How To Build A Website That Makes Money

January 12th, 2010 - 

As little as one decade ago an ecommerce site was the domain of techno wizs and coding geniuses. Today the Internet business world is not limited to the technically gifted and motivated. Anyone can build an ecommerce business due to the advent of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors, web building wizards, open source blog and web site platforms, as well as platform like Ebay, Amazon, etc.

A person can build a viable web business without ever understanding how to configure a Mysql database or coding in HTML or PHP. A strong computer background or time needed to learn, is all the skills needed to get started.

Static Pages & Content Management Systems

Static pages are like digital paper. They do not change. They end in .htm, and remain the same until the owner changes the content on them.

A content management system can be as simple as a www.blogger.com or Wordpress blog. Or, it can be a complex $10 000 platform that is powerful enough to run 100 000 pages of content. The objective is to create something for the search engines to send their robots to for ranking and traffic generating.

The content should be designed to create demand, solve problems, and offer solutions. The secondary purpose is to optimize the website increasing the traffic and profit.

What Are You Selling

The Internet does not require a tangible product for sale. There are dozens of things to sell which are not tangible including downloads, education, affiliate and advertising, pre-selling, or social/ entertainment. Creating a site where people can come and share their love for a hobby, venture, belief, or view, can provide a good opportunity for a savvy business owner.

It is possible to sell entertainment. It is possible to sell meeting people. Many Internet businesses have grown to unbelievable levels of success doing just this. Some examples are youtube.com, facebook.com, myspace.com and more.

The first step to building a website is not designing the site. It is deciding what is being sold. Why will people come to the website? What will attract them? What will make visitors stay at the site?

Understanding what is for sale will help the business owner pre-sell the product without continually telling people to buy something. In fact, the most profitable sites are those that do not try to sell anything.

Monetize the Website

The term monetize the website means to create a website that doesnt sell anything. Its sole purpose is to pre sell a product and make money by driving people to websites that do sell something. This is a popular method of income generation as it lets Internet businesses to create multiple streams of income and diversify without needing to invest money into products, merchant accounts, and warehousing or drop shipping.

Shopping Carts

Once the website owner decides what to sell, they need to determine what type of platform. Many new companies stick with paypal.com an ebay company. Other people do not try to do it their own. Instead they take their time and explore their options.

One way is to use prostores.com, ebay.com, or amazon.com to sell their products.

Stay Up To Date

Being behind the times is a quick way to go out of business. Ecommerce companies need to stay up to day. That e-book should be changed into a home study or an e-course. The download should become a video or audio file. The free blog a personalized website. The internet world is evolving. As fast as users become familiar with one form of Internet tool or feature, another is quickly increasing to take its place.

The key to success is remaining educated, reading everything you can, and staying up to date with the web and all the tools it has. What makes money? Something new.

How Google Makes Big Money And How You Can Too!

December 17th, 2009 - 

How Google Makes Big Money And How You Can Too!

We all know that Google makes a lot of money, but not everyone knows how they do it, so I have created a web site about Google Adsense and have produced this article with the purpose to help people to understand thier system more.

Google is a search engine, and that comes from common knowledge now a days. An extremely successfully search engine ,which received so much daily traffic that one often wonders how many servers it maintains, to handle it all! They have thousands of employees around the world and probably make billions in revenues. How do they do it? Well, the answer is, of course, from advertising. They advertise, and advertise heavily. The two systems they have created are Adwords and Adsense. I won’t go into too much detail, since anyone can find out more on this on their website, but in a couple of sentences.. essentially, Adwords is a system that advertisers use place their ads via it, while Adsense is the outcome of those ad placements i.e. those are actual ads themselves.

Google places the ads in 2 places search engines, both: it’s own or those which they own and affiliated, and on mine and your sites. – They have a huge network (the whole web) of websites and split their profits from those ads with the web owners therefore creating a win-win situation and encouraging more and more web owners to place their advertisements. It is the biggest ad community in the on earth to date (not betting my wife on this, but pretty sure), and, judging by their rapid growth, it will be even larger weeks or months from today. The pay per click rate varies somewhere from .01 pence to a lot more of around 70 US Dollars. This depends on the quality of the web content you have at your site and how much advertisers are willing to pay for their visitors, probably in conjunction with some other less important factors. Google does not inform Us how much they pay the web masters, although there have being predictions from the web masters that the figure is most likely to be somewhere around 50%.

