Recently, I upgraded the Godaddy account to use Grid hosting (earlier i was using shared hosting) and the results are awesome.

One of the problem with shared hosting is: inability to balance load, as shared hosting will have thousands of domains served from single server. Hence the server could not manage multiple requests from various web sites and this results in low performing web sites.

There comes Grid Hosting that Godaddy uses, i am not sure whether other web hosting provider uses this technology or not today. However, Godaddy claims that they are only providing this kind of solution.

What is Godaddy Grid Hosting ?

As far as with Godaddy, they are saying that Grid Hosting helps to balance load on shared web sites. Again, it is shared hosting only but managed with multiple servers.

That means, the amount of requests coming from various web sites are served by multiple servers and hence your web site may not be low performing.

Definitely, it will be better than serving from single server. This kind of hosting service they call as 4GH (4th Generation Hosting).

To mention, you don’t need to manually control the resource allocation (CPU usage, memory usage), it is done automatically based on the amount of load (or traffic).

Godaddy says, they will add servers to the Grid based on the bandwidth requirement (add servers based on demand).

• The performance of your site never decrease, when traffic of other hosted site increases.
• Also, when one of the server goes down in the Grid, the other server stands to serve your web site – hence more reliable hosting whereas in shared hosting these are the serious problems.

The following diagram shows the pictorial representation of 4GH hosting and how it differs from standard shared hosting.

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Website Loading Speed vs Grid Hosting (with proof).

Before upgrading my shared hosting account to 4GH hosting, I was planning to go for dedicated server as this blog started getting more traffic and also, i have hosted network of blogs with single shared hosting account.

• Basically, with Godaddy shared hosting account i felt the performance was poor.

When i was looking for dedicated server plans across different hosting providers, i found 4GH hosting option in Godaddy itself (this i came to know, when it contacted Godaddy support complaining their poor performance).

• Once upgraded to Grid hosting, the performance of my web sites increases a lot resulted in improved loading speed. It is well known fact that your hosting server performance directly impacts the web site loading time.

In my case, grid hosting improved the loading speed by 4-5 times.

The following screen shot shows the Site Performance metrics captured from Google Analytic. You can see the drastic improvement in loading speed, this is a proof. Currently, it takes ~5 seconds to load this site.

Website loading time improved with Godaddy Grid Hosting

Even there are great improvement in loading speed with my tech blog, which used have lot of images in the home page.

As you are looking for Godaddy Grid hosting review, my recommendation is: go with Godaddy Grid hosting.

First time users: Sign up for Godaddy here.

What hosting provider you use already ? What’s your experience with Godaddy Grid hosting ?

Leave a comment below which helps to bring out real user experiences…..Thanks.

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I would say, doing business over Internet is almost the same like doing business in real world. It requires a plan, action, strategies, marketing and everything same like the real world business.

Out of those numerous methods, web site real estate (yes, that’s buying and selling web sites on Internet) is one of the most profitable way of building wealth.

Long back, i published an article on Making money by selling domain names and Making money from Keyword domain names in which the following statistics were covered like:

• Business.com resold for $350 million
• Wine.com for $2.9 million
• CreditCards.com for $2.75 million etc.

See, how web sites are in demand over Internet ? especially, the domain names. There are lot of opportunities available in this area of business and all you need the right approach or strategies – instead of rubbing your head from scratch.

I could see the 2 sides of this web site real estate:

• First, buying web sites which are meant for profits or web sites which are under utilized and utilizing it to maximum extent – this definitely requires to understand what is really involved in making profits from web sites ?
• Secondly, selling web sites which are demand in market. This is not a complex strategy however, you must understand how to setup and build web sites on a demanding market ?

As a beginner you must need a guide to understand all these strategies first, i would recommend you to go through this ultimate guide Flip This Website released by Zac Johnson (one of the established Internet Marketer, living life out of web sites).

As a personal advice from my side, you have to consider the following points when you want to make money from web sites. Though, it is a huge topic and i thought of giving a short note on each of the steps. I will try to cover each and every topic in detail soon.

Buying Web sites & Making Money.

