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The 6 Steps To a Profitable Website

By: Mark Thompson.

Building a profitable website is all about planning and preparation. Too many people get an idea for a website and immediately buy a domain name and build a site without first thinking it through. I used to be like this I had hundreds of websites and was constantly flitting from one to another without a plan. I now concentrate on less than 20 sites and my income has increased dramatically.

In order for you to make sure that the sites you end up creating for yourself are profitable there are a number of steps that you will need to follow. If you stick to the formula we provide in this article you will soon see just how the quickly the income from the sites you build increases. But before you actually start building your sites you need to get a ring binder and same paper. You then divide the binder up into sections for each site you are wishing to create. You may want to do this on your PC but you will find that you actually use what you have within the folder more when it is just beside your PC.

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 second step and certainly one of the most important is planning. A lot of people will actually miss this step out completely but you must not. So take a piece of paper from your folder and start to write down what you want your site to contain. You need to work out just how your site will look and whether you want to have sub directories or just sections within it. Just by making a few notes and keeping these will help you at a later stage as you will be able to refer back to them and see which site models you have used before are the most effective and which ones are not.

The building stage comes next. In the planning stage you should have decided what tool you are going to use to build your site. There are many available some are free others cost hundreds of dollars. If you are just starting out I would suggest using Wordpress as it's free and can be easily installed from many 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.

Once you can incorporate the 6 steps into your site building and learn what works well for you then you'll have a much better chance of making each and every site you build profitable.

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About the Author:
If you would like to find out more about building profitable websites why not check out Profitable Website Guides. Mark Thompson is a full tine internet marketer and runs The Income Academy
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