How to Come Up with Website Ideas

In this article, I'm going to tell you how you can come up with your own ideas for web sites, ideas, that, if you can realize them, have good potential for success. I'll also give you a few examples of where it worked so you'll know I'm not pulling your leg.

Despite what you might think, web site ideas are notoriously easy to come up with, and here's the secret:

Start with a web site you already like but is missing one thing you wish it had. Now go build that site!

Easy, huh? Well, the idea part is anyway.....

Here's a few big examples:

The Digg founder was a SlashDot user, but didn't like the fact that only approved editors could submit links. So he built a site where ANYONE could submit links.

This guy had used various match-making web sites and had gotten tired of paying for a membership. So he built PlentyOfFish, a dating site that was totally free. Ta-da!

At the time of it's creation, what CraigsList did was aggregate online classifieds that, at that time, usually charged a fee, and made them free. Ta-Da!

These are just three examples of sites that hit it big by taking an idea that was already firmly entrenched in the landscape and adding or changing one small thing. No doubt there are countless websites out there that started by mimicking the functionality of another site with something simple added. With the way the web is exploding, one of the best ways to leverage this method is to find a site that currently charges what it offers and build a version that does the some thing, only for free.

What are some of your favorite sites? What do you wish they did that they don't? Now... why aren't you building it?

Learn more about Internet marketing and blog advertising at http://www.Bloggertizer.com - a free web site that helps bring bloggers and advertisers together for the benefit of both. Dave Felts is an experienced web developer and Internet Marketer. You can reach him at webmaster-AT-bloggertizer.com.