Make your Website Work For You!

Create an Architecture for a Content Rich Site

You are going to be writing many, many pages for your website. So the first thing you need do is create a structure for the pages you will be writing. The diagram of a website's architecture looks very much like a family tree. At the top is a single page, the home page. Linked directly from the home page are the second level pages. These are typically the principal categories of the website. Beneath each of these main category pages are the third-level pages.

Ask yourself how many second and third level pages should there be? There are no rules, but you might want to start out aiming for the home page, ten second level pages and ten third level pages for each of the second level pages. That gives you 111 pages in total. And that's about right, because 100 pages is pretty much the minimum number of pages for a content-based website that makes a good passive income.

If that sounds like a lot, don't worry. You don't have to write them all at once. Just work out a structure that makes it easy for your readers to find all the information they want.

Write Useful, Informative Content

Once you have a clean, well organized structure for your site and you know which phrases to use to best optimize each page, it is time to start writing for your readers. While search engine optimization is essential when you want a ton of traffic, your site will ultimately thrive or fail depending on the quality of your content. Make sure that every page is useful and informative. Write in a way that addresses people's interests and concerns and answers their most frequent questions.