In order to build a profitable website for yourself you need to have a good plan in place as well as you carrying out lots of preparation first. A lot of people will come up with an idea for a website, they then buy a domain name and start to build the site without actually thinking through what is required. Like these people I use to have hundreds of websites and would never concentrate on one but would instead be moving from one to the next constantly. However now I concentrate on just 20 sites or less and because of this I have seen a dramatic increase in my income from them.

But to ensure that you can create and build websites which are going to be profitable for you there are 6 steps you will need to make. Certainly by sticking to the formula in this article you should soon see a rapid increase in the income these sites can earn for you. However before you actually start building any sites it is important that you get a folder along with some paper into which you will have sections for every site that you want to build. Although you can actually set this up on your PC believe me it is much easier for you as the folder is at hand at all times right beside you as you work.

Step one is the Keyword Research stage. Here you need to think all about the niche and what logical sections you will have. A niche can just about any topic you can think of, you'll also find than many niches will have profitable sub niches which you should also explore. For example Cars would be a good niche but SUV's would be a sub niche and carburretors would be another tight sub niche. The main thing with keyword research is to find a good mixture of keywords some of which have very little competition and others that will challenge your promotional skills.

The second step and certainly one of the most important is planning. A lot of people will actually miss this step out completely but you must not. So take a piece of paper from your folder and start to write down what you want your site to contain. You need to work out just how your site will look and whether you want to have sub directories or just sections within it. Just by making a few notes and keeping these will help you at a later stage as you will be able to refer back to them and see which site models you have used before are the most effective and which ones are not.

Step 3 is when you actually start to build your site. It is during the planning stage (step 2) that you should have decided just what tools you are going to be using in order to build the site. There are plenty of tools now available, some of which are available for free and others which could cost you hundreds of dollars. But if you are just starting out then I would suggest you start off by using WordPress. Not only is it free but you can also easily install it from many different websites by going to their Cpanel.

The biggest thing that any website owner will fall down on when it comes to building a site is promoting it. Often they will only do enough in order for it to be indexed and then as soon as it has become bored and decide to move on and build the next one. STOP! If you really want to see your sites start to earn an income for you then you must continue to promote them. Therefore you should try to spend an hour each day for the next two weeks on promoting your site.

A site will only survive if it receives traffic. The traffic it receives will come from a number of different sources. But in order for the traffic to know about the site you need to promote it properly. The more properly a site is promoted the more chances are that you will start to receive traffic from search engines. This kind of organic search traffic is completely free and is what any good website owner should be striving to achieve.

Monetization is the objective for most webmasters if they want to earn an income from their sites. The trouble is most of them monetizing the sites too early. I'll often leave it 3 months before I monetize a site. There is no point in adding Adsense to your site immediately as it may affect the ranking of your site and without traffic it's not going to earn you money.

If you start to incorporate the these 6 basic steps into your site building routine you soon start to see the benefit. Along with the increased profits you find the confidence to take on bigger and more profitable projects.