How to Create Your Own Profitable Dating Website

1. Come up with a concept for your dating website. The concept not only includes the look of the site, but how it will differ from the competition. To help your dating site compete with other dating sites, you might consider building your dating website around a niche. For example, a dating website for Atheists or NASCAR enthusiasts.
2. Design your website. If you lack web design skills you may enter a search for dating website templates and come across many sites that have pre-designed dating website templates available for sale. In order to successfully design membership pages, you need to incorporate a database that stores your members information. Some templates will incorporate these database configurations. You may need to hire an expert to help customize these templates and upload them to your server for you if you are a novice.

3. Incorporate a payment processor into your dating site. In order for you to charge customers you must have a payment processing script incorporated into your website. There are many payment processing companies that will provide a convenient script that can be incorporated into your website. You can also hire an expert to program your payment processing into your site. Some popular sites to hire programming experts are Elance.com and Guru.com.
4. Purchase your domain name and hosting. There are many web hosting companies that will sell you both hosting services and a domain name. The most popular companies are Yahoo Domains and GoDaddy.com
5. Upload your dating website to your host using a FTP program. Uploading websites that require databases requires more expertise. You can contact your web host for instructions on how to upload your site, or have an expert do it for you.
6. Once your site is uploaded you will want to test it to make sure all aspects are operating correctly.
7. Profitize your website by incorporating ad steams like Google Adsense into your web pages. There are other advertising streams like Doubleclick.com and Chitika.com that can also be incorporated into your site. Once you are approved by these companies, you will have to copy and paste their ad script into your web pages.
8. Fill your website with members. This is the most important step to making your site profitable. First, you should ask your friends and family members to create a profile to help fill up your site. This will also help others feel more comfortable with trying out your site. You can also offer members discounts on membership if they refer other members.
9. Market your website. Offer a free membership. Maybe the membership will be free for the first month, or free until the member wants to connect with another member. It is important to offer specials to attract customers to your site.You also want to create a pay-per-click campaign with Google and/or Yahoo. This will help advertise your website to potential customers. (For more information on setting up pay-per-click campaigns through Google and Yahoo click on the link in Resources.)