Build Profitable Website

OK, so far we have learn how to build your website for free. On another article, we have also learn how to make a wordpress blog. I have outlined several point regarding the advantages of using wordpress as you website core. While there are many other website builders and CMS you can use to build your website, I will probably put more focus on building your website using wordpress in the future. Mostly since it is free and it is very user-friendly, and at the same time it can be a powerful vehicle to get high rank on the search engine search result. I will probably touch a little about other website builders and CMS but most of the time I will focus on wordpress.

Now, after you have learn and (hopefully) practiced how to make a wordpress blog for your website, let’s move into a more advanced discussion, how to make a profitable website. Building a website is easy, especially using wordpress, you can build it under 10 minutes after you have some experiences and practices. However, building the website is only the first step on our journey on having a profitable website that will earn us some money from it. There are several other factors that we should prepare and have to make it happen.

Before you get me wrong for putting this article after the last two, I should say that the last articles purpose is just to give you a kind of warming up, and at the same time teaching any of you who never built a website before. Of course, I will not talking about make money online from website to anyone who never built a site before, right? But now, since you have learn how to do that, let’s step to the basic of making a profitable website.

To be able to make your website popular and at the same time making you money from it, you have to understand several factors as follows:

• Your website should provide what people looking for
• Your website should rank high on the search engine for its targeted keyword
• You should have an option or two to monetize it

I know several of you don’t know anything about those 3, don’t worry, I will explain them for you.

Your website should provide what people are looking for

There are millions of people around the world online everyday with their own purpose. Most of them are searching for specific answer to their problem. Some of them probably looking for an answer how to build a website while others are looking a way to cure their acne problem.

Now, that is your task as a website owner to provide those answers. Of course you don’t have to provide all information people needs, you will get a better result if you narrow your website topic, let’s say you provide information to people who are looking for a solution to cure their hair loss problem.

This website is focus on providing information to people who are looking for a way to build a website. At the same time, this website will also provide an answer to people who want to learn how to make profitable website, how to get more visitors to their website, how to earn money from their site, and so on.

Now, decide what topic you want to target from your website.

Your website should rank high on the search engine for its targeted keyword

So you have built your website talking about certain topic, let’s say it is “how to make money online from a blog”. You have several articles written and published on your website but there is no one visiting your website. What happen? What ingredients you are missing?

The answer is simple, your website cannot be found anywhere on search engine. When people type “how to make money online from a blog” on Google’s search box, they can’t find your website at the first pages. No matter how good your contents are, if the visitors can’t find it on the first pages of search engine result, you will not get any visitors.

Now, your task is make sure that your website is listed on Google first page when people searching for “how to make money online from a blog”. To be able to do it, you have to learn about search engine optimization or used to call as SEO.

Don’t worry if you know nothing about SEO, we will learn about it in the near future. For now just absorb and understand this fact first.

You should have an option or two to monetize it

There are many options you can take to be able to monetize your website. Most popular ways are:
- affiliate programs
- google adsense
- direct advertising
- link selling

I will talk about them later don’t worry. I just want to remind you that before you decide choosing your website topic and write contents around that topic you have a clear picture how you want to monetize it.

There are several points you have to understand before you start building your website, especially if you want to make a profitable website where you can earn some money from it. This article is just touching the basic understanding. I will talk more about them in the next articles. However, if you have any questions, feel free to leave it on the comment.