Buying web site is one of the quickest business strategy which doesn’t requires much hard work. Building a brand new web site involves lot of work and you have to dedicate a lot of time – or you have to spend money in case of outsourcing.

When you buy a web site (it is like buying ready-made dress materials) – you are directly moving to the profit stage of a web site. Basically, you don’t need to crack your head.

• Browse the marketplace – Find web sites from the marketplace which are available for sale. There many such marketplaces available: Flippa is one such example.

Few Parameters To Consider In Buying Web site.

Success or worth of a web site is measured by numerous factors and following are the few to consider while buying:

• Domain Name, Prefer Keyword Names – The domain name is more important and it should have profitable keyword in it.
• Content Rich Web sites – Make sure the web site has valuable content which helps the reader – it should not be a “under construction” site.
• Consider, Search Engine Ranking – Find the title of web sites, search on major search engines like Google, Yahoo – see where it ranks in the search result page (at least, listed in top 20 would be great).

Selling Web sites & Making Money.

On the other side, instead of buying established web sites, you could build web sites and sell for profits. This definitely, takes time when compared to buying web sites however, you have to sit and work in order to establish a web site.

The following are the steps in selling web sites – in short.

• Finding Profitable Market – Do market research and identify where there are demand for information/products – you have to build related web sites.
• Setup Your Web Site – Find keyword based domain names, host it, install a content management system like WordPress and configure the design using free themes/plugins.
• Adding Value (Content) – Publish articles which are related to the topic and also, the articles must address the visitors problem – basically, towards helping the reader. You have to push the web site on search engines using SEO, market a bit little…
• Putting it For Sale – Finally, release the web site for sale: Same, you could sell it on web sites like flippa.
• Best Strategy – You could buy an established web site and re-sell it for more profits

Final Thoughts….

Done, these are the crispy tips on how to buy and sell websites ? As a final note, building web site requires lot of hard work and time. However, when you are buying web site and re-selling it – you could easily make profits without doing much work.

As a beginner, you could start with little and trade on mini web sites. Once you are familiar with the steps/strategy, go for high margin trades – this way you could effectively buy and sell web sites for the long term.

You could make 100′s and even 1000′s of dollars by this method.

Flip This Web Site is an ebook which explains all these steps in detail and also, you will get access to the video tutorials which gives you hands-on advice.

The ebook covers the following topics in detail:

• Chapter 1: Immediate Warning Signs of a Bad Web Site Listing
• Chapter 2: What is Flippa and Why You Need to Use It Now!
• Chapter 3: Buying & Selling Sites: What Makes a Site Sell!
• Chapter 4: Create, Flip, Profit… then Repeat!
• Chapter 5: Promoting and Outsourcing Your Sites
• Chapter 6: 3 Action Plans for Continued Success
• Video Series: Six Videos Walking You Through the Process
• Mini Niche Web Site Guide: How to Create Killer Mini Sites
• BloggingTips Story: The Before, During & After Process of a Big Sale
• Extra Bonuses: Interviews, Case Studies, Resources & More!

Also, the Video series covers the following topics:

• Video 1: What to Watch Out for When Buying Web Sites
• Video 2: Introduction to Flippa
• Video 3: Buying & Selling Web Sites on Flippa
• Video 4: Building Your First Site to Flip
• Video 5: Promoting & Outsourcing Your Site
• Video 6: The Final Steps & Moving Forward
• More information here

Now, How do you make money ? buying web sites or selling web sites or buying-n-selling web sites ?

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Traffic is the growth source of every online business web site and it is the lifeblood !

Without Traffic, your web site is dump and your business never gets exposure to any one in this world. So online business is all about driving traffic – which is the key factor to work on. There are other factors which are more important than traffic generation however, without traffic all those other factors become ineffective.

Similar to a real world business, say you setup a super market and loaded with tonnes of items to sell and what happens, if no one visits your shop ? it is useless. Hence the business is dependent on visitors or more preciously on customers. (i have published a similar business case study/example here on, how to make money in business ?)

Now, we could say – Driving CUSTOMERS is all about online business…

Okay, lets see more on this topic and in the end will understand the importance of driving traffic – finding targeted traffic for your business online – achieving the purpose/goal…

Web Site Traffic Strategy.

