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The cool website idea of the day is to make a link stock exchange.  This website would allow webmasters who run a successful website to sell links on their website to the highest bidder, or to anyone they choose.  The website would also allow those of you looking to improve your search engine rankings to find affordable sites to get a link.  I know that similar sites exist, but sometimes success depends on careful execution.  Feel free to discuss this idea in comments, since the possibilities are endless.

If you are interested in having ELW design this website for you, we would be glad to help out.  Contact ELW for a free consultation about this website idea or an other ideas you might have!

Today I read an article about how bad cheating is in computer science courses.  While I am glad that the problem was not limited to the school where I was a TA, it doesn’t make it any easier to accept.  The fact is that many students in college these days cheat as a habit.  This habit only grows when they find out how easy it is to get away with it.  I don’t mean they don’t get caught, since it is so easy to detect cheating.  I mean that cheaters get caught, and the punishment is meaningless.  Students cheat, get caught, and maybe lose some points on an assignment.

The real problem is that most cheaters will graduate!  Do you ever wonder why your computer doesn’t work?  It might be because a cheater designed some little part of it.  Part of my brain says that karma will do its work, and everything will get straightened out.  We all know this isn’t the case.  Cheaters graduate, get jobs, do “work”, and cause damage.

The cool website idea of the day is to get some cheaters justice.  Anybody who has dealt with a cheater in a card game will probably agree that cheating doesn’t stop when you get caught.  Cheating stops when cheating stops working.  Cheaters at college are doing it to get a good job.  The cool website idea is to put up a website to unmask cheaters.  I know about FERPA, and how it is probably a federal crime to release academic information of this sort.  There must be a solution that is legal!

This cool website idea would be a place where employers would look to see if the applicant had a history of cheating in his/her college coursework.  Get the consent! I think a non-cheater would love to have a list of certifications from his instructors saying that they hadn’t cheated.  This system would probably get abused too.  ELW might need some help on this ideas from you on this one.  This problem could be too big to solve with a simple website without the help of some extra creative input.

The free website idea for today is to create a site that allows users to search the internet for anyone out there stealing their hard work and present it as their own.  This can really be a problem since these content thieves often generate enough spam links to the stolen content that it actually outranks your originals.  What makes this site better than using a search engine is that everything could be automated!  You wouldn’t need to do the same search over and over, nor would you need to manually check for unique phrases.  It could all be handled for you automatically with a paid subscription.

Contact ELWsoftware.com if you are interested in making this website idea a reality.

Another free website idea?  ELW must be crazy to give this stuff away!  The fact is that ideas are rarely worth much of anything at all unless you are ready to build them into something real.  ELW is glad to help you build any website idea posted on this blog, and you will never pay for the idea or for any kind of finders fee.

The free website idea of the day is to use crowdsourcing to get SEO for websites!

Crowdsourcing means that you ask for help, and the crowd volunteers their efforts.   This website would allow users to post their site to be evaluated by any SEO out there to give their advice.  You know, that “advice” that they usually charge money for.  Why would a SEO give away free advice?  Most of their SEO advice isn’t worth much anyway, just like a free website idea.  The secret is in how the advice is put into practice.  I think SEO providers would gladly give free ideas if it meant that they would be first in line to get paid to do the work!

If you have read some of the previous ideas for websites from ELW, you know that we will help you manage the site even if you have zero experience.  I don’t anticipate that today’s idea is possible without our help.  It doesn’t matter, ELW will design, host, and help you manage any free website idea posted on this blog.  You never need to pay a finders fee, or buy the idea from us.  The ideas are turn-key propositions for entrepreneurs ready to take a chance.

The free website idea for today is what I am calling Reverse SEO.  Reverse SEO does not mean that you are trying to be harder to find in search engines, although that might be a good idea too.  Reverse SEO according to ELW refers to finding out what search phrases will bring up your site.  Regular SEO tries to improve your search engine visibility for phrases you choose.  Reverse SEO will tell you keywords and phrases where your page already ranks.  There might be keywords you can use in your signage and slogans that already bring up your page in Google.  This site would allow you to discover hidden opportunities!

