Will starting a website on godaddy.com still allow me to make a profit from potential advertisers?

[Michael]

I'm starting a website and still deciding who i should have make it. if i choose a site like godaddy.com and i get people interested in advertising on my site will i make any money from it?
How would I go about designing the site myself?

[HelpMeICantSwim]

If you have advertisers, yes you will make money from it....

Getting people to want to advertise on your site is a totally different question (and a very tough challenge)

[Jake]

If you are paying for hosting, the service you use has no effect on your ability to sell ad space. Realistically getting traffic should be your first and foremost goal, if the site starts getting popular with more than 100 real visitors a week you might start thinking about advertising. The most popular passive ad system for small sites is Google's Adsense, to make the min $100 payout you need perhaps 10,000 visitors, the numbers vary considerably depending on the commercial slant of your site.

You can make money on some free hosts as well, Google setup their Blogger.com mainly to get more sites that might choose to run Adsense ads, there are over 1.2 Billion pages hosted there, unlike most 'free' hosts there are no paid upgrades, you can add a custom domain name, but you can get it anywhere (I would not register a name through Google)

The free host Wordpress.com allow you to get acquainted with the industry standard Blog platform, if you get something going (traffic wise) you can move to a paid host with an easy full version wordpress installer. They charge for putting ads on a Wordpress.com site.

[Casey Y]

What does a host have anything to do with profit? You will pay godaddy a set fee and then a maintenance fee (I assume you want to have them build your website, not just host it, which is what they are known for).

Profit will come from ad sales which are driven by the number of unique visitors your site receives. You get visits by having desirable content, which is up to you and not godaddy.