Big Ideas for Successful Internet Business

These are a few fresh internet business ideas that I will not be trying, but I hope that someone will. The first arrives from people’s frustration with technologies like e-book formatters. They do not want to spend hundreds for the software, and even when they do, they’ve trouble learning to use it.

The result? A service concern that compiles e-books for people. You could even have buyers e-mail a photograph and story about each family member or friend, and make a photo scrapbook for them. Whatever the aim of the book, the idea is that the customer can easily download the book when done.
You’d also host it on your site for a year or more, with the download link on a page that only the customer knows the address of. They can direct people to the page to apply the book away, sell it, or differently distribute it to whomever they please. A larger contract may be doing the first highschool yearbook in an e-book format (probably already handled the time you read this).

<b>New Internet SE Ideas</b>

You might know that Google and other research engines give preference to sites that are older. It’s a part of their search algorithms, and probably a good idea. It does mean, though, that even the best site in the world on a given topic may be nearly impossible to find. This can also happen because the site has too few incoming links (another part of the algorithms).

A solution is a SE that gives highest priority to new internet site*. It might even drop sites from the results once they’re six months old, or perhaps always display those older sites on the bottom half of the page. The top results would always be the most relevant sites that are also the newest. This isn’t meant to be better than existing SEs, but to serve a niche they do not serve.

Why is this a workable internet business idea? Partly because it would be so different from other SEs would attract attention and usage. Perhaps more importantly, a lot of people would love to check regularly to see what new sites are out there covering “dogs,” “backpacking,” income making,” “baby names,” or whatever. Also, new site owners, expecting to show up in Google, would be regular visitors, searching for their own sites.

Another SE I would like to see is one just for shopping. Imagine searching for “leather coat,” and instead of getting sites that occur to use the words and others that method to optimize, you got 80-word descriptions of various leather jackets, always with the price and other important information. If done well, only fishing poles would be in the results when you typed in “I prefer to buy a fishing pole.”

It could be a paid-inclusion SE. The user just prefer to* buy something, without the usual information sites in the results or “Buy leather on Ebay!” advertisements. Results could be randomly presented to start, with the ones getting clicks rising to the top of the results. This would be a democratic placement similar to Google’s ads, but with enough info to make it more meaningful than five to ten-word sales pitches.

Can these fresh ideas work? Only time will tell, but I hope someone tries. In the meantime, I’ll continue writing articles like this to bring traffic to my sites. It has been the most profitable of the internet business ideas I’ve tried.