Make Money From Your Website And Not Costing You A Cent.
Please Bookmark This Page, so you can keep coming back to continue with the Steps. Things that are in Red cost a little money, BUT NOT REQUIRED. Remember the Old Phrase "You Get What You Pay For". Yes, you can do all this with ZERO Cost, but you wont make as much as if you were to Invest $15-$30 / Month to Maintain the Site. ie, Submissions, Pay-Per-Clicks, etc. Goto Our Blog and Bookmark. As you go along with the Different Steps and Need help with something, you can find a lot of useful Tips & Hints on Running/Maintaining your website. Websource Blog
STEP 1 (THE TOPIC/IDEA)
This is the hardest part of the whole process. Questions. "How should I make my website?" "What should I make my Websie?". Do you want to:
Sell Products, (Direct or Affiliates)
Sell a Service,
Sell Services,
or just make
Articles and Blogs?
Which ever you do, You need to find what's on the Market. What's in High Demands Right Now? Get a piece of paper, brainstorm and start writing down notes. Do some Search online. Find out what the Top 100 Keywords Are. Goto google and search for, "Top 100 Keyword Searches".
ONCE you have an Idea and you Know what your Topic Is, Move to STEP #2.
STEP 2 (DOMAIN & HOSTING)
Great, Now that you have an Idea, It's time to Put it on the internet. But you need a Home to Add your Idea(s) to. Theres a lot of Free Domain and Hosting Sites. But most have Advertisements OR they have extensions such as (.tk) (.co.cc) and So on.
Domain Name. Come up with a Catchy Name. Something Simple and Something People will Remember Easily.
Free Domain
Hosting. A place to put all your Gifs, HTML's, Jpegs, etc.
Free Hosting
Follow The Steps on how to Link them Together.
Or
Webstarts - A good start. Domain, Hosting, Webpage Templates, Everything you need.
(You can get your Own Domain Name with a .com or anything else you like as well as hosting from GoDaddy
STEP 3 (LANDING PAGE)
You want to come up with an Eye Catching Landing Page. The first page is the MOST Important Page. Something that will get your Audiences Attention and Keep them on that Page. Better Yet, They will Bookmark it and Keep coming back.
Tips on Creating a Landing Page.
For Free Templates.
STEP 4 (AFFILIATES)
Now is the time to START Signing Up with Affiliates & Affiliate Network(s). The FIRST one on your List is Google. Sign up for the Adsense, You can also sign up for the Blogger as well. But also check out the Other Functions Under Google you might need later.
Here You can make money by People Clicking on your Advertisements and you can alsoAdvertise as well for as low as $.05 per click.
ShareASale.com (Network)
People Search Engine
For More Affiliates.
STEP 5 (MARKETING/ADVERTISING)
NOW that you have a KILLER Page to Advertise With Affililiates to make Money off of, What Next? Advertising. There's MANY ways to Advertise.PPC (Pay-Per-Clicks), Simple Submission, Banner Exchanges, Link Directories, Social Marketing, Articles, Email Marketing, and Many More.
* Start with Simple Submission.
Submit your site to Search Engines. Theres a lot of Free Services out there. Example: Submit Express Tip on having a Better Search Rank or Here.
* Banner Exchange.
Find other sites thats like yours, send an email asking them if they want to do a Banner Exchange. Or goto Forums that has people offering Banner Exchange. If you dont have a Banner, Free Banner Creator.
Multi Banner Exchange
* Link Directory
Find as many 1 way Link Submission you can Find. They help build BackLinks.
Link Directory
Link List
* Articles
Find websites you can Write Articles and Post. Such as Digg.com, Bukisa.com, and many others.
* Email Marketing
Start a Newletter and get people to sign up for Weekly/Monthly News. WARNING: Be Sure you read the Fine Lines of your Affiliates about this. It CAN Be Consider Spamming and will get your Account Terminated. But some places such as HTMail.com and StreamSend.com will pay people to read these types of emails.
STEP 6 (SOCIAL BOOKMARKS)
Now Find as Many Social Sites you can Find and Sign Up. ALL of them are Free.
Myspace
Digg
Bebo
Hi5
Orkut
STEP 7 (THE $$$$$$$)
Just sit back and watch your Income/Revenues slowly increase and come in. If you have a Killer site, you don't need to do much after this. Everyone will do everything for you. People will Bookmark, Tell Friends, Spread it around the Internet and Put your link onto their site as a Resourceful site to go to. Thats what happened when I made the Halloween-Master.com. the problem is that it's a seasonal thing. So, it does good only 1-2 months out of the year. I had wished I found something more useful for the Whole Year.
Anyhow, Thats all in a nutshell. To stay up-to-date on Tricks, Tips, and Events, Be sure to visit our Blog and Bookmark.
I would like to say Thank You for your Interest and taking the time to Read This. Good Luck and I hope you do Well.
If you need more Help on setting up your Webpages, be sure to visit these 2 Forums. They have been VERY Helpful to me.
Webdevforums.com
Webdesignforums.net
I'm also starting an Affiliate Forum if you would like to join. Affiliate Marketing Forum
It's new, so it doesn't have a whole lot of people. BUT I do check it often.
You can get Information Books to help Improve your Skills
NOTE: Might also want to setup a PayPal Account. Affiliate Networks are slowly going to be Paying you by PayPal.
GOOD LUCK
Free Multi Banner Exchange