Making Money Online - To Thine Own Self Be True!
It's important to stick to your principles when you're running a website or blog. If you don't stay true to your own beliefs, it will send out the wrong message to your visitors.
For instance, at BreastfeedingMums at one point a lot of the ads on my site were coming from formula companies. Now I didn't realise just how damaging this was to my reputation until I got a few nasty emails. In fact I wasn't even aware such ads were appearing until I got those nasty emails! Once I knew though I was able to do something about it and as a result I got them blocked. Of course this was damaging to my earnings which decreased but I was happy with that because it was more important to me that my visitors saw I wouldn't be compromised by companies who were promoting the opposite of what I was writing about!
More Tips for Making Money Online
- Choose your niche carefully
- Get the website name right
- Become an expert in your field
- Optimize your website
- Keep it short
- Go easy on the eye
- Keep focused
- Keep motivated
- Navigation, Navigation, Navigation
- Don't ask for opinions unless you can handle criticism!
- Get interactive
- Provide useful tools or stickies!
- Start a blog, forum or both
- Offer a means of contact
- Don't overwhelm your visitors with advertising
- Advertise your site
- Provide products unique to your site
- Advertisements - Right or Wrong!
- Don't expect to get rich quick!
- Content is King