We're going to be looking at the process of creating a web site and how to make money online with your site. We'll take you through the steps of choosing a domain name, web site hosting, designing your pages with web site templates, adding content and making money online with google adsense and affiliate programs.
STEP 1: CHOOSING A DOMAIN NAME/WEB SITE ADDRESS To begin the creation of your website you will need to come up with a domain name or website addresss. Try to get an address that has specific keywords for what your business or website is about. This will make it easier to remember and will also benefit with keywords searched for on search engines. There are a lot of additional domain extensions to choose from .com .co.uk .co.nz .net .biz .tv etc.. A new domain extension is recently available .ws (WorldSite or WebSite) Try this domain name extension as there may be more names available than the .com's. Top 5 Tips: * Make the address easy to remember. * Choose an original domain thats reflects what you are about. * Include keywords in the domain for what your site or business is about. * Decide what domain extension to use (.com .ws etc.) a local or international domain. * Buy multiple domains if required. Similar wording for the domain names.
STEP 2: SETTING UP YOUR WEB SITE HOSTING AND EMAIL ACCOUNTS Once you have your domain name, you can signup with a hosting account web server. There are many hosting account deals out there on the web. Search around for something suitable for your website and business. It can sometimes be best to get a hosting account that is within your country. There are even hosting deals called 'resellers accounts' where you can create hosting for unlimited domains plus divide and sell webspace! Top 5 Tips: * Search online for an appropriate hosting provider. * Choose hosting that is within your country. * Check details for MB allowance, email accounts, databases etc. * See if the hosting account has an easy to use control panel. * Decide if you want to run a 'hosting resellers account'.
STEP 3: THE DESIGNING OF YOUR WEBSITE BY YOURSELF WITH WEBSITE TEMPLATES OR USE A PROFESSIONAL DESIGNER! If you have the skills you can design your website yourself by learning HTML or use web design software. Otherwise hire a web site designer to create your site. If you design yourself, there is a range of software available that is freeware and shareware, although we recommend buying Macromedia Studio 8 as a professional web design package. You can take shortcuts in your design by using web site templates. Pre-designed sites that have navigation and colour schemes already created. These can save hours of time, lots of money and make your websites easier & enjoyable to design. 1000's of free and professional templates are available on the internet. Top 5 Tips: * Create the website yourself or hire a designer. * Choose suitable design software. * Surf the internet to get ideas and learn from other websites. * Use free or professional website templates. * Search for free scripts and tools.
STEP 4: ADD SITE CONTENT AND PROFIT WITH GOOGLE ADSENSE! Google adsense is a great way to earn money online and add content to your web site. Google makes it easy for website designers to display relevant Google ads on their site. Because the ads match your keywords and content, your visitors have will be interested in the links, plus you will profit from the links they click on. It's as simply as that. You can also make extra money by referring others to the program. The first time they make $100US, your account is credited with $100US. Additional to this you can be credited $1 for every download and install of the Firefox web browser. Top 5 Tips: * Use text ad units for best results. * Blend link colours to match your site. * Place the google ads amongst content. * Have links for referral signups. * Place ads on all your pages and websites.
STEP 5: MAKING MONEY WITH AFFILIATE PROGRAMS! Affiliate programs are a great way to make money online. You simply have links to products and services on your website. Once a visitor makes a purchase through your link your can receive some great commissions on sales or even simply by people clicking on your links. Top 5 Tips: * Signup to a selected few good programs. * Create your own affiliate program for your products. * Signup with Google Adsense to create profit fast & easy. * Create multiple streams of income on different sites. * Use your mailing lists to advertise your affiliate programs.
Stay tuned for the next part where we'll look at promotion of the website you've created..
As a blogger, I started creating websites that I found personally interesting to me. I found articles that were fun and interesting and posted them for people to read. After all.. people create blogs so they can share their feelings and aspirations. But when you create that blog you also feel that you are putting a large amount of time into the projects and wish to see if you are able to generate income from your work. This is where Google Adsense comes into play. I discovered Google Adsense mostly by accident and was intrigued by the concept of Contextual Advertising. I felt if Google could deliver the ads, all I had to do was get the traffic. I could sit back and collect the money. I applied adsense to my site and waited. Well...I waited a "long time" for little to nothing.
Not being one to give up easily, I used small and large ad formats and applied them to the top half of my website, to the right side and also to the bottom. I waited a period of time to see the results and "surprise, surprise". I did get an increase in clicks. The only problem was, the clicks were still small and didn't amount to much. By this time most people would have given up and would have just moved along to other advertisers. I seriously started to look at "Blogads" and "crispads" but I finally came back to Google. After a period of reflection, I decided that I was missing some critical pieces of information and decided the best route to take was to learn by example.
I looked long and hard at people who were successful at adsense. I looked at thier sites. I made mental notes of what they were doing and what kind of content they had. I read thier own stories of success and then compared what they did against each other. What I found intrigued me. I found out that successful people in the adsense program have relavent content and they use human behavior to thier advantage. Now relavent content is a given, but what I mean by "using human behavior" is a little bit more complex.
Evidently people arrive at your site and make up thier minds up in a flash. Instantly they choose to stay on your site or leave it. They look for something that catches their interests and if it does, they stay there to read your information or end up buying a product.
Internet users are "trained" to look in certain locations and ignore things that are outside of their narrow scope of vision. People can look to the sides for information, but the propensity for them to click your ads becomes significantly lower. By putting ads directly "in their face", you have a greater chance they will click it.
Now, I am not an adsense expert by any stretch of the imagination and still learn new things everyday. I am like "you", a person who wants to generate an income and hopefully have more incentive to keep going. But...I know what works for me and what doesn't.
Now, there were only several things that I did to increase my adsense click through and after experimentation, I am convinced these are the winning ticket.
These are things I did:
I use a white background instead of a color background.
I remove the border on adsense so it does not look like an ad and make sure it matches the background
I keep the Title and the Hyperlink "Blue".
I keep Adsense "above the fold", so they are the "FIRST" thing that people see when they arrive at the site.
I use these formats only.
The 338X280. This one is primarily used because it is large and it does not look like an ad.
The small Google "ad links", (180x90) or others similar, because they are not targeted tightly and give people options to see other things that relevant to THIER interest and I blend the ad to make it look like the rest of the titles.
I try to keep the ads "left" aligned.
I use the 160X600 vertical for people to see when they move vertically down the website page.
I try to place images near the google ads. Images draw the eyes near the ads.
I keep the site concise, clean and focused.
By using these tactics I was able to increase my adsense click through rate significantly depending on traffic level and people's interest.
Take my advice and give it try. I believe you will see a change and hopefully make adsense a more pleasurable experience
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