You build web sites, you build blogs and in the end – ultimate goal is growing your business. Whatever you do, is for the benefit of your business. In other words, constantly we are finding customers for product or value in hand – that’s the simplest definition of business.

Hence, i am keeping value creation at one side and attracting visitors on the other side. These two are highly interdependent and relay on each other.

• Without value – no one will visit your web site and with out visitors – you could not show your value or product to any one. There has to be a mutual synchronization between these two entities. That’s, value creation and showing it to people – the ultimate aim of traffic generation.
• Simply, have value in hand so that you could attract people by showing them – that will be the best business strategy.

Find Customers Not Just Visitors.

For the growth of your business, traffic is vital. That’s pretty clear now. The sources of traffic and nature of traffic decides a lot in your business. We all know that generating targeted traffic is more important than just driving huge number of traffic (may or may not be targeted).

First, the targetness is highly decided by the source of traffic, that means from where you are getting visitors ? Either from search engines, from social media tools, from other web sites (or referral traffic) or direct visitors. In these sources – at least search engines and social media tools are highly controllable in terms of deciding the nature of visitors.

In other words, your content highly decides the nature of traffic from search engines as well as social media tools.

And also, how well you are networked with similar people, decides the nature of traffic from social media tools as well as the referral traffic.

• Simply, have content which serves the customer needs and get networked with those people who are related to your business, done ! Now you are sourced with targeted traffic (or customer traffic).

Engaging The Most Out of Traffic – Define Purpose.

Yes, there are lot of stuffs involved and we have to play the game wisely in order to succeed. All these hard work will get benefited ONLY if you define the Purpose of your business. Without having a purpose, it doesn’t matter how many visitors you drive to your business site – its useless.

• Keep the ultimate purpose in front and attract people to serve that purpose. This way, you could utilize the targeted traffic well.

For example, if you are selling a product from your web site add value in-and-around your product, if you are offering a service add value by showing your expertise in front, or if you are offering advice (just blogging) keep the content in front – this gains maximum exposure.

Simply, fix the purpose of your business and attract people to your site showing that purpose in front !

Conclusion…

To conclude, you have to be more focused towards the purpose of your business than driving traffic. Have the business goals in mind and see, how you could potentially utilize the traffic for your business.

Always find alternative sources of traffic and do a lot of experiment with your visitors behavior so that you could tweak..n…tweak the strategies until you achieve the end goal.

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Characteristics of a Web Designer

Usually these are the characteristics that clients are looking for in the person they will hire to do their online tasks. You as an aspiring web developer should possess this skills so that clients will like you and will hire you to be a web designer for their company.

Basic knowledge about web technologies – since you will be making websites it is important to know very basic web technologies that you will be using in making beautiful websites for your prospect clients. Knowledge in cascading style sheets (CSS) and hypertext markup language (HTML) are only some of the basic technologies that you must learn to become a web designer. You can add up client-server architecture technologies such as PHP, ASP and even database technologies such as MySQL are valuable knowledge in making websites. Learn these technologies and you’ll become a great web designer.

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Can rapidly adapt to different web tools – creating websites before was a very time consuming and tedious task. In the different web tools such as WordPress and Dreamweaver today however you can already create websites in just a few clicks of the mouse button. As a web designer, you must be able to learn and adapt to new technologies so that your knowledge would be updated and the websites you’ll be making will incorporate the latest we technologies

Creative – technologies can be learned but creativity has to be developed through constant practice. This is what differentiates great from good web designers. You must be creative in such a way that clients will like the page that you’ll be adding user-specific functions that are easy and confusing as well arranging the elements well so it will be pleasing to the eye. Practice will bring out your creativity and will be your edge against other web designers.

Keen eye for details – while many can make websites, when errors come, not all will be able to fix the errors. Great web designers can’t only make beautiful websites they can also troubleshoot their work in case a problem arises. Without a keen eye for the minute details, you won’t be able to fix the errors.

