So you've come up with a great idea for a website which you think will be really good once you've filled it with a lot of useful content and should earn you a bunch of money once you've dropped your AdSense ads into it and have a bunch of traffic. You build the site and put in the first few pages of content. What do you do now? Buy links? Try to write provocative content that will get linked to? Buy contextual ads from one of the various ad services? Simply wait for it to start getting indexed and hope for people to find you in the search engines? Also, let's say you have a budget of $100-$150/week to spend on improving your site or building more sites, features, whatever. How would you best spend your money?
I translate your question in simple words: Please tell me everything I need to know to become a professional webmaster (and yes I want the secrets two, the links if possible and I would like to succeed quickly and make a lot easily). Don't take personally SnoDevil, but your question is way too broad. Start by reading let's say 500 threads on DP and you should be able to ask "answerable" questions Good luck
The best way to make money from a website is to create a website with the aim not to make any money. It will be a passion, and you'll probably work harder on it, and if you're not worrying about monetizing it, you can watch it grow exponentially. Though if you're sole aim is to make money, then create stuff people want, promote it in the relative places (hotscripts, template sites, myspace - whatever) and the traffic - and subsequently money will come. Though in my opinion websites that aren't borne out of a passion are never as good and will never make visitors stick.
PAH! What rubbish! If you want to slog your guts out to monetise with adsense then maybe you are right. Better off finding a way of making substantial amounts of money not using adsense. This requires thought as to how to make money rather than: "building a site about something you like and sticking adsense on it" (that is a hobby!) Notting
Maybe, but the internet is full of trash websites made specfically for adsense. I would estimate 90% of people making money online do so out of fellow webmasters. What do we end up with? Websites that don't offer anything new. The best websites are those borne out of passion, not desire to make money, maybe these will succeed best in the end. What i'm saying is there is no point coming on here saying "how can i quit my job and make money online" because if you're doing that you've got the wrong goal in the first place and it is to the detriment of the web as a whole.
Well, since this is in the Adsense thread, I assume that he means via adsense. Yes, there are other ways to monetize a site, but since it's in this thread, let's assume Adsense rather than any of the other means/affiliate methods.. So it's a hobby...should that be a negative? If it's truly a or about a hobby and you truly are passionate and knowledgeable about the content and dedicated to putting unique, well-written info out then that's how some authority sites get established.
Wow, that was unnecessarily cynical. And no (trying to keep it civil here) I don't need you to tell me "everything to become a professional webmaster". I have studied this in depth and have a rough idea of how to go about this. I have already started, on more than one front. The purpose of my question is (and is based on the assumption that those who know what they're doing usually have some sort of basic formula they follow) was to find out how you usually get started? i.e. What do you place more emphasis on? I thought that whilst I might learn something from it, that it could be of use to others as well who have less of an idea than I do. Also, the question about the budget was to find out what you guys would do with it. I know roughly what I think I have to do with it, but I thought it would be good to find out if anyone's had any relevant experiences about how to spend a small budget like this successfully.
Make a site about your passion, your hobby and you will earn out of it This is the phrase that i heard so often when i first came to dp, and all i can say is that completely wrong.crap.bullshit.period If you want to make money, think about something that sells, although many won;t agree. You know what is one of the biggest mistake here in dp? Everyone came here and ask question, share "experiences" etc... but none of them are making real money. Those kids who stall all day long in the adsense thread, barely can make more than 5 dollars per day. I used to do the same, stay all day long in dp, read stuff etc.., but i ended up with less than 100 dollars per month. Then i went out of dp, have read it only once or twice per week, and think my own way of making money. Now i am earning several thousand per month. Not much, i would say, but i am growing. I came back here cause i find people willingly to work for cheap money in the bst trade. Have you seen any of the big earners giving advice in dp? I knew some guys before and when i checked their profile i was surprised to see that in the last month they ahve barely posted several posts. What am i saying? the dp is an excellent place for starter, but if you just rely on it you will never grow. Good ideas never go public. You can earn easy money on the web, despite that a lot of people says is impossible, you can earn a lot of money and in an easy way, but this way you would not find it here, on dp or in any other forums, or in different ebooks. Gather all the knowledge you can from here, from other forums, read all the ebooks, and after that came up with your own plan for succes. That;s it.
Thanks nickflame, good reply. I agree though, too many people trying to make a fast buck instead of trying to actually build something of high quality that will stand on its and pave the way for numerous monetization methods.
Now this one is really contradictory (makes things easier for me if I want to be cynical) Ok, here are some answers to your more specific questions: - I always use zero budget because it is the best way to have a 1000....% ROI (but it takes a lot of hard work) - I am a fan of free high quality traffic so I concentrate on SEO - First three to six months are always difficult because SEO isn't effective yet and I have no PPC budget - Quality is the heart of all my websites, I don't use "shaky" business models ...
Studied in depth vs rough idea how to go about things. Yeah it sounds contradictory. I guess what I was trying to say is that there's a tonne of information out there, much of it contradictory. So you can study in depth before starting, but really, like a lot of things, you're not going to have a really good feel for how to go about things until you've experienced doing it. Do you write all your own content, pay others to write it or work on a user-provides-the-content model?
I write all my content However, if you can get others to write quality content for free (user-provides-the-content) that's ideal!