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The 6 Steps To A Profitable Website |
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Mark Thompson |
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The 6 Steps To a Profitable Website
Mark Thompson
In order to build a profitable website for yourself you need to have a good plan in place as well as you carrying out lots of preparation first. A lot of people will come up with an idea for a website, they then buy a domain name and start to build the site without actually thinking through what is required. Like these people I use to have hundreds of websites and would never concentrate on one but would instead be moving from one to the next constantly. However now I concentrate on just 20 sites or less and because of this I have seen a dramatic increase in my income from them.
There are 6 steps you should take to ensure that you create websites that are profitable. Stick to this formula and you'll rapidly increase you income. Before you even think about building a site get yourself a ring binder and some paper you should create a section for each site you want to create. You could do this on a PC but trust me on this you'll use it much more if it's in a folder next to you PC.
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.
The second step and certainly one of the most important is planning. A lot of people will actually miss this step out completely but you must not. So take a piece of paper from your folder and start to write down what you want your site to contain. You need to work out just how your site will look and whether you want to have sub directories or just sections within it. Just by making a few notes and keeping these will help you at a later stage as you will be able to refer back to them and see which site models you have used before are the most effective and which ones are not.
The building stage comes next. In the planning stage you should have decided what tool you are going to use to build your site. There are many available some are free others cost hundreds of dollars. If you are just starting out I would suggest using Wordpress as it's free and can be easily installed from many websites Cpanel.
One of the biggest mistakes made by many people is when it comes to promoting their site after they have built it. What they will often do is just promote their site enough so that it gets indexed into various different search engines before they become bored with it and move on to the next project. STOP! Any promotion you do for any of your sites should be an ongoing task. The best thing you can do is spend a hour each day for at least the next two weeks on promoting your site.
All sites can only survive if they are receiving sufficient amounts of traffic to it. As you will soon learn this traffic can come from anywhere. However you have promoted your website properly then you will find that you start to receive the traffic you need from the various different search engines. It is important to note that organic search traffic is completely free and is what you are aiming to get to your site through promoting it.
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.
If you would like to read more about building profitable websites pop over to http://profitablewebsiteguides.com/) Profitable Website Guides. Mark Thompson is a full tine internet entrepeneur and runs http://income-academy.com/ The Income Academy
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