Critical Points To Consider About a Money Making Website Continued... Do Research and Analyze the Competition Now you need to see if there is a market in the categories you have chosen as your interest areas . You want to find out how competitive these market areas are. You may not want to enter a market that is extremely competitive. For this purpose, I use a great tool called Wordtracker. You can use the trial version for free and a full version with many extra features is also available. Use Wordtracker as a brainstorming tool.  Get you interest list from the first step and type these into Wordtracker  Wordtracker searches and returns realted keywords. You can collect all theese into your"basket." Fill your basket with as many as 1000 keyword phrases  In this phase you should keep an open mind so put a lot of keywords into your basket. Wordtracker will do a "competitive analysis" on your key words.  You can then see how many searches are done per day from a variety of search engines (full version only) for the key words you picked. You can also do a search on Google for "keyword tools."  Another good place to go is Keywordspy.com. This will give you a wide choice of these tools to research and analyze the competition. You should not neglect this step.  Spend sufficient time in this planning phase repeating it as many times as you need to until you have a good set of related keywords. Keyword spy along with the Google and Alexa Toolbars are tools you can use to complete your analysis of competing websites. Pick Out a Product  You should now decide on a product or  collection of products. You should try to find out what expressly your  potential customers are looking for.  Google Groups  is a  superb place to do  this kind of investagation. Another method is to join some affiliate programs.  Affiliate programs are normally free to join .  You can do a search for "Affiliate programs" on Google. Another approach is to sll your own product.  In the beginning you can buy resell rights to e-books and software created by other people.  Later you can move into creating your own products. The more research you do in the product area the better you chances of sucess early. Choose and Resister a Domain Name The next task is to pick and register a domain name.  I t is very important that you try to get a domain name that has some or all of your keywords in it. If you can't get the keywords you want in your domain name, get a short easy to rember name for your domain name. There are many websites selling domain names and all you need to do is search on Google for domain name registration. Domain names are $10 to $15 per year. Pick Out a Web Hosting Company  There is a plethora hosting companies available.This is the location of your virtual real estate. Advice to the wise - Absolutely DO NOT select one of the "free" hosting sites. Not only will your website look nonprofessional with most of them putting ads all over your website, these sites are unreliable. many marketers have frequently found out too late that their site is frequently "down" or unabailable. You want your website to be available 24/7. Anytime someone can't gert to your website you are losing money.  Try  HostGator  they are a good solid company.  They have a guarantee to you that your site will be up at least 99% of the time. Their hosting fees are very affordable - as low as $6.99 a month.       Build Your Website   Now you are finally ready to start building your money making website.You will be smart if you don't do like some who skip the research stage and jump straight into the site building part.  Not spending sufficient time on the research step will reduce your chances of achieving the success you desire.                                                                                                                                                                                   There are two ways to go abouit this part. Do it yourself, or find a web designer and pay him to do this for you. If you know a little HTML or are willling to learn a basic knowledge of it, you may decide to build your website yourself. Nowdays there are many WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) website building editors. There is now available an exeptionally fine website builder.You can get this editor at MyFreeWebsiteBuilder.com.  There are also web template packages that are ready made and there are may freelance designers available to you.  Do a search on Google for Rent-A-Coder.  This site has a lot of information to help you with this step. By the way this can be a lot of fun.  It is for me. Send Massive Traffic to Your website  This is a must have.  Without traffic you will not succeed even with the right audience selling the best product in the world. You must be able to send traffic to your website and convince those visitors to give up their information to you. A treatsie on Internet marketing is  out of the scope of this article.  Some marketing techniques that you might want to employ are reciprocal linking, writing articles and submitting to article directories, submitting your site to web directories, pay per click (PPC) advertising, classified ads, solo ezine ads, safelist ads, participating in dislcussion forums that allow a signiture, safelist and traffic exchanges.  You also may want to buy a lot of guaranteed visitors to your site. Getting started earning money on the Internet with your own money making website takes time and effort but it will be well worth it to you and a lot of fun too.  Back to www.moneymakingweb-site.com