Build a Website That’s Profitable
Every day tons of people start a website in hopes of making extra income online. You need to be ready to put in a considerable amount of work, learn how to bring targeted traffic to your site and then turn that traffic into paying customers.
Should you Choose a Free Website?
Choosing a free website is the most common mistake made, rather than opting for a site they pay for and actually own. WordPress.com is one of the most common traps out there. WordPress is fine but don’t make the mistake of thinking that once you build it that you can actually monetize it. The rules are strict about what you can and cannot do on the WordPress.com site.
Blogspot at Blogger.com lets you build your site free, but you need to remember these types of sites are never really your own. What would you have if you labored away to build your site only to find Blogger.com shut down at a later date. All your work would have been gone.
A better option is to have your own site hosted at a web host. It costs a little bit a month, but it’s yours, you can monetize it however, you want, and you know it will be there as long as you want it to.
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Keywords and Traffic
Keywords are very important to targeting traffic to your website. You don’t just want traffic you want traffic that would actually be interested in what you offer. You can have the most fantastic products or services, but if no one can find you then your online business is going to be dead before it ever gets off the ground.
You need to analyze the people who would want what you have and what they are typing in to find what you have to offer. Choose around 20 keywords/keyword phrases. Those are what you’ll use to target traffic and also to get your website ranked by the search engines.
Build your Website
Great news! You don’t have to understand HTML or CSS to build your website. There are tons of site builder options available to you including software programs like Dreamweaver and Xsitepro. There are plenty of online options too, and many web hosts offer site builder software so take advantage of it and get your website up and running in no time at all.
You can build a profitable website and begin to earn revenue from it. Best of all it isn’t nearly as complicated as you might have thought, so why wait another day?
Building a Website for Beginners
So you’ve decided to make a presence on the internet for your business or profession – good for you! The fact is, the world revolves around the internet and it offers you a great way to stay connected with existing customers and build new customers.
Don’t worry, building your own website isn’t as difficult as it might seem. We know – it’s overwhelming to begin with, but once you understand the steps, and reap the rewards of launching your website you’ll be thrilled.
1. The first thing you are going to need to do is come up with a name for your website. If you have an existing business, you’ll probably want to use that name. If this is a new adventure, try to come up with a name for your website that reflects what you will be selling or offering in services. This helps to target traffic to your website.
2. Next, you will need to purchase a URL. Try to get the URL to match your website name. This isn’t always possible but it is very important so be creative and do your best.
Let’s look at an example. Let’s say your business name is Big Bad Dogs. So you go looking for the URL www.bigbaddogs.com but its not available.
Now it’s time to get creative. What about www.big-bad-dogs.com or www.bigbaddogs.net or... well you get the idea. It’s time to look at different spins on the URL to get
3. Great, you have your URL now you need to find a place to host your website. There is free hosting and commercial hosting. You may be tempted by the free, and there’s nothing wrong with that. However, make sure you understand what the limitations are. Also, when you are purchasing commercial hosting make sure that they have a record of being up at least 99.5% of the time. If you need functionality like a shopping cart or auto responder, make sure that the web host offers these services.
4. You now have to move on to creating your website. You might use a commercial web editor, or a free one. Almost the entire web hosting sites offers online website building using their templates. This is a great way to start, but you should realize that these online builders could be limiting, so just make sure you will be able to everything you need to do.
5. You are almost done. You have your URL, found a place to host, built your site, and now you need to launch it and give yourself a pat on the back for your hard work and creation. You can start to tweak and begin to learn more about keywords, and search engine optimization. You are on your way to enjoy the benefits of a website.
How to Build Your Own Website in 5 Easy Steps
So you have decided to make your way to the World Wide Web not as a surfer but as an entrepreneur – good for you! Done correctly, it won’t be long before you are able to generate income from your website. But first, you need to know how to build your own website, so let’s get busy!
We’ll start by assuming you already have your domain name.
Step #1 Hosting
Hosting involves where you website pages reside. In order for others to see the website you build on your computer, it must be hosted somewhere. There are many different web hosts. Some are free, others offer standard hosting, and still others offer dedicated or virtual hosting.
Many head towards the free hosting, which can have a number of drawbacks including space, bandwidth, and even your site’s ability to become ranked. Make sure you read the fine print and know what you are and are not getting.
Step #2 Decide What Your Website Will Look Like
Once you have your domain and your hosting, you need to decide what type of website you will build. Is it a site designed to provide information, news, sell products and/or services, etc? Remember content is key in the world of search engines so think about how you build a site that promotes your focus and provide rich content.
There are tons of web edit services that can offer you WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). It makes building your website like using a word processor.
Step #3 Publish Your Website
Great, you’ve built your site and now you need to publish it. Publishing it is simply a matter of uploading the pages you have created to your web host service. FTP is the common method to upload. Sometimes you have to download FTP software, while other times the web host has streamlined everything so there’s no need to download anything. These are things to consider when you are choosing your web host services.
Step #4 Promote Your Website
“If you build it they will come.” Nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to a website. You are going to have make sure your site is search engine optimized (SEO). You need to build content that focuses on relevant keywords so that your site gets ranked and placed well, which will bring targeted traffic to your site.
Step #5 Maintain Your Website
You can’t just put your website up and forget about it. You need to bring new content in on a regular basis, test to ensure your site is running properly on all browsers, and in general keep your website fresh.
That’s it in a nutshell – just 5 easy steps to building your own website and starting your online business.
How to Choose Keywords for Your Website
Keywords are critical to the success of your website. You should have between 20 and 40 keywords/keyword phrases to ensure you have chosen a broad enough topic to build a successful website on. When you pick the keywords that are most profitable, you can bring the right targeted traffic to your site.
Expanding your keyword list can be done using some of the many tools that are available, such as Google Keyword Tool. It is a great way to get some excellent keyword ideas. It will provide you with a list of potential keywords and keyword phrases. You can get a more accurate idea by using ‘Match Types,’ and by choosing the ‘Phrase’ option.
Expanding Your Keywords
For example, use the word cat and ‘cat food’ as the keyword phrase – you will get just over 1,300,000 searches so that would make it worth expanding further on. Then let us say you search cat food and you discover the number of searches is over 2,000,000 so you can see how this could be a better choice because more people are searching.
Find Related Keywords
It is really easy to do your keyword research focusing on terms that are commonly used by those who are already familiar with the topic. But you shouldn’t stop at this point. There are always tons of other words that should be considered. This is the reason why it is so important to research all the phrases by looking at synonyms and words that are related.
After you find the keywords that are right for you, and with tons of potential, you should add them to your keyword list, along with the number of times they have been searched. Your list should be pretty extensive by now.
Calculate the Keyword Potential
To calculate the keyword’s potential you need to figure out how many searches there have been using the Google Keyword tool in comparison to how much competition there is. For your first keyword/ keyword phrase; take the number in the search column and divide by the number in the competition column. This provides you with a rough idea of the potential that keyword can offer. Multiply this number by 1000 to make your results easier to analyze.
Choosing Your Keywords
Choose the keywords with the highest potential, and use those in your search engine optimization. Start to enjoy the benefits of targeted traffic to your website.