How To Create A Money Making Website

A niche is basically what your website will be about. It is important to factor many things into picking the proper topic:

-Do you want to write about this topic? Does it interest you?
-Is this a profitable topic?
-Are people looking for information on this topic?
-Is this a popular topic?

If your answer to all of these is yes, then you have found a niche. A good tool to find a nice niche is SEOBook's Wordtracker.

After you have discovered a good niche, continue on to the next step.

A domain name is one of the most important parts of your website. It should encompass what your site is about in a few words and possible include some keywords. There are two things you can focus on when picking a domain name:

1. Building A Brand: Do you want readers to remember your name? Then pick something catchy. Something clever. Something easily remembered. This is better suited towards blogs.

2. Optimizing For Search Engines: Add keywords to your domain name to rank higher on Google, Yahoo, and more.

Identify your goals and pick a domain name accordingly. A good place to register domain names is GoDaddy

After you have a domain and a topic, you need to write some content for your website. First, determine if you want to write consistently for your website (blogging) or just make a static page (website).

For a website: write ten or fifteen articles relating to the topic and put them on the website. You can write them yourself or buy them.

For a blog: write a few posts. Introduce your blog and make at least six good posts before starting promotion. Try to write consistently - whether it be once per day or week. By far the best blogging software is Wordpress, but Blogger is a worthy alternative.

After you've got a solid website, you need to add some revenue streams to it. There are quite a few choices for making money online - here's a quick runthrough of the best choices:


Sponsored Reviews is the best pay-per-post blogging service there is. There are always plenty of advertisers and the payouts are quick and by PayPal.



Adbrite is an excellent ad network used by huge websites like Alexa. It offers CPA, CPC, and CPM ads - a huge variety.


Chitika has many ad formats to put on your website (shopping modules, for example). These offer both CPC and CPM payment.

BidVertiser
Bidvertiser offers you the opportunity to sell pay-per-click ads on your site. They have a low ten dollar payout through PayPal.

These are just a few of the excellent programs available for blog monetization. Check back later for more.

Without readers, your website will fail. This is a fact. Luckily, there are quite a few ways to get site readers:

1. Search engines. To get traffic from Google, Yahoo, and the like, you need to rank high in their results. This involves writing good content that is optimized for search engines as well as receiving links from other sites onto your site.

2. Social media. This mainly applies to blogs. Write funny content, breaking news, technology releases, and stuff you think will be popular with internet power users. Submit it to Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, Reddit.com, and more.

3. Subscribers. This mainly applies to blogs. Add an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) subscription option to your blog.

Don't have the time to manage a website or blog? Check out this article on making money online without a website.