STEP 1: Find A Niche

When I search for a niche idea, I try to find either a prob­lem that peo­ple want to solve, or a prod­uct that peo­ple buys already. There are many web pages and tools I go through in my niche selec­tion step. Click­Bank Mar­ket­place, Ama­zon Best­sellers, Pay­Pal Shops and many other resources to brain­storm some prof­itable niche ideas. You can find lit­er­ally thou­sands of niches in dif­fer­ent areas and new ones are pop­ping up every day. So, there will always be some niches that you could monetize.

STEP 2: Key­word Research

After I found a niche that I believe to be prof­itable, I do some key­word research. Although this step is as impor­tant as all the inter­net mar­ket­ing gurus men­tion, I do not spend days or weeks on key­word research. Since I can not be sure if I will rank high and get some traf­fic with­out try­ing and just look­ing at the num­bers. Here, I mainly use Google Key­word Tool and SEO­Quake add on for Fire­Fox to find prof­itable key­words and ana­lyze them.

STEP 3: Decide on the Con­cept of the Site

Once the key­word research is done, I think about how to mon­e­tize it. Will I go for Google Adsense, affil­i­ate sales or some CPA offers? Will it be an affil­i­ate review site, an info-​​blog or some other type? I look for related affil­i­ate prod­ucts, CPCs for related key­words and related CPA offers.

STEP 4: Find a Suit­able Domain Name and Reg­is­ter It

When the key­word research is com­plete, I look up for a suit­able domain name. The more a domain name is key­word based, the bet­ter it is. How­ever, I may go for a generic domain name — not one or two word generic names, like freesoft­ware or make­money of course — if I can not find the domain with exact key­words and if the one I selected makes me happy with it.

STEP 5: Set up WordPress

The next step is set­ting up Word­Press to your blog. This is as straight as it is. You can down­load Word­Press on the offi­cial web­site, if your host­ing provider does not sup­port WordPress.

STEP 6: Choose a Nice/​Niche Theme

After the blog is setup, I browse through free Word­Press theme resources to find a sutiable one for my niche. Since there are thou­sands of free nice-​​looking themes and every­day more are com­ing, I’ve never paid for a WP theme, though there are some won­der­ful themes that I would like to pur­chase in the future. You may check FreeW​PThemes​.net.

STEP 7: Con­fig­u­ra­tion of Set­tings and Plugins

Once I am happy with the theme of my new site, I go through adjust­ing the set­tings and installing the nec­es­sary plu­g­ins I will make use of. Some of the plu­g­ins I use:

All In One SEO Pack Con­tact Form 7 Advanced Perma­links No Ping Wait

There are lots of use­ful plu­g­ins you can find inside the Word­Press plu­g­ins archive. I make sure to make the blog avail­able to the pub­lic by chang­ing the pri­vacy set­tings and adding some ping­ing services.

STEP 8: Track­ing Traf­fic with Google Analytics

I love to track things and I am sure all the inter­net mar­keters are same since they are doing this busi­ness. I use Google Ana­lyt­ics for the time and it is really suf­fi­cient for my pur­poses. I add the code to the footer.php file just before the clos­ing “body” tag.

Now it comes to pop­u­lat­ing the blog and post­ing some­thing on it. When my blog has about 10 arti­cles and the theme is set­tled more or less I go with the last two steps.

STEP 9: Sub­mit to Directories

There are many many direc­to­ries that you could sub­mit your web­site, I have a list of them and sub­mit to 3–5 direc­to­ries each day. This will help my web­site indexed faster and will bring some link popularity.

STEP 10: Get Traffic

I have tried nearly all the traf­fic get­ting tech­niques like forum post­ing, blog com­ment­ing, video mar­ket­ing, social net­works though what I really like to see is the vis­i­tors com­ing from the search engines. The organic SEO is my favorite, since you work on it only once and if you do it right, you can expect vis­i­tors for your life as long as there is peo­ple search­ing for the terms you built your SEO efforts on.

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