The aim behind it is to make a site with as many visitors as we can and have as high rate of clicks as possible. Of course this, opportunity attracts many of people though who try their luck with Adsense, and the good news is that the vast majority of those fortune-hunters fail, for many different reasons,one of which being mainly because those types of do not plug in for long enough, make spammy and worthless throw-away type of sites and it all just is too much work for them. Good news for those who do make it, as it means those have fewer people to compete against.

So, what needs to be done by an individual in order to make money with Adsense? Well, a start up capital to outsource, some SEO knowledge as well as somedetermination will be welcome, but crucial factors are determination and good quality Google is not stupid and in the future only unique, quality content ,which is of true value to the visitor will attract the search engines. This means that you can start creating a site and add original content two times a day or more, and that will, sooner or later, pay off and you will start ranking in the SE’s. Choose a niched topic, create more long tail keyword-aimed headlines, write the article, and you will be heading towards a very bright future, and , at that point, will probably be better off than about 98% of them that try.

Designing a niched website is easier to rank for, because you can optimise your linking strategy for this subject, therefore is going to get higher PR reputation with less effort. Search engines are going to start recognising you as an expert in this field, hence you will gain more traffic. This is in contradiction to if you make a wide area website, where you will need to try harder to get the same level of PR, , since you have more subjects and likely more web pages, as well as having to create more web links, as well as more permutations of these web links to more pages all this is just not as easy. To contradict to that though, once you are ranking, you will likely receive more visitors. It all really depends on how hard you are going to work on it, and the chances are not too hard (you do not want to reach success and then drop dead). Or depends on your ability to outsource (get them people from around the planet working on your site, and ghost-writers working on your content for you).

One of the other to consider is letting your web site readers to ad content themselves for you! Be it with the possibility to be approved by either you or your web master or to make a free post without web masters check this strategy, if applied right, is the best in terms of the work load off your chest. This is going to take a lot of work from you, as your visitors will be doing it, while you are on a nice, sunny beach in Caribbean island might just work! In my personal view, that would be a true success. (E.g. for many that have already taken off no web masters involvement required, apart from little off-page optimisation work and monitoring to keep the spot in the SE’s, and that can be outsourced. Content-adding is very natural for them). Of course, enabling comments is doing just that, but those are, likely, only couple of lines, and definitely not as affective as having full paragraphs.

Do you know that , according to recent statistics (end of 2006), something like seventy percent of the worlds wealth is in the hands of two percent of the worlds population? Well, the net is one of the Greatest chances in our history to be in this two percent. Oh, by the way, almost forgot the reason why I wrote this article. Below is a link to my site on the subject of how to make money with Google Adsense. I am adding articles to it regularly, writing about everything I know and learn about Google Adsense and how to make a lot of money from it, in the shortest possible time. Please you are v. welcome to visit it at http://www.AdsenseABC.com

I wholeheartedly wish you, my dear reader, all the best, and thanks for reading.

How Alan’s Website Could Easily Make More Money

November 24th, 2009 - 

My Australian friend, Alan, recently got in touch for advice on how to make more money from his recently set up website. Alan is into natural health treatments, so his simplehealthmaintenance.com website is one that offers natural solutions to health problems.

Alan asked for my advice as to how to monetize this new site, knowing that I have had success with Google Adsense.

First off, Alan needs to consider whether sales are his primary objective. If so, the addition of Adsense to the site, whilst bringing in extra income, might reduce potential sales.

Adding Adsense to his site would be a quick & easy way to make money. I suggested a horizontal Adsense link, just below the main navigation bar which runs across his index or home page. This would look natural and looks like part of the website navigation.

Also, the addition of a Google skyscraper unit on the right of his page would add value to the site, and also increase his income, but without detracting from his primary objective of sales.

