OK, awesome. You now have your niche, in other words, the direction for your brand & business. That is great and don't worry about this not being "perfectly clear" at this point, as you move forward the pieces of the puzzle are going to come together.

Starting with a big piece today, your website. We are going to be taking our niche idea and turning it into a tangible business starting with your website.

Building a Website Ain't Scary, It's FUN!

Building a website sounds like a "scary" process, but fortunately you have access to the most advanced, yet simplistic website platform in the world here at Wealthy Affiliate. We pride ourselves as a technology company here at Wealthy Affiliate and we are the industry leaders in the website development space.

I am not going to toot our horn any longer, I would rather you experience the website builder and platform for itself. The first step today is going to be building your website, which will literally take you less than 30 seconds.


Click the SiteBuilder link within the menu, and you are going to be ready to rock here (and complete the next task).

Below I have included a "Building Your Website in Under 30 Seconds" video walking you through the Website Platform (also known as SiteRubix) here at WA and showing you how quickly and efficiently you can build a website here at Wealthy Affiliate.

 

Task 1: Build Your Website

Your website is your foundation of your business. It is where all of your traffic is ultimately going to come to, where you are going to build brand and trust within the industry, and where you can promote products/services and generate $$$!

The SiteBuilder platform here at WA is the most simplistic, yet advanced in the industry. It is going to take less than 30 seconds to get a fully operational, profit ready Wordpress website up and running online.

There are 4 SIMPLE steps in the website build process, that I am going to walk you through here. To access the SiteBuilder and EVERYTHING related to your website, you will simply click the light blue "SiteRubix" button in the main menu.

Step 1: Choose the Kind of Website

There are TWO options here, "On a free domain" or "On a domain I own".

If you are just starting out as a Starter member, you will be building a website on the .siterubix.com domain, which is a completely free website. You can build and host your own FREE website as a Starter and you can use that to get rolling with your niche website.

When you are ready to take things to the next level, you will want to consider getting your own domain name. Having your own .com domain will lead to quicker rankings in search engines (like Google) and will also be the start of your successful, high value brand. You can get your very own domain for FREE within the Premium memberships, so, so something to consider when you are ready.

For the sake of this training, we are going to be choosing "On a free domain".

Do know that within the Premium memberships, you can easily MOVE a free .siterubix.com button to a registered domain (one you own) using the "Premium Only" MOVE feature.

So by all means start off with a free website and then down the road you can easily move it to your own domain. Easy peasy.

Step 2: Choose a Domain

Remember last lesson when I chose my "niche". In this step, I am going to be choosing a name for my website and placing it in the "domain name" field. This is because this will be my website URL and my brand moving forward.

As you can see below, I have added my brand "Calorie Method" into the domain field. I am building a website to help people with calorie counting (and ultimately losing weight).

The first step is choosing the domain name, which is your niche name.



When you type in your domain, it will let you know if it is available or not. In my case it was, but if your first choice is not available simply do another search until you find a domain name that works for you.

You cannot put spaces in your domain name, hence why my domain is "caloriemethod".

***As I mentioned in the last section, ideally I want to OWN my own .com domain asset, and I will be getting my own domain in the next level. ;)

Step 3: Choose a Website Name

The name of your website should match your domain, but it just needs to be grammatically correct (with proper spacing). You can see below my example of this:

Domain: caloriemethod.siterubix.com

Title: Calorie Method

It is as simple as that. Don't overthink this step, your title will be the same as your domain.

Step 4: Choose a Design

The last step is choosing a "look" for your theme. As a Starter member you will have access to ONE theme that has been hand-picked for quality, speed, security, and overall theme design.

When you do upgrade, you will have access to over 4,134 designs (as shown below). There are always new designs being added to this daily. These are referred to as "Themes".

The theme will be selected for you if you are Starter (GeneratePress), but if you have already upgraded you will be able to choose any theme that you want.



After your choose your theme, head to the "Ready to build" section and simply click "Build My Website".


And presto, you are doing and you are now up and running with your website!

SiteRubix, a Next Level Website and Hosting Platform.

You are going to notice that there are many other website features allocated within the SiteRubix menu. I don't want to eat up too much of your time here, but it is important that you understand the incredible benefits of the SiteRubix platform.

The powerful hosting you have access you here is unparalleled in the Managed Wordpress hosting industry. We truly specialize here in providing a secure, robust and FAST platform for you to run your website.

We know that your website IS your business, and it is important that you have the most advanced technology to keep your business operating at 100% at all times of the day.

The following are just some of the powerful features included within the SiteRubix platform here at WA.

