HomeHow to make money? This is the question that most of us want answer to. In today’s world, no matter how much you make, it just doesn’t seem enough. But thankfully, the same world offers us so many new opportunities to make money.
Everybody today knows what websites are. But unfortunately not many know that its also very profitable. I suppose the main reason being that people who know how profitable they are just don’t want any competition. So they keep us away from this wonderful opportunity by spreading wrong facts about websites being expensive, really hard to build and maintain.
This article, hopefully, will prove them all wrong and show you exactly how to build a website, how to maintain it and how to profit from it. This article will cover the basic steps. Look for my other articles that I’ll be posting soon for more details.
So here are the 5 basic steps:
1) Select a topic
2) Register a domain
3) Buy web space
4) Build and maintain pages
5) Monetize
Let me elaborate.
1) Select a topic
To begin, you need to think up a topic on which you are going to build a website (this step is also called keyword research). It can be anything. But make sure its something you know about because you’ll have to write on this topic to build your pages. Once you have a topic (that you know or that you know you can write about or you think you can have someone write it for you) selected, its time to move onto the next step. Select keywords that have enough demand yet not so much competition. For your keyword research use the following free tool: Free Keyword Tool
2) Register a domain
Your website needs a domain so that people can access it. Domain, simply put, is the name people must type in the address bar of their browser to view your site. Now there are hundreds of domain sellers, so select anyone, it doesn’t really matter. But of course, charges are different so you want to go for a cheap one.
3) Buy web space
Now this is the most essential part. Your site needs space to store its pages and files. That’s why you need to buy some web space. Again, there are hundreds out there who offer web spaces (also called web hoster), but in this case, it does matter who you buy from. Firstly, make sure they offer you enough space. 500MB+ should be good enough. But most web hosting companies allows only 1 domain. This means that only one website can use this space. So make sure that you select a host that offers 5+ domain hosting since you’ll be able to host more site on the same space and reap more profits. Next, make sure they offer good amount of bandwidth. Bandwidth is the amount of data send and received. Select a host that offers a good amount of bandwidth since then your sites will load quicker and support larger traffic (users).
4) Build and maintain pages
Once your site is all setup, you need to build your site. Most web hosting companies offer you with free tools to help you with it. Its just a lot of clicking to select the template of your choice, placing images and in the end of course typing in the content for you site. Make the content unique and attractive to make people keep coming back to your site. Also make it a habit to update it regularly (once a week is good enough unless concerned with daily changes).
5) Monetize
Final step is to monetize your site. Sign up for affiliate programs and link up to those affiliate programs (make sure they are related to your site’s topic). Sign up for Google AdSense to have ads appear on your site. You get earn a small amount whenever a visitor to your site clicks on any of the ads. You can also link to other people’s site to increase traffic. You can also sell ad space in your pages to companies willing to pay for having their ads appear on your site.
Well there you have it. 5 steps all laid out well. So go on and follow these steps today!
