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How to Build a Website That Works!
By Anton Hout

You may be a small business owner who already has a website that is under-performing. You may be a work-at-home mom (or dad) who wants to earn extra income for your family. You may be a net-savvy internet marketer who wants to take their affiliate or information marketing to the next level. No matter what you want to do online you are likely going to need to know how to build a website that works.

When it comes to building websites there is a lot of confusion about the best way to go. However, it’s important to decide what your goal is before you begin. Yes, even before you register a domain name!

If you just want to “put up a website” and don’t care about whether or not it gets any traffic or has any potential to earn you an income, that’s easy. There are many free services that will let you create a personal website to share stories and pictures of the grand-kids.

On the other hand, if you want to create a website that generates leads or revenue you will want to do a bit more planning.

Most Websites Fail, But It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way!

The harsh reality is that most websites fail. In fact, many beautifully designed websites that have cost thousands (or more) to develop are complete flops.

You may have fallen victim to such a website. You poured your heart and soul (and money) into a website project and then it just sat there on the web like a virtual lump, a ghost-site where you could almost hear the wind whistling and see the tumbleweeds blowing by.

This happens to the vast majority of websites and it leaves their owners frustrated, angry and broke. After wasting so much time and money they give up in disgust and declare that it’s impossible to succeed online.

It’s true that there are many pitfalls and gotchas on the web. If you don’t know how to build a website that works and the stages of planning that go into developing a successful site how can you expect your website to draw traffic, generate leads or ever earn you any income?

How To Build a Website With a Solid Foundation

It may sound obvious, but when you build your website you will need to start at the beginning. The beginning, “that’s my domain name, right?”, “that’s getting a designer to build a snazzy site, right?”, “that’s making sure to find the right products and add a store, right?”. Wrong, wrong and wrong.

Sorry, but that is the recipe for disaster that most website owners follow… with predictable results. Getting a name, a great location and filling a store with products may work for a traditional offline retail business but it will get you nowhere fast on the web.

Your site has to begin with your visitor. The person you want to attract to your website. You will have to first find out what they want and then, and this is important, how they are searching for what they want.

This brings up another point. Online nobody cares about you, your website or your business. Online your customers are just people with a problem in search of a solution. In short, they are looking for information that will help them solve their problem.

Care and Feeding of Search Engine Spiders

When most of us are looking for information on the web we rely on search engines like Google to help us find what we are looking for. Your customer will also enter search terms (or keywords) into Google when they are searching for information related to your business. That is where your website needs to begin.

The best strategy is to do keyword research to find out what phrases your customers are searching for, then optimize pages on your website so that search engines rank them highly for those keywords. For example you might sell a dog training program. In this case you might find that the phrase “dog training” is a popular search term. However, you would also find that it is highly competitive and that many other websites have pages about “dog training”.

Keyword Research: Your Foundation of Success

This is where using keyword research tools such as those included with Site Build It! (SBI!) are critical to your success. SBI! provides the #1 website researching, building, hosting and marketing tools in the world. Included in SBI! is the keyword research tool called Brainstorm It!

Using the information provided by Brainstorm It! you might see, for example, that the phrases “dog training course” and “dog behavior problem” might also be popular but have much less competition.

With this marketing intelligence you would build and optimize pages on your website around these profitable keywords. Your pages will then be specifically related to what your customer is looking for and search engines will rank them highly because they are directly relevant to the search terms used by your customers.

Using the same approach you would expand on your core website theme adding sub-categories of pages based around keywords that your research shows are popular and have a chance of being ranked well by Google.

Don’t Skip the Fundamentals

This is the beginning of how to build a website that works. So, the foundation of any successful website is quality original content that has been optimized to rank highly with search engines for winnable keywords. If you just skimmed that last sentence read it again because it is very important. If you do that right your website will begin to attract free search engine traffic.

Free traffic is good. Paying for traffic has it’s place but first you need to have a solid foundation of a website that draws its own free traffic. This is another fatal mistake website owners make. They skip the research, don’t have quality original content, don’t optimize their pages for highly targeted keywords and are then forced to rely entirely on expensive traffic they have to “rent” through paid advertising. Ouch! Those expenses can torpedo your chances of success.

While lots of traffic is good it isn’t worth anything if you can’t convert those visitors into customers or leads. You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t even mentioned earning money from your website yet. It’s still too soon. First you need to get to the next critical stage of how to build a website that works. Building a relationship with your visitors and preselling them. You really don’t want to try to hard-sell your visitors at this point.

Do Your Visitors Know, Like and Trust You?

