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In order to build a profitable website for yourself you need to have a good plan in place as well as you carrying out lots of preparation first. A lot of people will come up with an idea for a website, they then buy a domain name and start to build the site without actually thinking through what is required. Like these people I use to have hundreds of websites and would never concentrate on one but would instead be moving from one to the next constantly. However now I concentrate on just 20 sites or less and because of this I have seen a dramatic increase in my income from them. 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. Planning is the second stage, many people completely miss this stage out don't! Grab a piece of paper from your file and sketch out the different areas of your site. Work out how you want it to look and if you want to add subdirectories or have each section on the same site. By sketching things out and keeping a record you can go back later and see which site models work well for you and which don't. 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. Promotion is the bit where many people fall down. They do enough to get the site indexed but then they get bored and build a new site. STOP! You must promote your site good promotion should be ongoing. Try to spend an hour a day for at least 2 weeks 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. The main objective for nearly every webmaster today is monetization especially if they are looking to earn an income from their sites. But the biggest problem that many of these people have is that they monetizing them far too early. Often I find it much better if I leave the sites I have built for about 3 months before I actually montize them. Certainly it is not to your advantage to add Adsense immediately to any sites you build as this could seriously affect your page ranking and so reduce the amount of traffic that is going to be directed towards it and help you to earn money. If you start to incorporate the these 6 basic steps into your site building routine you soon start to see the benefit. Along with the increased profits you find the confidence to take on bigger and more profitable projects.
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If you would like to find out more about creating profitable websites check out Profitable Website Guides. Mark Thompson is a full time internet entrepeneur and runs The Income Academy
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