Welcome to what will be the ultimate guide to creating a money making website. I will show you step by step how to create a website that can earn you money. I will make steps as easy as possible, but I expect at least a little technical knowledge.

Know What Your Doing

The first and most important part of this process is knowing what you are going to be creating. do a quick google search for any hot niche topic, and you will find the type of website you will be creating.

There are many resources out there to help you figure out what your doing.
My favorite resources are:

• Digital Point - A great forum for asking questions and looking for guides about marketing, Search engine optimization, and general web design.
• SeoPedia.org - A blog created by internet marketing specialist Cristian Mezei. This is a great place to read up on marketing tips, search engine optimization, and advertising options.
• Entrepreneurs’s Journey - Entrepreneur’s Journey was created by Yaro Starak, of Australia who makes his money online. His site features several articles about his experiences and guides to developing money making websites. If you are going to persue making money online, read this article.
• KeywordAvalance - While I have personally never used this source, I have heard that it is well worth the money, providing its users with in depth guides about everything it takes to create a money making website. If you are not 100% serious about making money using advertisments, don’t pay for this source!

Figure Out Your Niche

If you ever want to make money with a website, you will need to stand out to your visitors and give them what they are looking for, so that they might click on a advertisement.

You will need to find and think out a topic that people are looking for.
For a topic to work, it needs to feature the following:

• At least 3 subtopics to explore and discuss so that you will have plenty to write about. and attract a variety of visitors interested in your topic.
• The desire to follow the topic for at least one month, and write a new article about it about twice a week.
• The ability to beat the competition and become the top topic when a user searchs for your topic.

If you cant think of a good niche yourself, the following websites and tools can help:

• NicheBot - Finds what people are looking, good keyword research. (if anyone knows a free open source alternative let me know)
• Liz Strauss’ Guide to finding a Niche - This article gives five+1 helpful tips to finding a niche that will work for you.

Preparing your content

Before you start worrying about getting a website on the internet, you need to plan your approach. By doing this your site can be ready to run from the time it hits the net. Before your website goes live you need to do the following:

• Have at least 10 or so 200 to 500 word articles before you start. This does not include fluff pages such as privacy police and copyright page.
• Plan your domain name - keyword domain names arent as big as they used to be. for example, if your website was about finding theraphy, therapistfinder.com isn’t a good idea for multiple reasons. Instead, choose a name that will “brand” your website, something that says what your about.
• Plan keywords that people might use to search for your topic and plan articles based around those.
• Find website related to your topic, and ask to exchange links (provide a link to their site and they will do the same).

On to Step 2

Now that you have a plan, its time to build your site.