Imagine you have walked into a retail store and are immediately ambushed by rabid sales reps asking how much you want to spend. It’s off-putting and would likely make you want to run for the door. The same is true on your website. Ask yourself who you would rather buy from or accept the recommendations of; a hard-sell pitch artist or a respected friend?

You can’t be everyone’s best friend on the internet, of course, but there are ways that you can build an ongoing relationship and develop credibility with your visitors. The first step is to provide excellent content and make a good first impression. You can also provide a free e-course, a newsletter or e-book that they can download. Provide something of real value.

You can use an email autoresponder to set up a simple 5 part mini-course. This is a great way to show your knowledge and build your reputation with your customer. Again, don’t assault them with sales letters. Instead, use your mini-course to share real information of value. Toward the end of the course you can make an offer or recommendation. You might also ask them to join your newsletter list.

Your List is Your Lifeblood

You’ve put a lot of effort in and learned how to build a website that draws traffic. It would be a real shame to have visitors come to your website once and then leave, never to return again. That’s another reason why creating a newsletter is so important to your website’s success. In fact, some internet marketing experts make building their mailing list their #1 priority. The importance of building your mailing list cannot be stressed enough.

You heard me mention SBI! earlier because of their Brainstorm It! keyword research tool. Well, here is another reason to consider developing your website with SBI! SBI! includes the functionality you will need to add forms with autoresponders (for your mini-courses) as well as a newsletter builder complete with double opt-in functionality.

As far as how to build a website that works without using the tools and support included with SBI! goes, it is possible. However, it would likely wind up costing you a great deal more in both time and expenses. For example, there are third party tools for keyword research and autoresponder/newsletter capabilities but the cost of just these two tools alone could cost more than SBI! and SBI! includes far, far more tools than these.

In some cases the third party versions will offer advanced features but for the majority of websites they are overkill and are just too expensive. SBI! provides the core functionality that is needed by most website owners to build a solid, professional, profitable online business.

However, the principles involved in how to build a website that works are the same regardless of whether or not you use the all-in-one tools provided by SBI! or if you decide to go it alone and hobble together an expensive array of third party tools. SBI! is not the only approach, it’s just the best approach that I’ve found - especially for beginners, those who don’t have technical programming skills or those who don’t have a lot of time and money to waste.

What You’ve Been Waiting For - Monetization!

By now you’ve researched your market niche, planned your site around in-demand keywords, optimized your pages to get high ranking with Google, earned the trust and respect of your visitors and you are now ready to be rewarded for your efforts.

If you already have a business and are using your website to sell your products or services you already know your primary source of revenue. However, there are many ways to earn income from your website. For example, if you are a real estate agent your primary goal will be to generate leads and gain new clients. However, you might also be able to earn from referrals to lawyers, moving companies, home decorators, etc.

If you offer local art lessons you could join an affiliate program and earn a percentage on sales of art supplies or you could create your own how-to-draw or how-to-paint e-books and offer them for sale through your website.

Those of you who use SBI! will know that SBI! not only gives you a powerful set of tools to research, build, host and market your site, but it also gives you a step-by-step guide that shows you exactly what you need to do, when to do it and why. So when you were planning your site you will have already been considering the future monetization potential of your market niche.

Others Have Done It and You Can Too!

Anyone who has a hobby, a special interest or knowledge from work can create a website around that theme and develop a profitable website. Once you know how to build a website that works and it is drawing traffic you can add multiple revenue streams… affiliate programs, sell your own products or services, referrals, net-auctions, sell advertising space (such as Google AdSense) and many more.

I hope I’ve been able to show you how to build a website that works. It is possible! Whether you already have a website or are just thinking of building an online business for the first time you can succeed with a little planning, the right tools and a bit of guidance.

Anton Hout is an SBI! Instructor with extensive experience in the advertising, graphics and internet marketing fields. For more information about the powerful all-in-one tools and step-by-step process used by thousands of successful SBI! website owners or to contact Anton with any questions you may have, please visit SBI-Classroom.com

Accelerate your progress and flatten the learning curve. Learn how to build a website that works with the SBI! eLearning Course taught by Qualified SBI! Instructors. You will complete this course with a strong foundation in internet marketing and a fully operational online business.

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by Steve Mitchell

There is no question that starting your own business working from home can have huge rewards and benefits, but why consider starting your own business working from home? Think about what your other options are - working from an office, or factory? Spending hours on the road working from your car? It’s only when you consider the other ‘ways to work’ that working from home with your own business is clearly attractive to so many.

