Question by i luv hockey: What is so good about making your own website?
I heard about AdSense Google and how making your own website can make you money? How is this even possible when you have to pay to put your website up?

Seriously, What is so good about making your own website?? Why do people waste their time with it?

Best answer:

Answer by Dilyan
You can have your website for free – blogger.com allows you to start your own blog and to add advertising on it — the rationale is that if you have large readers base you actually become opinion leader and people trust you for the things you say/write. Ads delivered by AdSense are contextual in their nature – thus, your readers actually can become buyers to the products advertised in your blog. In order to keep you motivated to continue writing, part of the revenues come into your pocket as advertising revenues.
The catch is that you have to have really huge readers base and your readers have to be really into buying stuff advertised on your website or blog. Few influential bloggers are working full time as bloggers and make over 100k per year — however, you have to be really really good at writing good and interesting stuff in order to make that amount of money.

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