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Learn Money Making with your website - the Delon Way
Written by : Delhi Online Creator ( www.delon.in ).
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Step 1 – Your business idea

If you already have a business or a business idea, you can skip this step. If not, then spend some time writing a list of all the things that interest you. The chances of succeeding in your new business are far greater if you are doing something that you are passionate about. This way it won’t feel like you are doing a job when you start spending time on this. Don’t worry too much about a product at this point, just think about the things you like to do – perhaps you like cooking, or playing football, or foreign travel. Try to write down at least 5 things that you enjoy.

Step 2 – Choose and Register a Domain name

The next stage is to decide on and register a domain name. There are many websites selling domain names and you should be able to get one easily for less than $10 per year. There is no need to sign up for a domain name with your web hosting company if they are charging more than this as domain names can be transferred easily between hosting companies.

Try to choose a domain name that has some of your keywords in it. It’s also an advantage to have a name that is relatively short and easy to remember.

Step 3 – Build your Website

At last, you are now ready to start building your website. Many people skip the research stage and dive straight into this part, but your chances of success are much higher if you spend time on the research part first.

Depending on your knowledge and experience in this area you may decide to do this yourself, or pay for a web designer to do this for you. If you are doing it yourself, it helps to know HTML, but there are also many web page editors such as Front Page and Dreamweaver which you can use to construct your website with little or no knowledge of HTML.

Try to ensure that your site is clean, uncluttered and easy to navigate and that it looks professional. Have someone proofread your copy to ensure that there are no mistakes. Also ensure that you use your keywords from your Wordtracker research in the title of your page, the headings and throughout your copy. Use one or two of your chosen keyword phrases per page and don’t overdo the use of your keywords as search engines may consider this as SPAM.

Step 4 – Market your Website

Finally you need to market your webpage. It is simply not true that you can just build a website and wait for visitors to come without doing any form of internet marketing.

Internet marketing is a huge topic, out with the scope of this article. The sort of techniques that you may want to consider include reciprocal linking, writing and publishing articles, pay per click (PPC) advertising such as Google Adwords and Overture, classified and solo ads, participating in discussion forums that allow a signature in your postings and advertising on related (but not competing) websites.

These 7 steps take time and effort, but if you do your research and persevere you are likely to see excellent results.

Don’t forget, that once you have been through this process once, you can repeat it again and again until you have multiple websites making an income for you while you sleep, or relax on the beach!

You can earn a good income from advertising on your website. Here are some tips to help you increase your takings from your advertisements.

1. Targeting Your Advertisements - You should try to fit the banners and links you display on your site to the targeted audience, unless you signed up for the programs that will rotate ads on your site automatically.

2. Time - Usually your first affiliate program will not net too much of an income. The income improves as you perfect your site and your usage of advertisements and banners.

3. Ads about Free Stuff Do Better - When we go to a website we expect information, goods and services free of charge. Because of this, advertisements on free items will usually fare better than those about things that have to be paid for. If your affiliate program has free stuff on offer, try them out on your site to see the response.

4. Good Traffic is Good Business - You need to have a lot of people clicking on your banners and taking up the offers given there. Thus you need a good amount of traffic going through your site to generate income.

5. Credibility - It is necessary to use all the products and service you advertise to ensure their quality, and authenticity. There is a relationship of trust between you and your visitors. Don't try to make a quick buck on wrong advertising. Remember, honesty is the best business policy.

6. Content is King - You website must have genuine content. Unending lists of advertising links may fool some people, but not for long.

7. Rotation and Weeding - Always supervise your advertising statistics. If an advertisement does well keep it, or else rotate it, or use a different banner. The advertisement sometimes has no takers, due to unattractive picture or wrong target audience. Be patient and keep working on improving your traffic and polishing the ads that appear on your pages.

8. Text Links Vs Banners - Text links that are part of the content of your site will generally do better than banners or other text links. Sometimes elaborate advertising copies work well. Some find banners working just as well. You may wish to do some testing on your own site to see what works best for you.