  • SiteManager (Starter, Premium & Premium Plus+)
  • SiteBuilder (Starter, Premium & Premium Plus+)

To make your sites secure and fast, we have some SiteRubix EXCLUSIVE technologies to make sure your websites are operating at lightening speeds, but also in a very secure way that protects you from hackers, spammers, and all forms of erroneous attacks.

As a Premium Plus+ member, you can build and host up to 10 websites (including websites on your own domains). That is what our top members here at Wealthy Affiliate are using to drive many 6-figure and 7-figure businesses. Our hosting platform is industry leading in terms of speed, security, reliability and support...all critical factors to running a successful online business. You get TWO FREE domains when you upgrade to Premium Plus+!

As a Premium member, you can build and host up to 3 websites (including websites on your own domains). Also, when you upgrade to become a Premium member you ONE FREE domain!

Just food for thought!

Anyways, you are up and running with your niche website (and business) now, and it is online for the world to see... which is freaking awesome! Give yourself a big pat on the back!

As we move forward within the training in the next level we are going to be building out your website content, and working to get quickly indexed and ranked in Google, Bing & Yahoo. This will lead to traffic, and significant revenue opportuinty!

Have questions about this lesson? Leave them below in the comments area and we will be more than happy to help you out. :)

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Mikedineen7 Premium
Hello everyone. I'm looking for your opinion on a tag line I'm trying to create. I have an affiliate link to a Crypto website called "Copy My Crypto" which offers members the opportunity to buy coins that an expert has identified as a wise investment and have the following tag lines to consider. Do you have a preference or any you REALLY don't like?
1. "Copy the Pros, Copy My Crypto."
2. "Imitation is the sincerest form of investing"
3. "Copy smarter, not harder"
4. "Don’t try to be a crypto genius, just copy one".
5. "Copy My Crypto, Copy My Success"
6. "Copy the Pros, Invest with Confidence"
7. "Investing Made Simple"

Thank you team!
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Kyle Premium Plus
@Mikedineen7
Don't base your niche around a product, rather an audience. Sure you can promote that particular product as you build out your website, but first WHO do you want to help within the broader crypto space.
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swallerlei
@Mikedineen7
"Investing Made Simple " speaks more to me. Hope it helps.
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Mikedineen7 Premium
@swallerlei
Thank you for your reply @swalleriei
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Mikedineen7 Premium
@Kyle
I see what you mean @kyle
I want to help anyone who's interested in investing in Crypto but has no idea where to start/ feels overwhelemed and is looking for someone to essentially hold their hand. That's what the primary focus is. Then secondary I want to offer them tools to facilitate the primary purpose. So in my case they join the website ($$) then they need a ledger to keep their crypto safe ($$). And I'm sure there are other services/ producst I can add to the list.
Am I on the right track?
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owaisted
i have started a website, chosen a niche, did the keyword research and then gotten frozen. I could not even write on topics i had written before. then i forced myself to write and started publishing. as it stands, my posts are not indexed and i am taking it one step at a time. also i wanted to start building a community, but no activity on that side
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LastGenDig Premium
@owaisted
Not sure if it's helpful but for writing assistance or ideas it may help if you use a platform like ChatGPT. It's really amazing what AI can do. I use writesonic to write entire YouTube scripts for video.
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owaisted
@LastGenDig
i meant to say, i get overwhelmed and don't write. this has become a problem for me and in need to overcome it
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Sjoy223 Premium
I have created two websites by mistake. I had so much trouble creating the first one. I. created content, i thought and saved the draft & it disappeared, so I .stopped & rewatched the Video on how to create your Website. this one went through & now I have two. What do I do now??
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TheAbie Premium Plus
@Sjoy223
Like in the live chat, to delete a siterubix subdomain | or dot com if applicable, click details on the subdomain in question in site manager, move onward next page, scroll all the way to the bottom, and click delete.

As we established, you only need one.

i am glad you got it figured out :)
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RitaAnn Premium
@Sjoy223
Hello Sjoy223, it's not always a mistake if you do something wrong with your name.
I'm sending you a link in your Message box

RitaAnn~
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SLarocque
Regarding this "Do know that within the Premium memberships, you can easily MOVE a free siteruberix button to a registered domain (one you own) using the "Premium Only" MOVE feature."

... is there a risk as a Starter Member, that I will choose a free domain that may then be "taken" - because now someone else liked it and stole it - before I could own it?
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Daverh Premium Plus
@SLarocque
Yes indeed SLarocque. Siterubix is no different than .net or .org. If you had bittybabybuggybumpers.net, someone could buy bittybabybuggybumpers.com right out from under you.

Hope this helps.

Dave
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Kyle Premium Plus
@SLarocque
No, there is no risk. There will be alternatives, and your domain is your brand so you never have to worry about keywords/etc in your domain name. As you can choose something that is completely brandable (while relevant).

This won't be an issue at all Stacey. :)
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