by bwheeler on January 2, 2010
In my last lesson on Building a Profitable Website I talked about developing keyword rich content based upon your long-tail keyword search phrases. This lesson in Building a Profitable Website discusses the implications of web hosting on your business.
To be successful online you must have reliable web hosting. Nothing will impact the success or failure of your business more than having a web host that is unable to keep your website running. No matter how well your content is optimized based on your keywords and how well your site is promoted, if your website is offline because of your web hosting provider. [click to continue…]
by bwheeler on December 30, 2009
Many businesses have looked to social networking to build relationships beneficial to growing their business. There is no questioning the power of social networking when used to engage customers, build respect and trust within a market niche. However, there is also many personal benefits of social networking as what happened with me this past year when social networking saved Christmas.
Yes, social networking saved Christmas for me and made me look great in the eyes of my wife. [click to continue…]
by bwheeler on December 28, 2009
Today I got banned from an online forum – DJChat.com, a DJ Chat forum that promotes itself as “Real Networking for Real DJS”. DJChat.com doesn’t get the concept of social networking. DJChat.com obviously should change their tag line to “Almost Real Networking for Real DJs” until it understands social networking and how it can be used to actively engage its user community. DJ Chat is more than a DJ Chat Discussion forum, it is a social network as it tag line suggests.
DJChat.com’s moderator, Dan McKay provided the explanation “You cannot promote your website here. Feel free to rejoin under another ID.” This is highly strange considering that I am a DJ and own a DJ Business that goes by the name “theDJs.ca” – a domain that I have used to promote my Mobile DJ business for some time and recently converted to an online forum with the tag line “Discovering Music and Friends”. In fact, I still use the forum to promote my DJ business and I’m still known as “theDJs.ca” making me a “real DJ”. All my business cards, flyers, brochures and business literature includes the website address for “theDJs.ca” and I actively promote the site as part of my business. [click to continue…]
by bwheeler on December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas from my family here in Newfoundland, Canada.
This year has been a very busy yet rewarding year for me professionally and personally. After having a successful career in the information technology industry for over 25 years, I finally started several blogs, grew my online presence, experimented with SEO and released two free comprehensive guides all in the span of 12 months.
With Christmas here now is a time to reflect and to evaluate the truly important things in life. For me, I always struggle with having a balance between family and work. There is always something to do work-related but this year I found time to have a balance that brought me closer to my community and to my family. I’ve continued to volunteer in my community and to enjoy the rewards that online life has brought me. [click to continue…]
by bwheeler on December 17, 2009
In the last lesson in my series on Building a Profitable Website I talked about registering a domain name relevant to your chosen niche.
This lesson in Building a Profitable Website talks about building keyword rich content based on your previously developed long-tail keywords. It talks about using hot topics in your niche and using these with your keywords to develop keyword rich content. [click to continue…]
by bwheeler on December 10, 2009
So far in my series on Building a Profitable Website I have examined how to identify profitable niches, select appropriate long-tail search terms and identify relevant topics and issues relating to those search terms.
You should be well on your way towards having an understanding of some topic areas that you will be used to develop content in the coming days.
Today’s lesson in Building a Profitable Website is a little lighter topic. It is meant to keep the process moving while you are busy researching issues, identifying blogs and forums and relating things to your long-tail search terms.
This lesson in Building a Profitable Website deals with selecting and registering a domain name for your site. [click to continue…]
by bwheeler on December 8, 2009
In the last lesson of Building a Profitable Website, I focused on identifying profitable website niches. Throughout the lesson I illustrated how to examine website topics, analyze those topics potential for profitability, select relevant keyword terms and develop long-tail search phrases.
I had also asked that you examine several topics of interest and develop 15 – 20 long-tail search phrases that would be profitable and allow our sites to rank well in the search engines.
Like you, I have also done my homework and have selected my own topic for building another profitable website. That’s the nice thing about these series of articles – I am putting into practice everything that I talk about to make this as meaningful and informative as possible. [click to continue…]
by bwheeler on December 3, 2009
One of the most important and often most difficult aspect to building a profitable website is identifying a niche market to fill that is not over-saturated by competitors. Sounds simple enough but think about this just for a second.
Perhaps the most profitable niche to occupy involves credit cards. A search in Google returns almost 69 million websites. To compete in that niche will require an enormous amount of time, energy and resources. Another profitable niche market is web hosting but that market contains over 73 million results in Google and it means putting your new site up against some gigantic competition right out of the gate. [click to continue…]
by bwheeler on December 1, 2009
Building a profitable website involves a basic strategy I have created over the last few years. It has allowed me to build websites relatively quickly, have them indexed in the major search engines and generating revenue. It involves some work but I have seen very consistent results and some very profitable websites. [click to continue…]
by bwheeler on December 1, 2009
There are many websites and blogs that talk about building profitable sites and making money online. In fact, several bloggers such as John Chow has made a living from telling people how he makes money online. However, I have yet to find anyone who has successfully mimicked the successes of the elite bloggers and even fewer who reap the large rewards promised.
Many of these “Make Money Online” websites are successful at one thing and one thing only: making money for the website owners. These “make money online” sites provide enough information to keep you coming back for more. These sites are created to encourage you to subscribe to their “tools”, “online courses”, “webinars” and other “make money resources”. [click to continue…]
