This article is a reprint from http://onewebplaza.com . The reason why I’m posting this here, because I wanted to emphasize to my fellow OFW’s how important is owning a web site now and in the future. If millions of other computer users and Internet hobbyists from around the world are earning now, while they are at their own homes, then why not other Filipinos? Why would Filipinos sell their properties to pay unscrupulous job recruiters, to work abroad for their families, when they could stay with their families and earn money by using the powers of the world wide web? Below, follows the reprint:

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Top 7 Reasons Why You Need a Personal Website

Having a website of your own equals entering into an invaluable communication environment. There are at least 7 reasons why it is highly advisable for you to be present online:

1. Represents your personal profile
A website can be your virtual portrait, showing off your personal self to the world on a 24/7 basis. Among the most popular ways of presenting your personality online is keeping a webblog (otherwise known as online diary) or a photo gallery, where your friends can stay up-to-date with your daily living.

2. Spreads your voice across the world
A website can be your global “tribune” where you are able to share your knowledge, experience and enthusiasm with people who have common interests, but with whom you might not otherwise have crossed paths. A very popular idea-voicing tool is the discussion board, better known as “forum”. You can also have a guestbook on your site, where people can discuss your postings.

3. Lets you be in touch with people at a distance
A website can be a meeting place for making new acquaintances with people of different religion, nationality and age, as well as for keeping in touch with friends who may be on the other side of the world. Thanks to the almost unlimited online communication possibilities you can conduct one-to-one conversations with many different people directly from your website.

4. Broadens disabled people’s interaction with the world
A website empowers people with limited access, due to handicap or illness, to broaden their communication with others. A website can be a physically disabled person’s door to the dynamic world, allowing him/her to bridge over the difficulties of having a “different” everyday life. It can even be their office, where they can present and deliver certain home-made products/services directly from their living room.

5. Creates a web skill development environment
A website can introduce you to the secrets of www. The contemporary web design technologies have brought the art of creating a website just a few clicks away from the inexperienced user. Thanks to the popular WYSWYG (what you see is what you get) web design tools, absolutely everyone (irrespective of age or education degree) can build their own web page without any previous experience.

6. Makes extra profit for you with minimum investment on your part
A website can make residual profit for you, while you are sleeping or enjoying your free time. Thanks to the up-to-date techniques for bringing traffic to your website, you can earn easy money by simply having visitors click on certain product/service promos or links that are relevant to your site content pages (e.g. Google Adsense/Adwords ad solutions) without any initial investment.

7. Makes you a member of the biggest community of the world
A website is a must-have personal attribute nowadays, just like mobile phones and computers are. The fast developing technologies have converted having a website from a whim into a modern necessity. As of today, almost everyone has a web site, whereas twice as many people are expected to be having their own personal space in the global World Wide Web cosmos in the near future. Be forward-thinking, join this trend.

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As I’ve told you in one of my previous articles (Moneymaking You Could Start in 2010) here, you could start owning a free blog site by opening accounts in either Google.com or WordPress.com and start your own free personal blog as a starter. Once you’re already comfortable playing around, doing your blogging from free sites in Google and WordPress.com, I advise you to get the service of this powweb advertised above and below this article. It’s very easy to build your own commercial web site at this web provider. This WordPress blog you are reading now is just one of the blog programs powweb have for you. And since we have the same web provider, you could personally email me to seek advise and solutions if you encounter a problem. Imagine at $3.88 per month this powweb service is cheaper than a Burger King Whopper meal.

How do you maximize usage of your web site with huge hard disk space from your provider, when you have limited time to write more articles that will fill it up? One way to do it is by filling it up with free reprints of articles by other Internet experts and pros. Aside from filling up a web site with freely distributable ezine articles from different sources, I found another innovation which would surely be likened by busy entrepreneurs like you. The strategy is by publishing a photo gallery section in your web site. From my weekend hobby of going around New York City, and taking pictures with my digital camera since 1999, I found this collection of pictures very useful in making my web site “magnetic” and enjoyable to visitors. What’s more amazing is that in each page with a postcard size picture, I could insert banner ads and text ads from affiliate partners, which is another source of income for an internet-based business.

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My digital photo gallery is like a movie presentation, which makes my visitors enjoy the beauty of my carefully selected digital pictures. But in each picture page there is a banner ad and a text ad which advertises either my products and services or the products of my affiliate partners. So, aside from building a virtual mall in my web site, I built a virtual theme park, too, by using my collection of digital pictures. It’s like a tourist spot you could visit anytime. The only difference is that it’s free, and you experience the sceneries in front of your computer.

It’s easier to create photo galleries now for the web, because these programs come with the purchase of digital cameras. If you want to try this marketing idea, but you have limited pictures for the gallery, you could visit some photo gallery web sites who offer free downloads of their photo collections. One good name I could recommend to you is businessmate.com. However, if you have a collection of your own digital pictures now, don’t just keep them in your hard disks. Use them as HTML pages that could make your web site content-rich and favorite of the search engine robots. It’s faster to build hundreds of web pages from these pictures, than the time-consuming writing articles. But don’t forget to place the right key terms in the alt tags of these pictures. These texts for alt tags are your “baits” for the spiders and crawlers to consider your photo gallery as the one that makes your site content-rich.

Visit Jess Guim’s Big Apple City, a collection of 10,000 plus pictures of New York City.