Generally, the first step to start making money online is have a virtual shop; a virtual shop is simply the website where you display your business for customers to see your product or services, just as every business tycoon has an office in one market place or the other where he attends to his customers, discusses, negotiates price and finally carry out business transaction or lender any other service, so should anyone that plans to earn money online has a virtual shop in the virtual market place which is a website on the internet.
Getting a website is as simple as getting a personal business stand in the real market, before you start thinking of going to any market to hire or buy a shop you should have a specific business in mind, the business in your mind might be the key or one of the key factors in choosing a location to launch your business, so once you are certain about the business you want to establish you move on to hiring or buying a shop in the appropriate market, now in the virtual market place (the internet) you talk of getting a virtual shop (website) in the place of a real shop in the real market. So consider what service you can render or business to do with the website but remember to do what is in line with Google adsense program policies. You can see varieties of businesses to choose from and learn in details how you can run it successfully at businessbolster.com
What are the things you need to own a website?
(1) domain name: domain name (a website address) is the name you choose for your website with which visitor locate your virtual shop (website) it is this name that visitors will type in the browser's address bar to find your site, in the real market it is simply the shop address
(2) hosting service: when you want to own a shop in the real world the shop would not be built in the air there is a land where you build your shop so it is with having a website, web hosting service for a domain name the land upon which business house is built, they store your domain in their machine
To get a paid website, you can perform Google search on the best web hosting companies, a result of not less than 100,000 answers will appear, browse through the sites to see what services they offer and choose anyone that satisfy you, in choosing one you may need to consider: The hosting price, disk space, bandwidth, built in softwares such as online forms for your visitors to drop their emails and names and some other innovative features, most time the best hosting companies come with these services and still register the domain for free, justhost.com, blueshost.com, hostmonster.com, godaddy.com are among the best known hosting companies that provide quality service,
After you got your domain and the hosting you need to design the site designing includes writing the site content and making the site comprehensible to browse for your visitors, some hosting companies still provide built in template you can use if you are not conversant with scripting languages, in that case all you need to do is simply use your keyboard to write your content and edit few setting that are editable to suit your test, once you are done with the design before you publish you need to preview the site to see what it looks like, you may have to check the appearance in different browsers to know how it would appear when people with different browsers load the site, so you have to use the most widely used browsers to load it, use internet explorer, mozila fireforce, bolt, operamini etc. if you are satisfied with what you have you can go ahead and publish the site.
To use a free site then you don't have to go through the hassles of searching the entire web for domain registrars and hosting service providers, there are many sites that offer free website ownership or partnership to starters for their little business such as blogger.com, youtube.com, hubpages.com, wordpress.com, yolasite.com and many more, but, most of these sites will run adverts on the sites and you will not have a custom domain, you might be allowed only limited bandwidth but, it is not bad since you are only starting, it is even good to start with such sites so that when your business might have grown to the extent that it requires a dedicated hosting service and a custom domain you would have learnt a lot of how to manage your site.
Blogger.com and Youtube.com - google.com has it all, they have provided opportunity in case anyone has any problem getting a website blogger and youtube are there to be used for the two web content required of you to participate in adsense article/s and video respectively so that you can write your articles and also upload videos
All you need is just visit blogger.com, the Google's properties, launch the site and sign up for a blogsite, you need a gmail (google mail) account before you can register, to get a gmail account you simply visit gmial.com and sign up an account or you can proceed directly through blogger.com you still have a link to open a gmial account through there if you never had one before, but if you already had an account with gmail just provide your gmail email address where it is required and proceed with the registration, you will be guided through on every stages of the registration its not difficult at all, fill in your details as would be required, choose a domain name that best describe the service you plan to render online or business you need to advertise, but remember your uniform resource locator (URL) will be preceded by a sub-domain "blogspot", For example; you would be selling computers and choose computworld as your domain, instead of having a url as computworld.com you have it as "computworld.blogspot.com".
Once you get your blog you can start immediately to write your content, free features to use are many, you can upload images, videos, edit hyper text mark-up languages (HTML), once you are done with the writing, up loadings and editing, you need to preview your blogsite to see what it looks like, if didn't do any code editing there wouldn't be any need to fear weather it would appear well or not because definitely it must appear normal. The next thing you publish to the web, immediately its published you can then type your url in any browser's address bar to view your site and that is how every other person locates your site and this is when you are ready to unlock opportunities of making decent money online
