Website Design

There are a lot of misconceptions going on about how to start making money with a new or even an old site. I’ll pretend like we’re talking about a new site but the idea would be the same if it was an old site. Let’s pretend that we have a quality design, a good product and everything online is 100% ready to go. Now we need the traffic.

Let’s pretend that we are selling car parts and I have all my car parts in stock and ready to go. I have a 68 ford mustang left hand door skin, if I rank this part for the keyword car, then I’ll get people looking for new cars, car pictures, car dealers, used cars and the list goes on and on. That would be a waste of bandwidth, time and energy for me; I will not sell this part to someone looking for a new car or someone that does not even own a Mustang.

A little common sense tells me that I need to sell this to someone who is looking for a 68 Ford Mustang left hand door skin. I notice that I have a red one, blue one and a black one. I’m going to take my blue one and create a page named blue-mustang-door-skin.

On this page I’m going to write up some text about my 68 Ford Mustang Blue Door Skin. I’ll use the words 68 Blue Ford Mustang Door Skin at the start of my article, in the text, at the end of my article, in bold, in header tags, in plural and singular words and I’ll use those words together and separate from each other and in links coming and going from this page and most importantly, I’ll use them in my page title.

I’ll also have pictures of my Blue 68 Ford Mustang Door Skins that are optimized and set up for the search engines. They will rank if someone does a search in images for a 68 Blue Mustang Door Skin and they will rank if someone does a search in the organic engine for 68 Blue Mustang Door Skin because this is a non-competitive search term. I’ll have a call to action that will take my visitor to my shopping cart when he is ready to make the purchase.

On this page I’ll have links on the left hand side that will link to a page called Door Skins, 68 Red Mustang Door Skins, 68 Black Mustang Door Skins and the list will go on and on pointing people to different model and ages of cars that I have door skins for.

I’ll do this for every part and product that I’m selling. Once I finish, I will send out press releases about my new site, about my products and then I’ll write articles about my products and link those back to my products with the proper anchor text. I’ll submit these to article websites; I’ll then find car forums and start posting in those and use my signatures to link back to my product pages. I’ll create a blog and forum on my site to talk about my business and products and link to my products from that blog every chance I get. I’ll write post in my blog that we get others to link back to my blog.

I’ll create small sites like a 68 Ford Mustang website where I’ll give information and have a little forum for people that are interested in 68 Ford Mustangs to post. I’ll use this website to link to my products and help promote my main site. Once it’s going good I’ll create a new forum for 69 Ford Mustang lovers.

I could go on and on, I’ve not even started writing yet, there are so many ways to make money online.

It will take me some time and a lot of work but I will dominate the market that I’m in.

There is a thread over at WPW where a member claimed to be getting thousands of visitors a day with a brand new site in only a couple days with only a couple hours of work.

He also claimed to be getting swamped by all the people wanting to advertise on the site but was unwilling to give a whole lot of information about how he did it or show a site to back up his claims.

The thread went into about 8 pages of people wanting to see proof and got way off topic, I tried to bring it back on topic because I wanted to better understand how he did it but the other members wouldn’t allow it.

So I decided to take my test else where, now one of the moderators wants to say I’m trying to steal the thread.

How sad is it that people feel that if you don’t want to fight and want to test the results others make claims about that you’re the one doing wrong.

Rule number one, never give anyone a break, it always comes back to bite you on the ass. I’ve done many sites for free or for very little money and it always seems those are the people that want the most out of you.

Once you start your obligated at that point, the same as if they were a paying customer because if you don’t get it right, you not only have the wasted time and an upset customer but they can talk bad about you and cost you even more business.

I wrote this in a forum post a while back when someone was talking about everything or most everything having to do with luck. Someone brought it back up today and I thought it was worth a blog post. This is my response to the post and what I think about luck.

I don’t believe in luck, although I do believe that God looks out for us and sometimes allows things to happen, to get us back on track.

But the real problem with luck is the abuse it has taken over the years.

People refer to the poor as the “unlucky” and to the rich as “the lucky”

This way we don’t blame the person that ignores education, has no work ethics and develops poor decision making. He’s just unlucky.

There’s no personal fault involved, they can’t be blamed, its just bad luck.

The rich, their success has nothing to do with attention to education, willingness to work or careful decision making.

They were just lucky.

In this way we can destroy the individual and account everything to luck.

This allows the government to come and take the money from the rich and give to the poor.

After all the rich did not earn the money they were just lucky, so they should have to share their money with the less lucky.

We are in the process of building our last website for another web design company. For the last 3 years we have been building websites for other web design companies from around the world. I’ve decided it’s not worth the time and effort to continue doing.

All the reasons we are stopping.

1. We do the work and get the design perfect so another web design company can show the client and say look what we did for you.

2. I don’t have the time to do other people’s design work.

3. Most web design companies can only send us a couple designs a month, they can’t keep one person busy.

4. The other design company gets to put our design in their portfolio and show it off as something they themselves did.

5. A lot of companies will pick the design apart asking us to make 15 or 20 different design changes, then they will show it to the customer who will ask for another 20 or so changes a lot of which would have been ok if the web design company had shown the client before asking us to make the changes.

We will continue to build website for our customers but will no longer build websites for other design companies.

I’m finished ranting now.