There are several ways of making money online but the best way to make good money is through a website.
I will explain the four steps involved in doing this.
#1 - Get A Website
#2 - Put Good Contents On It
#3 - Drive Traffic To Your Website
#4 - Monetize Your Website
#1 - Getting a Website
Let me start by explaining the concept of a website and the internet. I believe you use to go to your local market places. What do you see there?
Shops, goods, sellers, buyers, and other services.
This concept explains the internet and website perfectly. When you go to a market place you see different shops with different names, different goods and services and above all, different sellers and buyers.
The internet is a market place that links many people sellers & buyers with different aims together.
Websites are shops with different "names."
Sellers are website owners.
Buyers are visitors who visit a website with the motive of buying a particular item or goods and to get information.
The different names are names and titles that websites bear.
Other services are services rendered on the internet apart from buying and selling.
I believe you now understand the concept of website and internet. Let us continue with "getting a website." You can pay an expert to design a website for you or you can start with a blog.
For a starter who wants to make money before spending, I will suggest you start with a blog. The two blogging platforms I will suggest are Blogger and Word press. These are free. I started with blogger. You too can start with that because it is easier to use.
The same thing with a domain name. If you are David and you have chosen your niche as story telling. then your domain name must bear what you do, as this will help people to know what your blog or website is all about and find you easily on search engine. You may choose your domain name as: David story.com, Dave tells the story.com, story planet.com etc...
You have chosen your domain name now, let us continue to the last step in this stage. "Choosing your blog or website description." It is important you choose the right keywords as this will help your blog or website to be found in search engines. I will explain this further in the next stage.
Remember the bookshop we have spoken about earlier. The name of the bookshop is Dave books and stationery store. Then the description will be: dealers in all kinds of books. textbooks, religious books, Writing materials, story books, etc... This is similar to blog or website description. It describes further what your blog or website Is all about.
#2 - Putting Content on Your Blog
After you are done with the setting up of your blog or website, you need to stock it regularly with lots of good and fresh content.
What do I mean by good and fresh content?
This takes us back to the shop in the market place, that is the bookshop. If you go to the market to buy books, and you see a bookstore that is well stocked and the one that is not well stocked, you would surely want to patronize the well stocked bookstore, because it looks attractive and you believe you will get what you want there. The same with a blog or website with lots of good contents. If you are a storyteller who chooses to write stories on your blog or website for your visitors to read, begin by writing up to 20 different stories and post them on your blog or website for your visitors to read.
#3 - Diving Traffic to Your Blog or Website
Once you have written your articles and have published them to your blog, it is time you get people visit your blog or website to read them. It is these people visiting your site that are called traffic.
You can encourage your readers to leave a comment on each article you post. They can find the "Write a comment" at the bottom of each post. By this they would want to come back next time to read the reply you've given to their comments. If you have published a new article by the time of their revisit, they would want to read it and so it goes, By this, you are getting a number of loyal readers or traffic. And your blog or website becomes popular. Other ways are listed below.
Article Submission
Article submission is important in driving traffic to your blog or website. It also helps to make sales if you are into affiliate marketing. I will explain affiliate marketing when we get to "monetizing your website". You can submit up to ten articles on article directories. Go to Google and type article directories. you will get a lot of them there. Where you can submit your articles.
You will first be required to register. If you are starting with Ezine Articles, submit all your ten articles and place your blog or website in the resource box. Wait for two or three days to get your articles approved. When your articles have been approved, you have to wait for seven days before you submit your articles to other article directories.
If you want to get more article submission directories, simply go to Google and type "free article directories" into the search box. You will get lots of them.
Social Networking Sites
We have a lot of social networking sites today. But the most popular of them all are Face book and twitter. You can use these platforms to drive traffic to by creating a fan page for your blog or website. This fan page must bear the name of your website and you must use your site logo as the profile picture.
It is good to find a logo for your blog or website as the power of logo is very strong in giving a site a unique recognition. You can look at yahoo for example with the logo it has. Look at Face book too. These logos make them stand out among other competitors. After creating your Face book page, make sure you share every new article you publish on your social network site. After your blog or website have been designed, a "share it" button will be automatically added to it.
List Your Blog or Website on Networked Blogs
You can find this by typing "Networked blogs" into the Face book search box. Then follow the instructions on the page. When you are done listing your blog or website there, collect the follower gadget code and embed it into your blog or website. The function of this is that it will enable interested readers or visitors to be able to follow you on your blog. And this will increase your website's popularity.
Register Your Domain Name
We have discussed about domain name earlier. I encouraged you to start your website business by using free services like blogger and word press. So let us assume you are using blogger then your domain name will be David story.blogspot.com. But if you do not want it to bear David story.blogspot.com again, it is then you will have to register your domain name.
Website Submission
Submitting your website to search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and so on. This will enable your website to be found on search engines when people search for terms related to your blog. For your site to be easily found on search engines, you have to use the right keywords for your site. You can submit your site for free at free web submission.com
Ad Word
Ad word is like advertising your product on radio or television station. But note that this is not a free service. You can either use Google ad word or Face book ad.
#4 - Monetizing Your Website
There are different ways of monetizing your website, but I will explain only three for now.
1. Ad Sense: Ad Sense is a way of earning money online. You get paid each time someone clicks on the ads displayed on your site.
2. Direct Advertising: What I mean by direct advertising is that you encourage companies or organizations to advertise their products and services on your blog or website.
3. Affiliate Marketing: In simple words, affiliate marketing means selling somebody's product and getting commission. You can simply do this by registering on affiliate sites like amazon click bank and so on.
After you have registered as an affiliate, you will be given affiliate links or banners for the products you want to promote. You can place these banners on your site. When someone visits your site, and clicks on the banner, it takes them to the site of the product you are promoting. When this person buys the product, you get a commission. This is how to promote your affiliate banners.
For your affiliate links, you will be given only a website link and not a banner. You cannot just display a website link on your site as it will no t make any sense. Therefore, the best way to use your affiliate link is to embed it in each article or post you write on your website or blog. Let us assume you are promoting a software that helps watch free television on computer, then you will have to write a short article up to 300 words on that software. Then you embed your affiliate link which will take readers to the download page for the software. When a purchase is made, through your link, you get paid for the sale. Make sure the commission on the product is up to $30 or $40.
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