Re: How do you start a website to make money?
domain hosting
depends on what you want to do. if it is only a .html-file or two there are many hosts out there where you can get a domain name and some mb webspace for very little. do you want to make a blog? you can start on blogger or wordpress and if you decide along the road that it is worthwhile get a domain + your own wordpress installation. do you want to create a big site? a content management system like joomla! is the way to go. do you need sql-databases? php? an forum software? ...you need to know what you need to decide what is the best option.
that said, dreamhost for examples offers a lot for <$10/month. and many of the goodies (blog/joomla/forum/shop/etc./etc.) are very easy one click installs. cons of dreamhost are: it is shared hosting and they had some downtime issues in the pasts months. but there are similar hosts out there. just shop around a bit.
traffic
SEO, link exchange, adwords, submit articles to ezine/goarticle and some of the thousands other article directories and make your site known to bookmark/link sites like dmoz.org & co.
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