Hubpages, the Next Step, Building a Niche Wordpress Website, Some Tips on Building A Website From Scratch

If you have never tried building a wordpress website, how to build a Wordpress website sounds pretty scary! My first six months on HubPages has flown by and I have been learning from other Hubbers and slowly building my Adsense and Amazon earnings. Hubpages is an absolutely fantastic way to get started earning online and what you learn about researching keywords for your Hubpages topics, laying out your Hubs and promoting them once you have written them are all excellent grounding for the next step – building a Website from scratch and using everything you have learned on Hubpages to create a niche website for yourself and earn money from Affiliate programs, Adsense, Amazon or a combination of any or all!

This sounded really scary to me at first, but I am really glad I took the plunge and found it was not too difficult at all to build a website from scratch. I have used Wordpress for the sites I have set up, using only free themes (a ‘theme’ is what each style of Wordpress site is called, some are premium, some are free).

Now, I now have an article directory and of the few niche websites I have set up, two which are doing nicely and one which last month (October 2010) earned me half of what I earned from ALL my hubs put together and so far this month has earned me two thirds of the amount I have earned in total from ALL my hubpages – so it is well worth doing.

The domain name is the 'address' of your website and the advice I have read is to try to create a domain name that is as close to a perfect match for your main keyword phrase as you can get (in exactly the same way as you choose a title for your hubpages articles to reflect the main keyword you have researched for your hub).

So, if I had researched a keyword ‘Blue Furry Widgets’ and decided that this was the keyword phrase that had good traffic, low competition and good Adsense cpc (the cost per click on a Google Adsense advert for that keyword phrase) and I could find a few other keywords related to ‘Blue Furry Widgets’ for the main keyword on the other pages of my website (for example, Blue Furry Widgets Gifts for Men, Cheap Blue Furry Widgets, Celebrity Blue Furry Widgets – you get the idea) as well as having some excellent affiliate products and/or amazon products that I could also monetize the site with, I would head on over to www.prouddomains.com or www.godaddy.com and see whether www.bluefurrywidgets.com was available.

If not, I would see whether .net or .org was available or a domain name using bluefurrywidgets with hyphens between each word or perhaps bluefurrywidgetsreview or bluefurrywidgetsshop – anyway, you get the idea!

It is really easy to purchase a domain name and that is the first hurdle!

I use Hostgator and this is really easy to use and understand (and cheap as with the hosting package I have, it only costs $9.95 per month to have unlimited websites as you register your first domain with them and then when you want to set up a second one, you add it to the same account as an add-on website. This makes it really cheap to have as many websites as you like – but don’t get too carried away, remember, you have to promote them too.

I would love to hear about anything you would like to learn with regard to making money online. Is there something you have found hard, like keyword research, setting up a website, etc. Is there something that you have not been able to find out how to do with regard to your Hubpages articles or WebPages?

HubPages learning center is an amazing resource that will help you to improve your hubs. You can also check out answers in the forums or ask a question yourself in the 'need help' section where experienced hubbers are always ready to answer your questions with advice that will set you on the right track.