6 Steps To Profitable Websites
March 27th, 2008In 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.
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.
The first step is to carry out Keyword Research. It is at this stage you will need to think about the niches and the sections that you will need to have. The niche you choose can be on any subject that you want, and as you will soon discover there are many niches which also have very profitable sub niches which you may wish to explore. Although Cars as your niche website would be good one about SUV’s as a sub niche or even one on carburretors would be much more beneficial. The most important thing to remember about keyword research is that you need to find a good mix of keywords. Look for those which have very little competition against them and look for those that will provide you with a challenge when it comes to promoting your site.
The next step when it comes to creating and building a profitable website is planning. A lot of people forget about this stage and completely miss it out, you shouldn’t. So you now need to get a piece of paper from your folder and jot down what the different areas of your site are going to be. It is during this time you need to decide just how you want your site to look and whether you want to have sub directories within it or just have separate sections within the site. Just by jotting down a few things and keeping a note of these will help you in the future as you will be able to see immediately what site models you have used previously work well and which ones haven’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 lives or dies on whether it receives traffic. Traffic can come from many sources. If you have done your website promotion properly then you’ll soon start receiving traffic from search engines. This organic search traffic is free and it should be what you are striving for.
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.
By incorporating the 6 steps in to your article building routine you will soon start to see the benefits. You’ll have the confidence to tackle bigger projects secure in the knowledge that sucess is just around the corner.