How to Create a Website and Sell it for $1000
Select the perfect topic:
You have to chose the perfect topic for your website.
- Expert knowledge and first-hand experience in it.
- Sufficient traffic and interest in the topic on the web.
- There was money to made from related products and services.
If you want to creating a six-figure
website, you’ll need to meet all three of these requirements.
How
can you find the perfect topic?
It is not enough to choose a topic in which you are an expert. You
need to find the intersection between:
- your expertise
- sufficient traffic volumes and interest on the web
- profit potential.
Publish a high volume of content
I sold my website for six
figures because I published a large number of articles. This is how I
attracted large volumes of search engine traffic.
My success
stemmed from a mountain of content. Over the life of my website, I
averaged three new articles per day, resulting in over a thousand new
articles each year.
My website sold for six figures because it had
a lot of quality content on it.
One of the most important things
to implement is a daily quota for publishing new articles. Build a big
website. Publish regularly. Writing multiple articles per day will
result in the fastest growth. Volume matters. Ninety percent of my
effort went into content creation.
Create premium content to attract organic links
One action I took was to create premium
content. What is “premium content?” It is content that beats the
competition on the web.
Search for you topic online, and glance
through the top sites. Analyze the quality, depth, and usefulness of
this content. Your goal is to write and publish content that exceeds the
quality of what’s already out there. Create a better resource that is
useful to your audience.
These are the actions I took to
accomplish this with my website:
- I designed custom infographics (even though I did not know exactly what I was doing!).
- I published several free ebooks.
- I helped anyone with personal questions via email for free.
- I created videos to give the audience a choice of content formats.
- I created a discussion forum where people could ask questions, get advice, or seek feedback from each other.
Few of my competitors were
implementing these tactics, and many of these strategies generated
organic links and word-of-mouth exposure for me.
Pitch premium quality guest posts
My website sold for six figures because it
had enough authority to rank for many keywords. The site was pulling in
over eighty thousand unique visits per month because it had a
combination of lots of articles and enough authority to rank well. That
authority was created through a handful of guest posts.
I want to highlight a
couple of points that many people may not realize.
Firstly,
because guest posting can be difficult, many people will turn to chasing
easy, manufactured links. Don’t do this! While some links are very
easy to get, they won’t be as powerful as a real guest post. Recognize
that quality links are difficult to achieve but are well worth the added
effort.
Secondly, with most topics on the web, you only need a
few guest posts to create powerful authority. Do not be
discouraged. Just start with a single guest post. Give things time. If
you are not getting the results you want, add another guest post. This
is part of a long-term strategy: give new links time to produce results.
Cultivate a community of fans
I created a fan base in a simple two-step
process on my website:
- I engaged my readers by opening discussions with them about my articles, encouraging them to leave comments, and having conversations with them.
- I gave them a platform in which a community formed and took hold. For my site, this meant adding a discussion forum.
This approach was so
successful that some of the fans spread the new forum via word of mouth,
bringing in friends and growing the community naturally.
Thus,
the action of cultivating fans must begin by engaging your readers.
Start a discussion, have conversations, and build from that.
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