My First Website Part 4 - Update and Expand

Now that you have your first website complete, what now? First you should update often. It is easy for someone who only manages one thing. You should update about 3 times a week. How you update is up to you, and depends on your niche. Some things you can talk about forever, others get exhausted after you have covered the bases. Also, if you are into affiliate marketing, then you could use a lot of link bait and fake reviews. Just login to your affiliate companies site, find a related offer and review it on your site. Throw in the affiliate link, and grab a few bucks. This is basically what John Chow does. He gained 250k hits a month after a year. He pushed his site hard, with good quality posts. Now every post he makes is link bait, or what he had for dinner. He earned trust, and got tons of steady traffic. Now he uses his steady traffic to earn him tons of money. Everyone gobbles up what he says from that trust a recognition or noobs. So write up about 1 fake review a week including an affiliate link, and use the noobs that visit your site.

Expand - Your site is done with the exception of you updating it a few times a week. What do you do now? It is time to expand. You learned the basics, but you more than likely aren’t going to get rich off of one source of income. You could find another hot niche, research some good keywords to rank well for, and start a new site. Just don’t forget about the old one, it could provide a good source of free traffic to your new site. Just don’t let people know that you run both sites. Like on your first site, don’t say “Visit my other site …”. Instead, write a review of your new site and act like it is someone elses. You could venture into phpBay. You could create a landing page and push traffic to an offer. Once you know how to create and manage your own website, your options begin to open up.

I suggest trying a combination of everything. I of course run this blog. I also have created landing pages and pushed PPC traffic using facebook, Adwords, and Yahoo Search Marketing. I have created a landing page and pushed free traffic with various free methods like YouTube. Right now I get 100-200 uniques a day from about 30 videos on YouTube. I am earning about $100-$200 a month. No it isn’t huge profit, but it is some extra money to pay bills. I expect to earn about $500+ a month by 6 months from now. Hopefully I can end up working from home making money online, but I set realistic goals first. And build my way up. You can’t start off knowing the ropes right away, you have to jump in head first and learn first hand. Make mistakes and learn from them. Learn methods that work for you, and make it happen. Rinse and Repeat. People that make good money online, balance about 5-10 projects at ones. Usually one or two of them make good money, then the rest are smaller profits. You may have 2 projects earning about $500-$1000 a month each, then the rest may balance around the $100-$300 range.