With these characteristics in mind, it won’t be hard for you to make beautiful and user-friendly websites. Just remember that more than making websites, you earn only when you satisfy the needs of your clients. With these personal traits within you, you won’t have a hard time looking for clients and you’ll have no problem addressing their needs. Aim to have these characteristics and in time you’ll also flourish in the web industry. Good luck on your web designing career!

More Useful Reading For Web Designers…

• 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
• 10 Usability Tips for Web Designers
• Help! I’m Clueless About Web Design
• 53 Steps to follow if you want to become Freelance Web Designer
• How To Become A Web Designer

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The idea here is: to create game store website (to sell download-able games and earn money).

When i say, building a game store website, you could think of lot of technical stuffs like:

• Categorizing the Game products
• Listing Game details/description pages
• Adding Order / Download links etc.

All these requires a great investment of time and knowledge, when compared to building a regular blog. You game store should have extensible features to add new games and to quickly add description about each games to make it available for download/sale.

At the same time, do you know the Gaming affiliate web sites ? Yes, there are many affiliate web sites which shares you revenue for each game you sell using your affiliate link.

Few to mention are : BigFish, Alawar, Nevosoft, Reflexive etc. If you have not already joined them, better sign up for an affiliate account.

Demo Game Store Page

Now coming back to building free game store.

How To Create ?

• Install wordpress to your web hosting and make a wordpress blog first.
• Second, install Zamango Money Extractor wordpress plugin.
• This plugin helps to turn your regular wordpress blog into a money making game store ! It has the features to automatically add Game pages along with Game descriptions, Download Links, Order Links etc.

This Zamango plugin makes everything simple for you. Have a look on the Demo Game Store, your game store will be looking like this.

Check the Zamango website for information about this plugin.

Interestingly, using Zamango plugin you could create multi-language gaming stores (not only English, many other languages). Once you setup the plugin, it automatically shows your affiliate links in the game page. Hence for every sale you could earn commission from affiliate sites.

Also, Zamango has the capability to show the best affiliate link even though you use multiple affiliate sites. Check the FAQ page for more information.

Video on Game Store Plugin.

I tried to find some good videos on this topic and found 1 which explains/shows the plugin features…(its in ru)

If you are looking to create your own gaming website then WordPress + Zamango is the best free to use combination. Once your store is up, you have to bring visitors who are interested to buy/download games.

That’s it !

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In reality, people don’t pay attention to their ideas at most of the time. We could not predict, how a “silly idea” may change your own life. That too applicable for online based web site businesses. With the evolution of blogs and social media tools, there are tremendous growth in field of online business.

Interestingly, not all of your idea may work well. A bit of luck you need, at the same time, based on the market needs (that’s demand), the value of your idea varies. So i thought of sharing my own ideas which are most common yet worthy to try out as your next website.

#1 Trending Topics Are Meant For Profits.

Trending topics are always hot in Internet. It spreads faster and gains attention of people quickly. People do follow trends in any industry and every one wants to stay tuned with the latest information, news.

• The idea is to focus a specific market, and share the latest trends. This way, you could bring a wider audience under your control by making them to follow your web site. You could drive more targeted visitors to these kind of Trending Websites.

#2 Discussion Forums (on future hot topics) That Grows By Itself.

Discussion happens on a topic and it never ends. Every one will have different opinion and always some one there to trigger debates. The idea is to start a forum on a “future hot topic”. Find out the such future topics in Internet to start from today.

• For example, 3D television’s are emerging and in 1-2 years the complete world will move into 3D entertainment.
• Keeping that in mind, this will be right time today to launch a “forum on 3D” to get into the market earlier. So that after 1-2 years, your forum will lead the 3D television industry.

Think such future hot topics and launch a forum today itself.

#3 Simply, Build Niche Websites.

The simplest of all ideas, building niche web sites. Many of the successful affiliate marketers are applying this business strategy. Build a tiny web site on a micro market and sell products focusing a small audience. Build 5-10 such websites, sit and earn money. This is a most common idea but it works only when you play the wise game of SEO.

• An article on how to make money from a new website ? may help you further.

#4 Web store To Sell Android/iPhone/Tablet Apps On Focused Market.

