into your own business model. Of course, it’s more appropriate to add these types of links to personal sites, hobby sites, or home business sites where you’re not as concerned with distracting your visitors from the main goal of buying your products or services. For example, the first website I ever built was my www.WorldofBeerBottles.com. That’s where I first gained experience with adding affiliate advertising banners for beer posters, “Beer of the Month Clubs” and beer themed books & posters. Pitching related products or services is a benefit to your visitors and could even motivate them to buy from you if the see that you’re affiliated with a well-known brand!

Travel Agents in Wilmington, DE
In many cases, it’s best to book travel through an agency. I’d be happy to refer you to one of my Delaware area friends, so just email or call me at 302-633-1482. If you just need hotel reservations, last minute flight deals or a rental car, you’ll get the same great deals by clicking the links at Travel USA & World, which I specifically built as a shopping mall of major travel providers such as Travelocity, Priceline, Flight Network, Cruise Direct, Ticket Liquidator, and other travel links.

Travel Tips
To improve SEO and to make it visitor-friendly, I include valuable information such as travel tips and other useful information for travelers. Wilmington Delaware travel! There are articles submitted to me by other websites who were happy to provide me with business & pleasure travel ideas in exchange for links to their own websites. I feature the very first video I created over 12 years ago, along with tips for travel safety, trip planning and packing, how to get the best airline seats, airport parking secrets, vacation destination suggestions, and more!

Remember, you can’t just borrow some text and images and put up a junky site. Treat it as a business and put effort into quality content and search engine optimization including title tags, meta description, image alt tags, submitting to search engines and all of the other little jobs I include when building a website for a customer in Wilmington, Delaware or anywhere else in the USA. Adding travel posters helps me cross-market!

If you have a special interest or hobby to write about, let me help you share it with the world and you may be able to work in some affiliate links to websites to earn some revenue!

Posters & Wall Art Website Re-Designed

January 11, 2016 by Ray

Posters, graphics and wall art are a popular item to purchase online, either for personal or business purposes. I re-designed a website I originally built 8 years ago to sell posters and prints online through my affiliate relationship with AllPosters.com, the world’s largest poster store.

My new website is mobile-responsive and is a great example of how anyone can monetize a personal blog or website, or add an income stream to an existing commercial site by placing text ads or banner ads to items that are related to the main theme of your site. Visit http://PostersandWallArt.com to see how I optimized it with my own keywords so that I had a chance of ranking in Google search results. Buy a Wilmington DE motivational poster or a cute kittens poster or funny poster while you’re there!

Contact me anytime if you’d like to brainstorm how to incorporate affiliate advertising or other income streams into your own business model. Of course, it’s easier to add these types of links to personal sites where you’re not as concerned with distracting your visitors from the main goal of buying your products or services. For example, the first website I ever built (shortly after Al Gore invented the internet) was my http://WorldofBeerBottles.com. That’s where I first gained experience with adding affiliate advertising banners for beer posters, “Beer of the Month Clubs”, beer themed books and even unrelated items such as flowers and travel.

Speaking of that, I’ll soon update Travel USA & World, which I specifically built as a shopping mall of major travel providers such as Travelocity, Priceline, Hotwire.com, Hotels.com, car rentals, online airline tickets, and other travel links. To improve SEO and to make it visitor-friendly, I include valuable information such as travel tips and other useful information for travelers. Wilmington DE travel! There are even articles submitted to me by other websites who were happy to provide me with business & pleasure travel ideas in exchange for links to their own websites.

Remember, you can’t just borrow some text and images and put up a junky site. You neet to treat it as a business and put effort into quality content and search engine optimization including title tags, meta description, image alt tags, submitting to search engines and all of the other little jobs I include when building a website for a customer in Wilmington, Delaware or anywhere else in the USA. Adding travel posters helps me cross-market!

If you have a special interest or hobby to write about, let me help you share it with the world and you may be able to work in some affiliate links to websites to earn some revenue!