If you plan on making
millions online by opening your own website, read
this, and try not to cry.
It is true that you can
generate millions of dollars online, I know,
because I have done it. I will attempt to layout
the basics for prospective owners so you have
some idea of what you are getting into.
Some years ago, you could
open a site good or bad and likely be selling
products within a few days without ever doing
more than building your website. However, today
is a new world and the internet competition is
fierce.
When you build a website
you are competing with every other website online.
That mease every business online. And that my
friend means your are bidding for commecials
during the superbowl.
To make money in todays
market you either need a 300 IQ or a million
dollar bank account.
So the question of the day
is, how do you make money without investing your
life savings and 100 hours a week of your time?
Its not as grim as it seems.
There are great new ideas coming online daily and
the search engines are always looking for new
content. But you will need two definite things.
First, you must be patient. It takes about 1 year
for an average website to get enough pages listed
in google to even begin seeing an occasional
visitor. Second, you need to be persistant,
adding several new pages to your website each and
every day for at least one year.
That right, there is no get
rich quick potential online. You missed that by
about 7 years. But, there are new internet
milionairs born each and every day.
The trick to making money
today is hard work. Buy starting with a single
page today and adding 2 or 3 new pages daily you
will look very attractive to the search engines.
They see a growing website with new emerging
content and will gladly list your pages. But they
do this very slowly to prevent spammers from
posting thousands of pages in one day and eating
the search results. You can not expect to see
quick results and when you do, the results will
be a small trickle of traffic.
Don't worry. Its not
massive appeal that you need. You only need one
visitor to make a sale. If you are selling
realestate in a local market and have spent a
year writing articles about realestate in your
area, the people coming to your website will be
looking for that specific information. If only 20
people a day show up on your website and realize
you are the local authority on land in your area,
they will contact you to buy.
The upside is that you will
continue to get that trickle of traffic forever!
Now, if you spent one hour
each day adding content to your website. After a
year you have 500 to 1000 pages that are indexed
in the search engines. You might have invested
300 hours total and likely not more than $100 for
the anual hosting fees. If one person calls you
each day and becomes a client interested in
buying a new home, you have a streaming source of
income that in better than any other form of
advertising you can buy.
If you can spend 1 hour a
day and get a serious buyer or seller
consistantly then you probably would. Yet most
people will not, if the rewards are one year away.
Most people spend less than
5 hours total on their website and then wait. And
wait. And wait. Then get angry when nothing
happens.
Building a page with your
name and address and what you do is mostly a
waste of time. Without a comprehensive website
you will have nothing. And just like a book, who
will buy a book with one page?
If we compare the search
engines with book stores, which bookstore will
use valuable shelf space to stock a book with one
page? NONE! As well, the search engines will not
list your site or ever refer anyone to it.
Most businesses fail due to
lack of effort. The same is true online. The
rewards go to the hard workers and the dreamers
feed the money machine and line scammers pockets
paying for search engine optimization and web
design.
Of course the philosiphy
can be expanded exponetialy. Our company own
hundreds of websites each earning a small income.
Combined, they earn a truck load of cash. It's
all dependant on how much effort you put in. Of
course a website with 1 million pages will make
more than a single page site.
In closing, if you think
that you can open a website and see a mailbox
full of checks tomorrow. Don't waste your time.
But if you want a strong business tool to aid
your income and support your existing business,
get started today. Every day that passes is
putting you one more day behing your ultimate
goal of wealth.
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