The market of Android, iPhones are trending a lot. It is expected to grow even wider in the up coming years. Even now its late to get into this market, but you could easily fill gaps in the market. Focus a particular audience and sell hand-held applications to them.

• For example, start an app store focusing “teenagers” or “woman’s” or “kids gaming industry” or focus “tablet-pc market (emerging one)” which definitely works well. Now-a-days, people are going crazy behind these kind of hand-held applications.

An article on how to start iphone app business ? may help you on this topic.

#5 Amazon Product Website – Still it works !

Amazon still tops the race. The conversion rate on Amazon is higher when compared to other networks. People are more comfort to buy products from Amazon. Simply, become an Amazon affiliate and promote all kind of Amazon products through your website. This business still works as along as you are able to drive visitors who are looking for products online (i mean buyers).

• A course on building Amazon web sites may help you further.

#6 Simple Problem Solving Utility Websites.

Internet users are mostly looking for solution to their problems. The idea is to take such problems and provide solution.

• A simple utility web site which takes input from the user and helps them to solve their problem. Few examples, a simple online tax calculator, online insurance calculator etc. focusing a particular audience works well.

These are “build and forget” kind of web sites which consistently grows in the market.

#7 Social Media Application Sites.

Social Media application or utilities are still on demand. Shall develop a simple web application which helps to manage social media tools like Twitter, Facebook on a single page. All you need to use their exposed developer API’s to build such tools. These kind of tools are almost saturated in the market but still you could narrow down to a specific market/audience’s.

Further, you could go up steps further in linking multiple social media tools at one place.

#8 Market of Health Care – Still it works !

Whatever technology changes, the market of Health care dominates everywhere. There are always room to enter this competitive market but its worth investing your time and money. Again, you should always be focused in your idea towards a specific audience.

• A simple directory to locate Specialized Doctors in your location or a directory to locate Specialized Consultants in your locality are few of the examples.

#9 Always Think, “Outside the Box”.

This is a general point, always think out of box. Don’t go by others directly instead, show a “slight variance” in what you are doing. That variance brings you the winning situation. Websites are meant for profits provided you are able to bring the right audience and make them satisfied.

• To conclude, don’t just start a new website with an idea. Instead, spend quality time to analyze which idea works? which idea busts? and take wiser decision, there’s no hurry !

Now, what’s your idea ?

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There are situations where you want to configure the number of blog post appearing on your homepage. In the initial stage of blogging with WordPress content management system, even i blinked my eye’s on how to control the number of posts ? WordPress is too flexible that you could take control of it properly as well as effectively.

How Many Blog Posts Is Preferable ?

Before seeing this, it is good to understand that how many blog posts you should display in the homepage. It looks silly but it has an effect on SEO as well as in the page loading speed.

In terms of SEO:

• The title of the blog post (generally, your theme shows them as H1 or H2 pages) matters because it decides the keywords you linked from the homepage of your blog.
• Secondly, the content or the excerpt that you display for each post on the homepage decides the quality of content published on your homepage.
• More content is always good and your homepage appears in SERP for more number of keywords because of higher probability with more content/keywords.
• Generally, by default number of blog posts in homepage is configured as 10. Its optimal and preferred by many bloggers.

In terms of page loading speed:

• In my blog, i have reduced the number of posts on the homepage to 5. The reason behind this: page loading time. Yes, when i had 10 blog posts shown on the homepage, it takes more time to load the page. Because of the Thumbnail picture which is shown on the side below the post title’s. So when i reduce from 10 posts to 5 posts, the loading time considerably reduced to great extent (5 big images download time saved).
• If you want to keep the load time reduced, its one of the option to reduce the number of blog posts.

NOTE:

• If you reduce the number of blog posts to appear on the homepage, it actually reduces the number of links in your homepage too. Google’s quality guidelines says, “Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number”. It has advantages too.

Change/Configure Number of Blog Posts

Okay, i believe now you are very much about the number of blog posts in your homepage and its effects on your blog.  Lets see how to configure the number of blog posts ? Its simple.

