Tips to start your own online Adult Dating website

Adult Dating Services - A Lucrative Home Based Business With No Shortage Of Customers
With over 33% percent of Net Surfers being single in one way or another, it would be wise to assume that these people would appreciate intimate human company at some point.

* Start Up Costs
* How Do You Make Money?
* Marketing a Dating Web Site
* Maintenance

I know this to be true because the term dating was searched 4,300,740 times last month at Overture.com. And that is just one search term at one engine.

According to a search engine book, to get an estimate of how many times a search term is searched on Google, just multiply the Overture number by 15. These figures indicate a market with a need that you can fill.

The need to love and be loved is one of the greatest human needs. The need to be loved and feel loved can even become more important than the need for survival. This need manifests itself as a want.

The want for a companion and human contact. This market is probably as old as human history. The need for love is just as important in the human creature today as it was thousands of years ago.

While I was reading some success stories at Secrets To Their Success Website, I discovered a dating website generating $30,000 to $50, 000 per month. According to the article, the site was up and making sales in a day. The owner builds and maintains the website herself and has no staff.

Start Up Costs

Do It All Yourself

If you do the web design yourself, the cost to start a dating website is minimal. Domain Name registration - $15 or less per year. Web hosting for under $10 per month. Your time. These days, good web hosting plans include pre installed Content Management Systems (CMS) which means that minimal web design work is reqiured. Simply click a few buttons and you are ready to start publishing.

The CMS paper and the Do It Yourself Webmaster Guide are two free reports which can be downloaded at this site. They contain much more information about web hosting, CMS, and the do it yourself process.

Pre-Built Dating Web Sites

If you do not want to do the web design yourself, you can start your own dating website with your chioce of 14 professional turnkey designs starting at $995. These sites include a domain name of your chioce, ecommerce software and 400 member profiles. The price does not include web hosting.

How Do You Make Money?
# Create a simple dating website with 10 - 50 articles.
# Join an Online Dating affiliate program and place affiliate links throughout the pages.
# Send traffic to your Online dating web site.
Who Pays You?
It's good to start with just one or two affiliate programs at first. The reason for this is that it is much better to spend time getting visitors to your site than it is to waste time looking for new programs to join.

When the site starts to get a bit of traffic, and you are making a few sales, then join more programs. It is easy to waste time looking around for a hot affiliate program, but the bottom line is without any traffic, who will buy?

You can keep it simple by joining a big dating affiliate program like Cashring. Cashring has over 4 000 000 million members world wide so you have a good chance of matching some people together. Cashring has excellent marketing tools like their link generator which enables you to create links for specific niche groups.

The main benefit of this is that you need not target heavily searched terms with a lot of competition. You can target search terms with less competition. Targeting a specific niche produces better conversion ratios. You get paid a commission every time a free member decides to purchase a premium membership.

Marketing A Dating Website
You will need to acquire skill at getting traffic to your site. As your skill evolves, you will generate more traffic which will produce more commissions. The more targeted the traffic the better your conversion ratios will be.

One of the best sources of free traffic is search engines. Educating yourself about search engine optimization is essential for the do it yourself webmaster. The Affiliate Masters Course is a Free download which provides lots of information about how to get search engine traffic.

Learn to create fast loading pages that tell the search engines what your page is about. Before you go off submitting to thousands of search engines though, you might like to review this previous article.

Marketers also use pay-per-click search engine ads with keywords in the headline. This can be used as a compliment to your other marketing efforts or as a stand alone strategy.

You will need to do your sums with this form of marketing because you don't want the cost of clicks to be more than your affiliate commissions. This is the quickest way I know of to get traffic to a brand new site. I use Google AdWords for all my pay-per-click projects.

Another way to get traffic is to write an eBook that will appeal to your audience and give it away free as a download. Make sure that your free eBook has meaning and value to justify the download. People are not interested in downloading useless junk with nothing to read but ads.

On the download page, let people know that they can distribute the ebook freely. List your ebook with sites like eBook Palace. After a while, there will be thousands of your eBooks in circulation and each ebook will have your links inside.

How To Maintain Your Dating Website
To be more helpful to your visitors, you might like to continue adding new articles to the site. Fresh content about the Online Dating scene, relationships, love, romance, self confidence, Online Dating safety issues and other related topics will encourage visitors to return and tell their friends about it.

Visit other Online Dating websites and see what they do

Maybe you can get some fresh ideas and add new concepts to your website so that it has that unique look and feel. Maybe your visitors would like to subscribe to your Online Dating Tip Of The Week newsletter or download a free ebook about love and relationships.