Now, Alan is an expert on health, but not so good at search engine optimization. His heading for the page of Simple health treatments by non-invasive electronic acupuncture may explain what the page is about, but it isn’t going to get him hordes of traffic from the search engines – no-one is looking for either simple health treatments or non-invasive electronic acupuncture! Zoom along to Overture and check out their keyword selector tool in the resource centre if you want to see just what it is that people are searching for.

I suggested to Alan that he look at which words which people were searching for. Although he is happy to buy traffic for the site, using the pay per click engines (e.g. Adwords & Overture). This makes it easy to get a top search engine ranking for particular words or phrases (known as keywords) but can prove an expensive way of getting traffic.

Improving his natural search engine rankings, so that people found his site when typing in the keywords, would reduce Alan’s costs and increase his profit margins considerably.

This is relatively easy to do, and in fact I ran this for Alan myself using Wordtracker. This is a handy piece of software which allows you to look at the supply and demand of particular keywords and spot gaps in the market, also known as niches.

In this case, just one of the keywords which came up as in high demand but low supply was pain management with acupuncture. Alan would do well to either use these keywords as part of his homepage or to create a new page with this title and heading, together with suitable webcopy.

By putting these keywords at the beginning and end of a new page of copy, very soon this will start to get ranked well by the search engines and receive visitors who arrive for free!

One other easy suggestion for Alan to implement, since he is also a writer, is to write a couple of articles on the subject of natural healing and acupuncture and to submit them to a few of the Article Directories, such as Ezine Articles and iSnare. This is a effective and natural way to get traffic to your site with minimum effort.

Watch out for your profit margins Alan – they’ll be going way up – just as you implement these few simple changes!

For our free course on making money with your own home based internet business,
visit How to set up your own online business.

This article was submitted by Jen Carter, the creator of the How to Earn a Million Dollars website.

Every-one wants to start their own home business. But what

November 18th, 2009 - 

Every-one wants to start their own home business. But what if I told you 99% of websites claiming to show you how to make money from home are scams!!!

If you are planning to start your own home business you have to realize that making money from home is not as easy as most websites say it is. There are skills and discipline that needs to be acquired to be successful. Now I bet you have been looking at sites that state you can start making money within 15 minutes or start earning thousands of dollars a day all on auto pilot.

Well it can actually can be achieved but only if you know what your doing. Nine times out of ten most people havent got a clue about making money online or how its done. Believe me most websites are just after your money and will keep everything that really works all to them selfs, this way they can keep telling you you need this and then you need that and basically, they just keep sucking money out of you.

Well if its aright with you I would like to give you an inside look of some of the skills that you will need to run a successful home business.

Skill 1- Research
Now if you have happen to buy some sort of e-book that tells you find something your passionate about or enjoy doing Big mistake more than likely there will be millions of other people selling that product or service.

As I said you will need skills to find hot markets that have very little competition. So you will need to learn how to research and find those hot little markets in the form of keywords.

Skill 2- Link building

Then comes getting traffic visitors to your website another very important skill you must have. Without traffic you will fail terribly. There are quiet a few ways to get traffic to your site but I think the best traffic is from the search engines. But you will definitely need link building skills to get your site in the top ten rankings.

Skill 3- copy writing

But even if you get heaps of traffic its useless unless you can convert customers into buyers. Now you need to master how to write a sales copy or pre-sell a product or service. This skill is very important and without this all your hard work will be in vain. Personally it took me 8 months before I made a single sale. I knew nothing about making money online, so like I said it is not that easy as most websites make out. So next time your on a Make big money online website thats telling you You can quit your job tomorrow, take a closer look and see if they mention anything about teaching you real long term skills. Because honestly without them you are going to fail period.

Ok I hope this information helps you out a bit there are lots of things to learn when it comes to making money online these are just a few skills you will need and there are plenty more. To explain them here would take me days but look to find out more just use your search engine and type in these keywords
1. How to research hot markets.
2.Link building
3.Copy writing

Bye for now and good luck!!