• First, login to your WordPress dashboard.
• Go to Settings -> Reading from the sidebar of dashboard.
• There is a field, “Blog pages show at most” change it to the required number of posts. In the  below example, i have selected 5 as the number of posts to appear.
• We are done.

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Finally, after changing the number of posts in your homepage, keep an eye on the effects. After a week or two, see the traffic statistics of your homepage and understand whether traffic had increased or decreased or its maintained in the same level. Because its always a habit of good bloggers to measure the effects/results of whatever optimization we do…

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Promo Codes are nothing but discount coupons for buyers. Since we are going to create Promo Code and spread the words to the buyers, we could easily make commissions for each sale. This is the first time, i am promoting Dreamhost web hosting service and i will share you the progress going forward.

Okay, lets see How to create Dreamhost Promo Code ?

• First of all, you have to create an affiliate account with Dreamhost. Its free to create from the Rewards Link Homepage.

Sign Up For Dreamhost

• Once your account is created, Login to Dreamhost Web Panel and click the “Rewards” link from the sidebar.From the rewards link, you could get your affiliate link as well you could create promo code. The Dreamhost affiliate link looks like below:

http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?1052165

Select Rewards

• Lets create Promo codes now. Scroll down to the end of web panel, you could check the monthly affiliate summaries here and also, you will see a link “Create Your Own Promo Codes”. Click on it and select “Create A New DreamHost Promo Code”.
• Fill a valid Promo Code of your choice and its description.
• Don’t select any option like Private IP (these are promo codes specific to a product), so leave it blank.
• In the bottom you will see the maximum discount allowed for each product. You could fill at least 50% of that or even more. The more discount you give, you will get lesser commission i believe.
• In this example, i have selected ~50% discount for each product (like 30$, 50$, 50$).

Dreamhost Create Promo Code

Note: Looks Dreamhost is giving the maximum discount of 97$ only to specific countries like US, Canada etc. So beware, if you are giving the full discount to your promo code.

• Final step: You could start promoting your affiliate link which looks like below: (you have to append the promo code to your affiliate link in the end)

Original Affiliate Link: http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?1052165
Promo Coded Affiliate Link : http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?1052165|VENCODE

That’s It, done. Send traffic to your affiliate link and you will be making money for each sale you drive. The following are the simple ways to promote you dream host affiliate program free:

• Write a blog post about web hosting or Dreamhost and add your affiliate link and banners.
• Simply, tell the readers of a Forum that you have a promo code. Many will buy using your promo code.
• Host a new blog from blogger.com about web hosting and share your promo code every day from different Affiliate Programs (its one of the profitable method).

Its very simple to create a Dreamhost promo code, the toughest part is bringing people to use your promo code. Definitely, you could make a decent money if you seriously promote Dreamhost affiliate program.

• Recently, i created a Promo Code as VENCODE, you could use this code if you are buying a web hosting to get discounts from Dreamhost.

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Designing Your Site.

Now-a-days, its really simple to design a professional looking web site especially if you are using WordPress. Just follow the below steps, it won’t take more than 10-20 minutes.

• Search for professionally looking themes from Themes2wp or WordPress Themes. These two are the best places to download a theme/design of your choice quickly.
• Login to your dashboard, select Appearance -> Themes from the side bar of your wordpress dashboard. Upload the theme and click “Activate“.

That’s all, your site design is done !

Lets Build !

Once your site design is ready, you have to enchance your site using WordPress Plugins. Plugins are addons which actually helps you to turn your blog with more features.

Install the below plugins first, will discuss more about plugins later.

• All in one SEO which optimizes your site for search engines.
• XML Sitemap which pings search engines with a “sitemap” whenever there is a content change in your site.
• Yet Another Related Post a plugin which shows related articles on the bottom of each post.
• Sharing is Sexy to integrate social bookmarking/networking features to your site.

Branding Your Online Business.

Building a brand is one of the toughest part of online business. Being professional, staying unique are the two generally accepted de facto of branding. To make it clear, i recommend you to follow these 3 simple steps for branding.

