Patent ID: 7904799

Claim:
A method of generating a web site, comprising the steps of: identifying web content associated with a first source; identifying one or more first-type of web pages of the web content, which a user has authority to edit; identifying one or more second-type of web pages of the web content which the user does not have authority to edit; identifying web content associated with a second source; placing a first link on at least one of the first-type of web pages that links the first-type of web page to the web content associated with the second source; automatically building a customized web page or web pages of the first type for an owner of the one or more second-type of web pages based at least on industry specific information and definitional web site information input and selection of purchasable externally developed third-party software components by a builder of the one or more first type of web pages; validating the first link; sending, to the second source, a request to add a second link on a web page of the web content of the second source, the second link linking the web page of web content of the second source with the web content of the first source; and generating one or more referrals based on the first link between the first-type of web pages and the web content associated with the second source.