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Learning how to build a money making website has become a somewhat easier task in recent years. Many companies have emerged that offer website builders that make it easy for the beginner to build a website. However, due dilligence is required when determining which website building system you should use. Most website builders are just that, website builders, not business builders. Many of these systems will allow you to build an attractive looking site. But, they will do nothing as far as attracting traffic. Without traffic you don't have a business.
How do you decide on a company?
Always check the reputation of the company that is offering the site building software. You can do this by doing a google search, checking forums and the ripoffreport.com website to see if there are any complaints against the company.
Try to find a company that offers an all-tools-in-one business building package including:
1.) An action plan - A step by step guide that is geared for beginners.
2.) Content writing assistance - guides that will walk you through the steps of producing content
that will persuade your visitors to click on your links.
3.) A website builder - That is simple to use.
4.) A built in traffic generating system - Choosing a website builder with this feature will not only save hours of tedious work that you could spend on building your site, it will also start to generate traffic to your site very quickly.
How do you build a money making website?
It all starts with research. You must find a niche that has a starving crowd. A crowd that would be willing to spend money on specific types of information, products or services, Then throw yourself in front of that crowd.
How do you throw yourself in front of a starving crowd?
By researching and finding the specific keywords your starving crowd is typing into the search engines to find the types of information, products or services related to your niche.
Once you have a good list of keywords, you then write content around each keyword phrase you have found. You don't want to write salesy or hypy pitch-like pages - These usually turn people off.
Be sure to write content that will warm up "presell" the visitors. Writing preselling content correctly (there are books that can teach you how to do this) will help push all the psychological buttons in the visitors mind, leading to much higher conversion rates. The way you monetize your site will depend on your target market. For example, will you be doing affiliate marketing, selling digitally downloadable products or setting up an online store?
In any event, there are ways to make money from a website regardless of what business model it reflects. These programs include Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Infolinks, Chitika and Bidvertising.
The great thing about using the programs offered by these companies on your site is that they are super easy to implement and they produce passive residual income. Which means once you have your website up, it will produce income for you years into the future.