Normally, I'd tell people to do a little keyword research and buy a domain name. The cost of a domain name is roughly $7-10 per year. Plus you'll need hosting, which can cost anywhere between $2-$20 per month. The great thing is that you can just get this for free at a number of sites. This blog is actually hosted on a free service provided by Google known as Blogger. It gives me a website address, hosting and the software to run it. You just sign up and make cash online now.
How to Make Cash
Most people think that the key to starting a successful business is coming up with what they're selling, how they'll do that, and how much cash they could make. This type of thinking is wrong. You should be thinking about the market, customers and how you can get them to your site. When you're starting out, go in a very small niche of the market. If you're curious what niche means, it is just a smaller section of a market.
For example, if weight loss were the market than a niche of that would be weight loss for pregnant women. The reason that you can make cash online this way is that you can more precisely target the audience. If I was a pregnant woman, than in the back of my mind I might be thinking that a regular weight loss might not be safe. Another reason is that the niches are less competitive. Let's face it, weight loss is probably the bigger market out there for stuff to sell and competing with big companies is tough. If you want to make real cash, you go into niche or a sub-niche and really dominate it.
Keyword Research
Just as you would want foot traffic into a local business, you're going to want visitors to your site. That means you want search engines like Google to send you related traffic to your site for free. That is how you're going to make cash instantly. But you won't make a cent until you've actually ranked in Google (or other search engines) for a great term.
Many people get the idea that they're going to give their site a cool name. Cool names only confuse search engines. If I'm searching Google for leopard skin lamp shades (very sub niche) than Google would like to see those words on the site and the title of your site is big. If I have a site named "Leopard Skin Lamp Shades" and you have a site called "Shades Above The Rest", who do you think Google would view as a more valuable site when searching that term? The answer is obvious.
If you want to make serious cash online than you need to focus on the keywords people will be searching. If you go back a few years ago, it was quite difficult to determine exactly what people were searching. Sites like Google weren't sharing the search volumes. So it was difficult to determine what was getting searched several thousand times a month and another keyword that would be searched a hundred times a month.
The good news is that Google has released a keyword tool. All you want to do is type in the niche you're interested in (like lamp shades) and see what comes up. After you do a search, you should see something that says "Match Type" and it will be set to "Broad". You'll want to change that to "Exact" and it should give you decent estimate on the search volume.
The amount of volume you'll need to make cash online today will be dependent on the niche, but starting out usually means that you will go with low volume. As someone that is a little better at this, I usually go for a minimum of 3000 per month, but since you're new I'd probably hang around 1000 per month or below.
For example, "cheap lamp shades" will get around 1000 searches a month, so call your site that. Make posts about cheap lamp shades and try to include in some other words that aren't searched much like "yellow lamp shades" or "globe lamp shades". Eventually Google, and other search engines, will figure out that your site is relevant to your main keyword and it will start sending you traffic.
You also have to do link building, so take a look on my post titled make cash by link building.
Where do I Make my Site?
Okay, at this point you already picked out your niche and found great keywords that you want to use. The next step on how to make cash from home is putting up a site and how you do that for free. There are many different sites that allow you to put up content. Some will function like blogs and others will just be regular stand alone pages. Here is a list of some of the more popular free places to create a site and make real cash on the internet.
There are many more sites out there that you could use, but keeping this list simple will probably be better for you. You can start building sites, while learning how to make extra cash. This is how you get started. Once you get the site up, you should start doing link building which shows search engines that other people find your site useful.
I also wanted to tell you what to do after you see a little success. Many people get a site to make cash online and they'll sit around trying to nurse the site, so it will make even more. The best way to do this is to just make another site and do the same thing. It's much easier to get 10 sites making $10 a day than it is to get 1 site to make $100 a day.
I also wanted to tell you what to do after you see a little success. Many people get a site to make cash online and they'll sit around trying to nurse the site, so it will make even more. The best way to do this is to just make another site and do the same thing. It's much easier to get 10 sites making $10 a day than it is to get 1 site to make $100 a day.
