Building my own website!

invisigirl

steve1980 wrote: »

What a waste of web space. What's the point of it?

Initially last year it was done as experiment for a site to rank for a really niche keyword. However, the character in question has been receiving a lot of press recently and well, it just continues to be an experiment really.

budgetflyer

steve1980 wrote: »

What a waste of web space. What's the point of it?

The point is its automated so you don't have to manually add fresh content. If you have 20 or 30 of these with high value niche keywords you can maybe get say £5 each per day in adsense clicks. Do the maths- it can be a good earner.

Some internet people have 100s of these each just doing a $1 a day.

invisigirl

budgetflyer wrote: »

The point is its automated so you don't have to manually add fresh content. If you have 20 or 30 of these with high value niche keywords you can maybe get say £5 each per day in adsense clicks. Do the maths- it can be a good earner.

Some internet people have 100s of these each just doing a $1 a day.

The keywords which this site has are VERY niche, but they are also highly priced. I'm hoping to check on the results at the end of March and see how it's doing with the new content etc. If it continues to do the same rate as last year with no content, then I'll turn my attention elsewhere, however if I make my money back in the next month I'll leave it to run.

ian_h

billy_31 wrote: »

Is it practical to hire the service of a webpage programmer? If it is impractical, can you suggest the best tutorials that will help me create my own web page?

Have a look at Enterprise Host they have been great on a few sites of mine and have a small team of people who will help you build a site very cost effectively (plus they are UK based).

mj12_2

budgetflyer wrote: »

The point is its automated so you don't have to manually add fresh content. If you have 20 or 30 of these with high value niche keywords you can maybe get say £5 each per day in adsense clicks. Do the maths- it can be a good earner.

Some internet people have 100s of these each just doing a $1 a day.

Google hate sites like that, have a look at their webmaster help forums... affiliate sites with no unique content do well for a short time (maybe) and then die a sudden and complete death. The way to rank well in the long term is with high quality and unique content, thats the only way. There is no automated system to produce it i'm afraid.

PasturesNew

steve1980 wrote: »

What a waste of web space. What's the point of it?

I've got one of those, but I was doing it just to play around with stuff to see how it works.... they are sh1te though - and obviously sh1te. And the Google Panda update was looking for sh1te like that to de-index.

From a technical/learning viewpoint - they're a good learning tool.

PasturesNew

At 5.45 this morning, I randomly looked at my website and saw ... error... error... error.

That site is with eukhost and it was really nice to go to their website, click on "Live Person", type in the problem in under 1 minute, then sit back and have a coffee while they took 30-40 minutes to look into it, fix it, get my site up and running again.

Being able to drink coffee while somebody online sorts things instantly is priceless. Phone support's rubbish as you are tied to the phone (I get twitchy if I can't move around).

If you're investigating any hosting, find out "what happens when it goes t1ts up". Not IF, when. It will. They all do ....

Last year I had one host completely disappear off the face of the earth. Site down, no way to contact them. Took me 2 weeks to get the domain name back and the site rebuilt somewhere else.

Once you've got your site up and running, bringing in an income, you can't afford to let it disappear.

James_saver34

check out eukhost (google them) I've used them from asp hosting and they're pretty good

DodgyMoney

If you're looking for hosting on the cheap end and you're writing a blog, there's a lot to be said for Google's blogger.com. It's free, easy enough to do some basic tweaking and get posting. Plus it's really really easy to add AdSense to your pages.

tomewer

Two options, quite simply:

Wordpress.com - totally free, but your URL will be "http://yoursite.wordpress.com/" - doesn't look very professional, but if you are not worried about that then go for it.

Wordpress.org - very similar to wordpress.com but you can host it on your own URL (i.e. http://www.yoursite.com/"). You will have to pay for the domain (about a tenner) and the hosting (a few quid a month).

If you're going for the second option, head over to http://www.bluehost.com/ for hosting. I think it's $6.95 per month, has one click Wordpress install, and the customer service is really something.

As for Wordpress, if you have not heard about it, it is used by about 10% of all websites on the internet. It is an intuitive Content Management System (CMS) - kind of like Microsoft Word, but for websites.