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Content, traffic, presell, monetize

Saturday, May 9, 2009 posted by 7:04 pm

CONTENT arrow TRAFFIC arrow PRESELL arrow MONETIZE

This is the basic Site Build it! mantra. I thought that I understood the whole process and what it really means but then about once or twice a year I go back through the SBI! Action Guide and the meaning of it becomes even more profound each time.

You will see this so much all throughout the SBI! process. You will get sick of hearing about it and think that you know what it means. You will think that you are doing it. It seems easy enough…

Build high quality content for search engines and your readers.

Get Traffic by following the process of creating content, optimized pages and getting backlinks to your website

Pre-sell – I always hate this word pre-sell. Pre-sell is just about building trust with your readers. It is just providing information in a way that makes your reader say – “Wow, I want that!” or “If this person can do it so can I”. The word sell always conjures up a picture of ‘yuk – I don’t want to sell, I don’t know how to sell, I hate selling… It is just about sharing what you know about something. Your passion will shine through.

Monetize- Yes! the making money part!  Following the previous steps it is almost inevitable that the money will follow like the old saying ” Do what you love and the money will follow”.  The doing what you love also needs to include concrete action steps – one by one which is what SBI! is all about.

You won’t get rich over night or even in a year.  (Maybe in 6 months or a few months you can create an additional stream of income if you work at it full time.)

I am sure there are other ways to be successful online like just using article marketing to promote affiliate products or spending a good chunk of money on programmers who create an really nice looking site and paying to get it found.

What do you think about this idea that you can just make money by following

CONTENT arrow TRAFFIC arrow PRESELL arrow MONETIZE