Today I stumbled upon an article that I feel would be useful to anyone who is trying to attract visitors to their website (who isn’t).

It makes three very crucial points. The first is that fact that if you want to have a good Google page rank you need to have what the searcher is looking for, good content.

The next point is about making that content accessible. People with all kinds of browsers need to be able to read your content. Search engines use a robot that doesnt understand and see a page the way we would see it. It is necessary to make your content as accessible as possible by limiting the use of flash, images of text (without alt text or caption), and iframes.

The last but equally important point is telling others about your content. This means getting involved in forums around the net, and providing links to your site. It doesnt have to be a forum specifically about your topic, just getting more visitors to your site will help your Google page rank.

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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.

Now that you have completed the initial planning required to create a niche money making website, its time to bring it to the internet and make it a reality.

To make this sometimes complicated step simpler, I will break it into parts.

Step 2.1 Finding a Webhost

For the computer illiterate, this step involving domains and servers is often confusing. If you understand how the internet works and know what kind of service you need, or have completed this step previously, feel free to skip this section.

While some people prefer to buy webspace and domains separately, I feel like it is easier to manage multiple websites from an all in one service such as 1and1. For 3 dollars a month, they will give you 5 gigabytes of space (more than enough for at least 100+ websites), 10 databases (You will see why this is important later in the guide), and 250 gigabytes of monthly bandwidth (amount of data that can be sent and recieved each month). There are many other great alternatives, feel free to leave a comment about providers you suggest and I add them the list of webhosts.

Step 2.2 Creating your Website

Now that you have purchased webspace, its time to put it to use. lets begin by downloading the parts that we will be using for our website.

• WordPress - A content management system that will make it really easy to add pages, links, and manage your website design.
• FileZilla - A decent open source FTP Program. You can use any FTP program you like. I prefer FlashFXP.

Wordpress setup:

1. Install your FTP program of choice (If you cant do this by yourself, email me).
2. Connect to your website with the username and password provided by your webspace provider (If this wasn’t given to you, call customer service and ask, they love to help you).
3. Unzip the wordpress zip file you downloaded earlier.
4. Open the folder and right click on the file named “wp-config-sample.php” and click rename and rename the file to “wp-config.php”
5. Right click on the file now named “wp-config.php” and then click “open with…” in the dialog box that pops up select WordPad.
6. Minimize the file that is now opened in WordPad
7. Go to and login to the administration panel of your webspace provider, if your following in my footsteps and registered with 1and1, here.
   These next few steps are 1and1 specific and will vary depending on your service
8. In the “Administration” tab of the administration panel, click “MySQL Administration” in the “Websites & Applications” section.
9. Click “New Database” and for the description of your database put the topic of your website.
10. Go back to the file that you minimized previously and replace “wordpress” with the Database name provided, ie. “db192910739″.
11. Replace “username” with the User name provided, ie. “dbo192910739″.
12. Replace “password” with the Password provided, ie. “kHhX4ax3″.
13. Replace “localhost” with the Host name provided, ie. “db621.perfora.net”
14. Save the file and close it.
15. Go up one directory and rename the “wordpress” folder to a word or acronym that defines your website topic.
16. Upload the folder that you just renamed to your webspace using your FTP program. This may take a while.
17. Go back to the Administration Panel and click Domains
18. Click on the domain you are working on.
19. Click the “edit” button next to “Destination”
20. For “Home Directory” select “Existing directory”
21. For “Existing directory” select /yourRenamedWordpressFolder
22. Click the “Ok” button to save the settings
23. Go to your website url. ie. “http://moneytaryweb.com” and click the link to “install.php”
24. Follow the installation steps, it is very simple
25. Take note of your username and password, then click the link to “wp-login.php”
26. For simplicity sake, we will now change the password. After you have logged in, click “Users” and update the information as you feel neccesary.
27. Congratulations Wordpress setup is complete. If you go to your website url you will now see the default wordpress blog.
28. If you want to take the time you can now install what I deem necessary WordPress Add-ons or plugins.

Step 2.3 Choosing a Template

Now that you have Wordpress setup, the personalization begins. We will start by finding a theme for our website.

Templates can be downloaded from:

• ThemeViewer - The offical WordPress Theme archive.
• Alex King’s WordPress Theme Browser - A large variety of Themes that can easily be browsed.
• Kaushal Sheth’s WordPress Themes - Many decent themes.

How To Install a Template:

1. Once you have found a Theme that suits your website, download it and unzip it if necessary.
2. Open your FTP program and connect to your website
3. Open your “wordpress” folder
4. Open the “wp-content” folder
5. Open the “themes” folder
6. Upload your downloaded Theme to the “themes” folder
7. Go to your WordPress Administration Panel. ie. “http://yourUrl.com/wp-admin/”
8. Once you’ve logged in, click Presentation
9. Click on the theme you downloaded
10. Check to see if the change took effect by clicking “View site”

Step 2.4 Putting in Content

Now That we have our site looking the way we want, its time to start putting in the content.
The following guides will help you through the process:

• How to add a post
• How to edit/delete a post
• How to add a page
• How to edit/delete a page
• The difference between a page and a post
• How to add a link to the sidebar
• How to edit/delete a link from the sidebar

On to Step 3

Now that you have built your site, you are ready for step 3, publicize.