Let’s look more closely at comparing working from home to your other options

COST SAVINGS - Running your business from an office or any other commercial location involves cost - often big cost when you add up rent or possible commercial mortgage payments, rates, electricity and other utility costs, communication costs - phone, fax, internet - all these costs are often much higher when you are working remotely from a commercial property.

Working from home you can cut much of these costs down dramatically because you will likely be paying residential tariffs for all these outgoings, which invariably work out much cheaper than commercial tariffs.

Also, don’t forget you can actually charge yourself ‘rent’ and a percentage of utility costs for using part of your home as a working environment - ‘home office’. What that means is a percentage of what you pay in your mortgage can be offset against any business tax you pay because you can claim a certain amount as rent, etc, even though you’re working from home. Ask your financial advisor to get more info on this.

MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF TIME - How much time do you (or would you spend) travelling to work? Apart from perhaps the odd phone call on your mobile, or sending a text or two, it’s hard to be effective with your time travelling to work, especially if you drive to your workplace.

I key benefit of working from home is you can get up later (making it more lifestyle orientated), and yet still start earlier. Why? simply because you will have cut out all the ‘dead time’ travelling to and from work. You could be working from home, more refreshed, more effective, and certainly more productive.

QUALITY OF LIFE - One of the challenges of working in these fast-moving times is how much our quality of life, particularly family life suffers. How much time do you spend now away from home because of your work when, if you were working from home, even taking a tea-break means you get to see your partner and possibly your children more.

My father loved me and my sisters deeply, but had a high-powered city job, and so left in the morning to catch a train before we were awake, and invariably didn’t get in ’til after we were asleep, often unfortunately not seeing us awake for days on end! Now that wasn’t really his fault because his ‘job’ demanded he work a long-distance away, but if you had the choice to start your own business working from home, allowing you to spend much more time with those you love, doesn’t that make far more sense?

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by James T Turner

Many successful blog owners have chosen a niche in which they know something about or have passion about. Rare is the blog owner who has jumped into a niche they knew nothing about and have been successful. Sure, we all have a passion for money, but that alone doesn’t qualify any of us as experts. The successful blogger will search his or her interest to find a profitable niche and then dominate that niche for every penny it’s worth!

What we’ll be learning in this article is the process in which you’ll use to find a profitable niche. There are a lot of niches out there. The problem is, most are not profitable or very difficult to monetize. Our goal here is to find the ones that are under utilized and have an income potential better than average.

Isolating Your Interests

The advantage of starting out with something you’re knowledgeable and passionate about is that you’ll have plenty of ideas to blog about. One of the biggest failing points for bloggers is finding something to continually blog about. This is why it’s important to choose something you know and have interest in. It doesn’t matter all that much what the niche is. Perhaps you love to Cook, sew, work with wood, play Soccer or watch professional football. Any of these niches can be profitable. If you’re truly passionate about a subject, you’re more likely to turn out interesting and informative articles. This will keep the traffic to your blog coming in, thus making your niche a profitable one.

Do not get discouraged if your interest is not a wildly popular one. As long as you dominate your niche, you can be profitable. If the niche you choose isn’t a hugely popular one, then start another blog on another interest of yours. I have a friend who blogs about working on his Muscle Cars. With the price of gas these days, you’d think there wouldn’t be much interest. But on an average day his blog receiveds over 2000 unique visitors. His income from this blog is about $1300 per month and steadily climbing. Did he start the blog to make money? No. He started it because he likes working on old cars and wanted to share his knowledge with others. This is the secret of successful blogging!

Learning About Your Competition

Once a blogger has selected one or more subjects he is considering for a blog, it is time to begin evaluating the competition. This includes viewing other blogs covering the same subject matter. This will not only give the blogger a good indication of whether or not the market is already saturated with blogs on this subject and the quality of the existing blogs on this subject. Based on this information the blogger can make an informed decision about whether or not he feels capable of competing for blog traffic with the existing blogs.

Considering the Purpose of the Blog

Blogs can be created for any number of purposes. Politicians use them to get their message out. Activist use them to recruit and energize members. Some of us use them to make our income from them. There are any number of reasons for starting a blog. Why is this important? Because if you’re starting a blog to make money, you need to make sure there is enough interest in your subject to drive traffic to your blog. Traffic will be what makes you money. Without traffic, there will be no money coming in from your blog!

With that being said, it’s very important a new blogger choose an interest that is capable of driving traffic to their blog. The subject should be somewhat popular or broad enough where your message can reach a large audience. If you’ve chosen an interest of yours that you have knowledge in and are passionate about, then this step will be rather easy for you.

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