When you’re building a website specifically to support your article marketing efforts, you need to think about what you want the website to do. What’s the primary purpose? In several years of article marketing, I’ve learned there are basically five reasons to build a website:

So how do you decide which type of site to build? Some of it is personal preference. For example, I just LOVE blogs and so I tend to build a lot of those. But I also like to build Direct Sales sites to make quick income from a hot article niche I’ve just discovered.