Investing In Your Website

If you are serious about making money from your web site, you need to invest time and money. Your time needs to be spent creating content and tracking the results. Its not glamorous or exciting but it is the secret to a successful web site. The secret to a profitable web site is spending your money wisely.

This is what you need to make money from a web site:

Domain Name	$20 a year or less per domain
Professional Blog Account (e.g. Typepad)	$15 per month
Wordtracker	$329 per year

And that is it. If you are tempted to spend money on any other software or services then think twice. In fact, put the idea to one side for a month and then come back to it. The simple truth is that these three expenses are all you will need for your first year. Chances are, its all you will ever need.

This investment of $550 is the difference between running a web site for a hobby and making money with web site content. In the first year, working part-time, you may only breakeven but you are almost guaranteed to earn just as much in your second year even if you do absolutely nothing because of the Long Tail. This means everything you put into your site after that first year will pay you back in pure profit and will keep paying you back, year after year