Okay this will be a general money post, doesn’t matter if you have a blog or a normal website or even a dynamic online store, whatever it is, it will be covered in the following post.
Making money online isn’t all that hard, its kinda like making some apple pie, if you have the right ingredients and cooked on the perfect tempreture, you’ll be on your way to a really good desert.
1. Content
Content, is what makes or breaks your site, if you think you have done all the right things for your site’s content and you still can’t make any money, then look around, take a look at your competitors that are making money in that niche, there has to be something they have that you don’t.
Usually users around the net, doesn’t matter if its from search engines or referrals, they are looking for specific info, if you made a site in a certain niche then you must have the topics they need.
2. Ads
65% of the webmasters tend to whore out there site in every way they can, links, cpc, affiliates…etc
IF yoiu have more ads then info on your site, whywould any one come to your site to begin with?
It shows how much you really care about the site, if you have alot of ads on your sites that completely take over the content, it’s pretty obvious to just about anyone with half a brain that this site owner isn’t trying to give me good info hes just trying to make a quick buck.
Revise your monetization plan, remove the last 2-5 ads you’ve added.
3. Affilliated with…blah blah blah
I simply hate it when I go to a site and there are like tons of small banners that say “This site is in the top 100 at..blah blah blah”
I get the point that they might be getting traffic from them, but come on! it’s just so annoying to go to a site with 50-70 banners in the footer area, it takes a while for it to load itself, specially because those top 100 sites have slow servers!
Heres a tip, don’t use any 3rd party hosted images, it slows down the site and annoys your users.
4. Speed. Time is money.
Extending into my last point, speed is essential, you need to have a site that loads within 2-7 secs because the more time it takes the more visitors you loose. Here are some factors that effect your load times.
- 3rd party hosted images
- widgets/banners from crappy websites that are slow themselves
- using way too many trackers in your script
- image heavy design
SImple is sweet.
5. Marketting/Promotion
I’m a firm believer that I can promote my own sites without any money spent on it, atleast for the first 6 months.
But I do not suggest or even remotely consider spamming or those crappy ways of promoting and link building such as spamming and uselesss email marketing. One of the reasons you might not be making money could be the fact that you have crappy traffic, which is gained through crappy marketing tactics, there are at least half a million posts on how to promote a site the right way online, it’s amazing how people can still choose the wrong way still.
One of the reasons I make money is because of my highly relevant and responsive traffic, it took alot of time and effort to get it too.