It can be difficult to get your site to the first page of Google search results.  Is it possible that your site already shows up for keywords you don’t know about?

The best website ideas fill a need.  These days the world of websites really needs to know what is really going on in the world of search engine optimization or SEO.  Catching a cheater is easy, but getting them to stop cheating is difficult.  The only way to get someone to stop cheating is to make sure the other players know that they cheat.  Why don’t schools teach students how to detect cheaters and scams.  The world of SEO is filled with cheaters and scams.

How can a piece of SEO software guarantee you the top spot on Google?

After a while, isn’t it inevitable that two customers buying the software product will want to rank #1 for the same keyword?  Wouldn’t it be nice if an independent reviewer actually explained what a SEO program actually accomplished?  The best way to inform everyone who the SEO cheats are would be a website!  ELW will make this website idea a reality for the very first customer willing to try.

Since ELW is headquartered in Riverside, California we generally focus our attention on the local environment we see around us.  This is often the source for the best website ideas.  Let me throw a few observations out there:

1. Lawyers generally don’t have websites, and when they do they usually aren’t very good.  Some are terrible.
2. Lawyers charge serious money to get you out of serious problems.
3. Lawyers in your local area benefit from finding local clients.
4. Lawyers are experts on a subject where it is illegal for regular people to give advice.

So, the obvious approach to a lawyer website is for the lawyer to give advice on the site that will bring in new clients.  An even better idea is to create a site where lawyers provide the advice, and you make a profit! Making a decent website for dealing with legal advice would require a person who is motivated and honest, but the benefits could be extraordinary.  Contact ELW if you are interested in our help developing a website for lawyers.

I have always thought passwords were dumb.  Even 15 years ago when I was a freshman in college the default email password was your social security number.  Back then professors also used your social security number to “anonymize” exam results so they could all be posted outside their office.  The obvious idea for the enterprising hacker was to use what you know!  You had two publicly available lists that gave you everything you needed to know: The attendance sheet, and an exam result sheet.  It was only a short amount of time to figure out everyone’s password.  Even less if you had a pretty good idea who would get what grades in the class.  People who dropped the class got zeroes, half the students verbally complained about their grade, and others you could just tell were dumb.

Wouldn’t it be nice if times had changed, and passwords were actually secure?  Too bad!  Recently some hacker obtained millions of passwords from a website database and posted them online.  Would it surprise you to find that over 1% use some form of counting numbers as their password? (12345, 123456789, etc.) Most of the rest uses simple names, probably someone they know and like.

I think it is time that somebody found a solution to this password problem, and made a website for it.  The website could automatically generate a completely secure password for any website you visit.  It could even give the password to you when you forget.  Computer science has given the world some awesome tools, but we are still stuck with remembering passwords for every single website we choose to visit.  This has got to change!

If you are interested in making this excellent website idea a reality, contact ELW and we will even give you a discount on the development of this site.  That is how badly we want to see the password manager and generator website created.  A few hundred dollars could make you a really great opportunity.

I have ideas for websites every day, and I’m sure anyone reading this blog does too.  99% of them don’t end up becoming anything.  It’s not because they aren’t good, and it certainly isn’t because it’s too expensive!  Usually it is because I don’t have the sustained enthusiasm to focus on the idea for the duration of what it takes to make the site work.  I’m not ashamed of the fact that some of my ideas aren’t suited to me.  That doesn’t make me upset!  I know what it takes to make a web site and make it work.  If I choose not to give an idea my full attention, I don’t blame anyone else if they want to take my web site idea and run with it.

Today’s web site idea is the following:

Every day a new web site idea is posted free for anyone to use as they wish! Call it freewebsiteidea.com if you want!  I won’t feel jealous if you make it bigger than Ebay.  You buy the domain, pay for the hosting, worry about the search engine rankings, and leave me out of it!  I’ll have a new web site idea tomorrow.