Starter Webmaster Blueprint.

Starter Webmaster is for beginners who may find blueprint and strategy to built confidently a successful web business. It is easy to get lost with tons of products over the net, but with a step-by-step easy to follow plan with plenty of resources at disposal, chances that everyone willing to work could succeed.

The big picture:

The big picture is publishing a website, driving traffic to it and then monetize.

We are talking of a long lasting business here, and the best way to do it is to build a content rich website. It means finding a niche and find every documentation relevant to it. Articles, resources, rss feeds, software: everything that keep the visitor exploring and returning to the site.

Niche:

A niche is a part of a more general topic or theme. Example car is general, but antique car is a niche. More on niche:

Keyword:

A niche is defined by a keyword or keyword phrase. People use keywords to find what they are looking for. So the search engine. Tools exists to hunt keyword or keyword phrase with high demand and low supply. This is the ideal way to choose a niche. It will bring traffic to the website easily at no cost. See the well known Wordtracker.

Website software:

Now it is time to choose a website building software. Here is a link for a free one. Nvu1. 

Or the one I use and recommend Xsiptepro. This program is aimed toward the business oriented webmaster. Although it is not full fledge like Dreamwaver or Frontpage, it has all the essential feature to easily put and maintain a website in a fast end efficient way. And not the least, the learning curve is really, really easy. Not only that, but the manual is exceptionally well written and give courses on important topics like keyword and search engine optimization. I like it.  Xsitepro:

Another solution is sitesell Sbi. It is not only a website program but a complete service. Should you have only one website to do, this is the best way. Web hosting, site building, traffic optimization, statistic, monetization, complete step by step course on every topic, forum etc, everything is there. And all the time updated with the last tendency of the web evolution. Ken Evoy makes a strong point on over delivering. You must see it:SBI.

See more on what makes a good Website Design software.

Content:

A long term and wise business investment is by building a content rich website. You may know a lot about a topic and write yourself numerous unique articles or and find relevant already written articles on the net. Directories exist and thousands of documents are available. But they are not unique. Soon a list of directories. Content Desk for example has a 150,000 articles bank. Plus it has a charter private service for the serious webmaster.

Web Hosting:

A website data is hosted somewhere on a server so the surfers from all over the world can have access to the site. A server is a computer, it has an hard drive to store data and a fast internet connection to give access to a lot of visitors. It is kept on a secure and safe environment. And it has numerous services to accommodate today's requirements for website publishing. Midphase Hosting is a reference in this domain. But read this article to know more.

Free Traffic:

The first to care about is search engine but it is not easy.

The second is blogging. Every time you write on your blog, it appears on the blog directories you have prealably register to. So thousand of bloggers may see your post and come to your site trough your link.

Third is writing unique articles and submitting to article directories. Webmasters looking for content may bring your article to their website. More and more people may read your article and click on your link back to your site. It is snowballing. 

Monetization:

You should know about affiliate programs. It is a marvelous invention. You don't have to sell anything. Just find an affiliate to do it. You write about the topic you choose and find an appropriate store with affiliate service to link to. Online or offline. If the visitor click the link on your site, you make money.

Google adsense is just that. Write about a topic, register with Google, put the link on the page and Google will automatically put the relevant adds to the content. A visitor click and you make money. Simple as that.

Or find an affiliate store. Put the affiliate link on a page from your site. A visitor click the link which goes to the store site. The visitor buy the item and you make commission.

In any case a tracking system is contain on the affiliate link and tell that the customer is coming from you. A very good site is AssociatePrograms.

So this is the first draft. From here we can dig laterally.

Web hosting:

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