5 Easy Steps To Create Your Own World Class Website/Blog And Make Money From It.

Introduction. How Can A Blog Or Website Help You?

A blog or a website is one of the best platforms to amplify your voice online. You can build your brand or authority just by sharing your expertise to a certain topic through your blog.
Think of a piece of an online property where you absolutely have all the freedom to decide what to write or share. More often than not most social media platforms have their own rules or policies what or when to show your content. This time you make the rules, just make sure that it will benefit everybody.
Moreover, someone who owns a website or blog immediately earns the respect of people not only just by you being able to create one but also it shows how serious you are for such a subject that you would take time to build a blog or website.

1. Choose Your Niche.
This is very important your niche is something that you should be passionate about and that a sizeable number of people would be interested on it too. Your topic should be something specific but also has a potential for big market.
You will be talking about this topic for a long time so make sure that you would get tired to it easily. Also by ensuring that what you have chosen is a topic where a lot of people are interested in you are making sure that there will be an audience to your blog.

You can write any topic on your blog but it is best to stick with just one. Pick a topic and stick with it, most of the popular blog have one major topic. Don't pick a dozen topics for your blog. It is not only confusing but it also sends signal to your audience that you are not really an expert to what you are talking about. As with any brand your reputation is important.

2. Host Your Site.

Having a site hosted in a free platform like Blogger can be beneficial but to me it defeats the purpose of having the more leeway of creating a blog or website for yourself. What you need is a site where you have more control.

What I would recommend at this time is a leading hosting provider like Hostgator where you can start for as low as $3.95 a month. You already have an access to a world class very professional looking blog and website. Inside your Hostgator account you can also purchase a very competitive priced domain name inside and have a complete set up of a website.
Go ahead, if you still don't have one sign up here Hostgator choose a domain name of your choice, load a WordPress platform once you are inside select a FREE theme that goes pretty well with your niche then put contents to your site as you wish them to appear. If you are new to this and you need to be guided Hostgator has some set of instructional YouTube videos that you can go to every time you are a bit confused with the details.
There are also a lot of other step by step videos on how to build a WordPress blog or website with Hostgator that you can watch for FREE.
Here is one from YouTube:

3. Write Quality Content.

This is the part where you need to be consistent to be able to have a successful site. Quality contents are those that provide value, answer questions and guide readers to what they need to know. It would also help if your content is funny or engaging and that they relate to your readers very well. Make sure to make a consistent schedule to publish a blog post at least once a week but if you're too busy a once a month blog post can also makes a difference in building a strong following in the online world.

4. Send Traffic.

Sending traffic to your site is one of the most important tasks that you need to do for your website. A website with great content is useless unless people come visit your site.
Come to think of it, you may have the most wonderful message or very valuable product without an audience you do not have buyers or people to influence with your idea.
A. Submit your website URL to online directories and search engines. This includes Google, Yahoo, CityData, Bing, City Search, and many others that are based on your website topic. This will help you get your website noticed and bring in profits
B.Collect Emails
Collecting emails is one of the proven methods in sending traffic to your website. Every time you have anew blog post you can just send a message to your email list informing them of your content. This way you already have a captive audience that will eventually become your followers. You will steadily grow your presence online just by using this strategy.
C. Share it on Social Media.
Social media is not only huge and powerful but it is also a high PR ranking that will build the authority of your site. Organic traffic coming from social media is being interpreted by search engines as natural searches by people so it will eventually grow the reputation of your website.
Join to as many popular social media platforms as you can then make sure to share your contents every time you have the right opportunity
D. Use SEO.
To use SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or not? Seems to be the question that most bloggers need to answer or settle as their strategy before they create their contents.
With the latest updates of search engines, it seems that they are becoming more and more intelligent in detecting those contents that are created just to target keywords but lack the value or information the readers are searching for.
But SEO is the language how these search engines will be able to find you. The right strategy then is focus to your content then place your keywords in such a manner that they appear natural to your contents.
Create high quality content then place your keywords in such a manner that they are not just being stuffed into your blog posts. One mention of your keyword in a paragraph is enough, and if you can include it in your title or headings the better just as long as it appears natural in there too.
The right strategy then simply put is to use BOTH but do not overdo keyword stuffing as you maybe penalized by the search engines instead of being ranked.
D. Advertise Your Site.
Free traffic can be effective but it usually takes a lot of work and takes longer time before you get a respectable result. One effective way is to create a landing page for people to get included in your mailing list.
From then on they will become your first audience every time you have a new content to promote online.
There are a lot of ways to advertise online, you just have to be very careful as you may end up losing money without results to show for it.
You may use the popular ones like Facebook Ads and Google Adwords, start with small amounts to test the performance of each of your campaign then start scaling it up as soon as you see results.

Google Adwords is a paid service. Many other websites will give you free Google Adwords credits so that you can get your site up and running quickly and easily. Create your own ad, set up how much you want to pay out in a day, choose your keywords, and watch the traffic pour in.

5. Monetize Your Site.

This is most of the time the fruit of a successful blog or website. There are a lot of ways to monetize your website and it is so easy to do it just as long as you have a respectable amount of traffic coming to your site.

The most popular ways are through Google Ad Sense, Affiliate Marketing or creating your own products and sell it through your website. What I am doing right now is I approached local businesses in my city and offer my services to create a website for them. I then produce at least one article a week for their blog that I also created along with the website. They in return pay me a monthly service fee as a consultant for their online campaign.

Action Plan

Now that you have learned proven steps how to create a profitable website or blog, it is now up to you to take action. Take the steps outlined here and you are most likely achieve same results of successful bloggers and site owners. Go ahead, Begin with step 1 and before you knew it you are on your way to the bank collecting profits.Or if your purpose is just to influence people then you would see how your online voice have changed perspectives and affect lives.

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