How To Make Your Computer Print Money In 5 Easy Steps.

I bet it caught your attention, didn't it? I'm working on my title. Sorry to disappoint you but this article is not about fraud or how to get rich quickly. This is how to create a successful website that will generate a lot of traffic and make you a lot of money.

This is a huge topic and you can keep writing a book on each individual step. Here I am going to provide a general outline of 5 important steps to create a successful website in the long run that will help and encourage you.

1 - Choose your own niche

Choose something that makes you happy about research and writing because you are both going to spend a lot of time. It should not have too much competition. For example, do not select "Electronics". I guarantee you will never get a better ranking in search engines than Sony or Amazon.com.

Think of something. Check how much your keywords are costing for advertising Check If they are really expensive, you can choose another niche. Check out a few sites with similar topics so you can see for yourself who is going to compete for rankings in search engines.

2 - Choose your service provider and register your own domain

Your service providers must be reliable. If your internet connection is always down or your server is constantly crashing, it is going to be difficult to maintain a successful business.

Your domain name should contain the most important keywords that you expect to rank well in search engines. It should be a unique thing that is related to your niche and easily branded. By brandable I mean people are easy to remember and connect with your site.

3 - Create your own content

Your content must be unique. Google will avoid you if you have stolen content. They now detect duplicate content and refuse to list it. They want to provide effective results to their users. People are simply crawling websites by simply copying and pasting content, and Google has decided to shut it down.

My advice is not to bother with Google. They are the 900-pound internet gorilla you don't really want to leave. If you can't get listed in search engines, you're pretty ruined from the start. So give them what they want. You will need 30-100 pages of good content even before creating a website. You can start with just a few pages and add one page a day - just like you would a blog - but it will take longer to get indexed. Do you notice any themes about search engines here?

4 - Create your own website

You are about to use a program like Dreamweaver or a content management system. I suggest considering a CMS. You need to update your website frequently, which can be difficult even for experienced web designers. A CMS removes all the hassle of publishing new content every day. But you must make sure that your CMS is search engine friendly. Probably the easiest thing for a beginner to do is to use a blogging program like WordPress. Search engines love blogs, they are very easy to update and above all WordPress is free.

You should build a website with search engine optimization from the beginning. SEO is a very in-depth topic that I can't get into here. Basically, you want to make sure that your website can be easily crawled by search engine robots or spiders. This requires all sorts of things like proper meta-tags and making sure your pages have the best keyword density.

Also, you must make sure that all your pages are loading fast. Most parts of the world still do not have broadband. The average surfer will wait about 4 seconds before they click anywhere else. If your pages load too slowly you will lose a lot of traffic. Very important on the side as well. If people have trouble finding their way around easily, they will be frustrated and leave quickly.

5 - Get traffic to your website

Setting up a business on the net is different than any physical position. In the real world, it's all about location, location, location. If your store is in a high traffic area, it is easy to find customers. But no one on the net just goes by, they look for certain things. Unless your site is listed on search engines, there is no way for anyone to find it - it's up to you to drive traffic.

There are several ways to do this:

You can buy it by creating ads and then bidding on specific keywords so that ads appear whenever someone searches for them.