When it comes to building a profitable website you need to plan and prepare first. Far too many people will have an idea for a particular type of website and then straight away buy the domain name and then start to build it without actually thinking through what it is they need to do. Just like these people I would build hundreds of websites and then spend time constantly moving from one to the next without any real plans in place. However today I have learn that it is much better to concentrate on have no more than 20 sites and because of this I have seen my income dramatically increase.
But to ensure that you can create and build websites which are going to be profitable for you there are 6 steps you will need to make. Certainly by sticking to the formula in this article you should soon see a rapid increase in the income these sites can earn for you. However before you actually start building any sites it is important that you get a folder along with some paper into which you will have sections for every site that you want to build. Although you can actually set this up on your PC believe me it is much easier for you as the folder is at hand at all times right beside you as you work.
Step one is the Keyword Research stage. Here you need to think all about the niche and what logical sections you will have. A niche can just about any topic you can think of, you’ll also find than many niches will have profitable sub niches which you should also explore. For example Cars would be a good niche but SUV’s would be a sub niche and carburretors would be another tight sub niche. The main thing with keyword research is to find a good mixture of keywords some of which have very little competition and others that will challenge your promotional skills.
Planning is the second stage, many people completely miss this stage out don’t! Grab a piece of paper from your file and sketch out the different areas of your site. Work out how you want it to look and if you want to add subdirectories or have each section on the same site. By sketching things out and keeping a record you can go back later and see which site models work well for you and which don’t.
In the next step you will want to actually start to build your site. Remember we have just finished the planning stage and it was during this time that you made a decision as to what tool you would be using to build your site with. As you know there are building of site building tools now available, some you can get for nothing and others that are going to cost you a few hundred dollars. However for those of you that are just starting out I would suggest that you use WordPress. This site building tool is not only free but can be easily installed from many of the other websites Cpanel.
The biggest thing that any website owner will fall down on when it comes to building a site is promoting it. Often they will only do enough in order for it to be indexed and then as soon as it has become bored and decide to move on and build the next one. STOP! If you really want to see your sites start to earn an income for you then you must continue to promote them. Therefore you should try to spend an hour each day for the next two weeks on promoting your site.
A site will only survive if it receives traffic. The traffic it receives will come from a number of different sources. But in order for the traffic to know about the site you need to promote it properly. The more properly a site is promoted the more chances are that you will start to receive traffic from search engines. This kind of organic search traffic is completely free and is what any good website owner should be striving to achieve.
Monetization is the objective for most webmasters if they want to earn an income from their sites. The trouble is most of them monetizing the sites too early. I’ll often leave it 3 months before I monetize a site. There is no point in adding Adsense to your site immediately as it may affect the ranking of your site and without traffic it’s not going to earn you money.
If you start to incorporate the these 6 basic steps into your site building routine you soon start to see the benefit. Along with the increased profits you find the confidence to take on bigger and more profitable projects.
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This post was written by Mark Thompson on April 4, 2008
