Hey guys, first and foremost I want to say I've been reading posts on here for a few weeks now and it looks like an awesome place with very knowledgeable people, and I look forward to posting more as my success starts coming in. I have thought long and hard on what type of website I should develop, and I have came up with an idea that I believe to be quite good, albeit not the MOST original, but quite work intensive and therefore IMO hasn't been developed yet to its full potential. It is related to College/University knowledge, and will be targeting that community for the most part (Business students in particular) and offering them certain valuable information. This is as much as I will say and as much as I believe needs to be said, if more information is necessary in order to help me simply let me know. I have a few questions regarding this idea: 1) Should I first write a large amount of content and have a certain level of completion achieved, or take more of a consistent approach where I start with very limited amount and simply add on to it while already developing SEO and links and stuff? 2) I have a dilemma in that I can't really think of how I will be able to monetize this site other than possibly selling school books as an affiliate once I gain traffic, but I'm worried that may not be very profitable, any suggestions on if/how I would be able to monetize this type of site? 3) How important is design in this type of website, and what should I focus on while designing it? 4) Once I DO launch it, what should my daily/weekly work consist of, ie. what would be the best way to promote? just continue writing more content with all extra time, or some other methods (as you can see I'm not extremely informed on this aspect of things, linking, and submitting to social networks and such)? 5) anything else that you guys believe I should know/learn/keep in mind let me know, and what can I expect ahead of me, monetary-wise? THANKS!!!!
Lots of good questions there. Let me at least tackle the first one: take the "drip-feed" approach with your content. Don't try to do everything upfront, as the content you create may not actually be what your audience wants. Better to ask what your target market wants and then create the content. And, so you don't end up spending all your time creating content (while neglecting SEO, etc), drip-feed it. Remember - you only need to be one step ahead of your audience. Plus, by drip-feeding your site will always seem fresh.
yes, thats a good point, and kind of along the lines of what I was thinking, but I think I should have a minimal amount of content at least when I launch, think 10 pages is good? thanks for the reply
yep, I agreed with annaj, analyze your traffic, find out what keyword they are coming from and write content with this keyword, you will find your traffic is growing.
If someone has a minute to simply comment a little bit more on these questions it really would be a great help. question 2 is one that I'm particularly concerned about.
You could monetize your site with ads from Google Adsense, or use banners to promote an affiliate program. If you are looking for some help, shoot me a PM. Always happy to help a noob get going..