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Let me ask you a personal, have you made any money online yet? If you have, you've probably made enough to order a pizza, right? Here are some steps you need to take so that with your next pay check, you can order a new house.
You need to buy a domain. A domain is the address of your website, like Google.com. Buy a domain that has to do with your subject or business you are creating. I recommend getting one that has a .com and nothing else like .net or .org. Domains usually cost around $8 every year if you register it with GoDaddy. Buy Hosting for you new site The next thing you need is a host. This is someone who will store your site on a server so that anyone can access it. Hosting usually costs $8 a month. The hosts I recommend are Blue host, Host Monster, and Network Solutions. Once you get a host, you will need to either transfer your domain to them or point your domain to them. Get more info on that from your hosting company. This is not as scary as it may sound. If you know anything about HTML, then you can go ahead and build your own site. The easier thing to do though is to just browse online and get a free template that has all the designs premade for you. You can also use Wordpress which makes everything a lot easier. Just keep in mind that WP is more for people who plan on blogging or writing articles. |
Marketing and Earning
The first six steps are about getting set up. Unfortunately, very few people actually get past the first six steps. It’s extremely easy to get distracted with adding advertisements and reading about cool tools that will “make money” for you on “autopilot”.
Do yourself a favor: ignore everything except accomplishing the first six steps until you get them done. Don’t go out of order. Just concentrate and accomplish your goals. Trust me, you’ll save months — if not years.
Once you get the first six steps accomplished (and not before), start with the rest. The next four are about increasing traffic through your website.
Write articles for
article directories.
Article directories
are a fantastic,
cheap and easy way
to build links and
awareness. Websites
like:
EzineArticles ,goarticles,articlealley,article-hut
articlesbase
let you publish an
article with a link
back to your
website. Just talk
about your niche and
tell people that
there’s more where
the article came
from — you’ll build
traffic.
Trade links with other webmasters. This works best if you have other websites to bargain with (for example, I’ll link to your site from my B site if you’ll link to my A site). This let’s you build relevant one-way links to your website, which are important to most search engines. A few months of this and you’ll get significant search-engine traffic.
Submit articles to blog carnivals. One of the coolest and most important websites for a webmaster is BlogCarnival.com. It lets you add your best articles to a “carnival”. A carnival is basically where some webmaster volunteers to link to all the articles that were submitted about a specific topic, like financial planning, knitting or NASCAR. You get free links, and curious people will click on your articles to read. Double win.
Write guest posts. This is one of the most important strategies for building traffic. Go to the most popular websites/blogs in your niche and offer to write for them. They’ll give you the credit, which can give you relevant links and hundreds (if not thousands) of visitors. This is the most important method I’ve used to generate traffic.