• Create A Logo – Logo resembles your business and it reminds in the visitors mind. Create a eye catchy logo which attracts the visitor attention. As an example, i have used a branded logo for myself (as Mr.Ven, the black hat man) !
• A slogan - Have a single line slogan for your web site. It should tell the purpose of your site. I use the slogan “Anatomy of Online Business” which quickly stands out from others.
• The third step, Read this article about Steps To Brand Your Blog which has more insights on branding.

Keep in mind that branding makes even smaller websites to look bigger. It actually builds the TRUST on your site when the visitors looks for the first time. So don’t avoid branding !

Building Useful Content.

Once your design/brand is ready, you have to work for content. Yes, you have to turn your site into information rich portal. Internet users are information seekers and they want real useful stuffs. If your blog serves the visitors with such useful information, they will come back again to your site looking for more information .

Its more about, how well you are helping the visitors ? Content Is King, that’s always true with your online business web site. On whatever topic you build your site, you have to publish quality information. It actually gains search engines authority, more content gives more visitors.

To help you, i will give you few tips to build information rich site.

• Always stay on the topic (esp. around the keywords that you listed before) and provide series of articles.
• Write more articles which starts with “How To”, “Ways For”, “Tips for” etc. which gains more readers especially from search engines.
• Your article should solve the visitors problem, give them multiple solutions.
• Schedule to write articles. For example, have a goal to write 1 article per day. This way, going forward your site will have plenty of useful information.

Keep in mind that building your online business site is not simple. It needs hard work, dedication and consistency in publishing useful articles (you have to write for the whole life cycle of your online business). Moreover, it takes time to pickup and you have to work with patience. But once grown, the results are huge !

Okay, lets move on the next topic: Money Making From Online Business Site.

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In practical, building a great web site needs more hard work and right marketing approach. Its basically a long term approach which needs considerable amount of Time, Money & Knowledge as investment. So think twice before make a move. Lets see those 4 major disadvantages.

Wow...Building Websites Is Fun ?

Investing More Start up Work.

The toughest part is the start up. You have to plan everything from scratch. Your web sites design, content, categories, standouts, banners, logos, products and much more. The list grows bigger and if you want to make a successful site then you have to pay attention to everything. Either you start a web site for hobby or as a business, you have to plan well. And interestingly, you have to bring your brand new site in front of the audience. You have to show the world that your site is up and running.

Uniqueness & building a brand plays a major role here because you should not become 1000+1th usual web site. You should stand out from competition in order to give a great start up towards success.

Are you ready to invest that much amount of work ?

SEO Is Long Term Approach.

Search engines are playing the major role in driving traffic to your website. Even my blog gains 80% of its traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo etc. Because of the reason, search engines are stupid you have to optimize your web site for search engines. Thats SEO. Its a long term approach and you could not see the results quicker. It takes days, week, months and years to become search engine’s closer friend. You have to market your site for search engines especially with on-page optimization and in gaining quality incoming links.

Are you ready to wait for months/years to see SEO results ?

Hard To Build Visitor Community.

Yet another toughest part is building a community around your web site. Satisfied visitors are the one who stays with your web site. So you have to work towards satisfying the visitors need and thats the base for building a visitor community around your web site. In practical, you have to gain more number of targeted followers on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, E-mail subscriptions and other social media/web 2.0 tools. Do you think this happens in a day or month ?

Are you ready to wait and see that community around your site ?

Monetizing Efforts.

So you are dieing hard to drive traffic to your new web site. And you have to convert that traffic into money. Its a foolish way, if you try to make money without traffic. Many webmasters are monetizing their site from the day one. I don’t have a believe in that rule. Keep money aside and work for driving great traffic, thats my rule. Also, you may not be able to earn money from the day one and especially on the start up duration. This hardly depends on the type of web site you operate either a information blog or a service based web site. Service based websites may earn you money from the day one but information blogs are in opposite. You have to work for content, then traffic comes and then money rolls in. Its a Long term online business model.

Now again, are you ready to work and wait for this much time to build a web site ?

Why don’t you buy an established web site ? Thats a great alternative, if you are looking to build a web site from scratch. I have identified the Advantages of buying a website than building a website from scratch. Think twice before you take a good decision.

Good Luck !

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