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How to Create a Website and Earn Money

Two Methods:Create A WebsiteStart Advertising and PromotionQuestions and Answers


Ready to grab some of that Internet cash for yourself? Globally, online ad spending is on track to
exceed $145 billion, which means there are a lot of people getting rich! If you'd like to capture
some of that for your own, we have some tips for you.

Method 1
Create A Website

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Define your goal. In order to attract any investors (in the form of advertisers) you must
have a place for them to sell their wares. Attracting advertisers must be your primary goal,
as that is what will make your financial aspirations a success.
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Know what advertisers or ad placement algorithms are looking for in an advertising


venue (i.e., your website): generally, it's potential buyers with disposable income
who visit your site in significant numbers, and would be interested in products that
are closely related to the content on your site.
What you want in a site, then, is to attractand keepa lot of visitors. The longer
they stay, the more likely it is that they will eventually leave your site by clicking not
on the back button, but on your advertiser's links.

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Find a market. To generate the most traffic, and thus the most revenue, be selective in your
target market. While every demographic has its strong points and weak points, studies have
shown that younger people are generally more optimistic and more adventurousand thus
likely to click on an advertisement more readily.
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Keep in mind that the goal is clicks, not sales: that's what generates your revenue.
Once the visitor has clicked out of your site, it's up to the merchant to make the sale.
You get paid, regardless of the outcome.
Search the web for trends and ideas for websites, and include the year in your search
so that you avoid wasting search results on what was hot in 2006. For example,
searching Google for "website ideas 2012" returned nearly a billion results. From
there, it's just a matter of combing through to find ideas that pique your interest.

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Secure a domain. In the halcyon days of the early 21st century, you could create a business
name, and find a domain to match. These days, it's virtually impossible. However, you can
be creative with hyphenated names. While "geeks.com" (and .net, .org, even .xxx) is taken,
trying something like "website-4-g33ks" instead.
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One good way to proceed is to secure a ".com" domain, find a host (many domain
registrars will also host sites), and build your own site. This has the advantage of
being the most flexible in terms of design and installation of custom code.
Alternately, you can sign up with a service such as Blogger, from Google, or
Wordpressboth of which will not only let you put your site name in front of their
service name (e.g., geeks.wordpress.com), they will give you that and a website for
free. The advantage, aside from that, is that Blogger and Wordpress give you a great
number of really well-designed templates to make your site look visually awesome.
The downside is that generally takes having a "pro" version (i.e., paid for) before
you can do any serious customizing.

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Build your site. Using the templates provided, or a site of your own design (or from a
designer), put together your website. What you do will be based almost entirely on the
market you are attempting to reach. Again, though, whether you are ultimately offering a
personal service, like "Cleavon's Auto Repair Site," or a total web-centric site like "Sara's
Mouth-Watering Recipes," the goal is to keep people on your site. That means content is
kingsame as it ever was.
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If you're offering a service, your site could have content specific to your specialty.
Cleavon, for example, might have some basic articles on changing oil, fixing a flat,
or a FAQ about all those little sounds a car might make. Sarah could feature, along
with recipes, information such as weight and measure conversion, the differences
between types of flours, and anecdotal tales of kitchen disasters and successes. In
both cases, going beyond the basic service provided gives visitors a reason to stick
aroundand click on ads!

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Keep it fresh. Don't post one or two articles and call it a day. Remember that this is your
income stream we're talking about developing, so think of it as your jobpart time or full

time, you have to devote some time to it every day if you want to see the paychecks come
rolling in.
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The more you write, the more interest your site will hold. The more interest your site
holds, the more people will follow it. and more importantly, the more relevant your
site will appear to the ad placement algorithms. More ads = more clicks = more
money. Never lose sight of that goal.

Method 2
Start Advertising and Promotion

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Sign up for Google AdSense. AdSense will place ads for goods and services that are
relevant to your site's visitors, based on the content of your site. You get paid every time an
ad appears on your site, or an ad is clicked on.
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You get paid a very small amount for each impression (view) or click. Therefore, the
more traffic you generate, the more clicks and impressions you will have, and the
more money you will receive.

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Promote your site. Every time you post, every time you make a change, every time you
change a period to an exclamation mark or correct "teh" to "the," let the world know via
Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and all the rest of the social media world. The key is
to spread the word.
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Have accounts on all of the above, and make sure you have prominent links to your
website on all of them.
Start an email campaign as well. Once a week, publish a "best of my site" HTML
emailfrequent enough that people enjoy the content, but not so much that it
becomes spammy.

Pay attention to your metrics. Find which ads work best, and do more ads and pages like
those.
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By continually refining your process, each visit will be a higher value for revenue
generation. Always remember: the longer they stay, the bigger your paycheck will
be. Good luck!

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Sign up as an affiliate. Companies use affiliate programs to boost their online sales, and
most of these affiliate programs are free to join. Every time a visitor buys an item through
the affiliate link on your website, you earn affiliate commission.

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