How to Profit by Creating an Online News Portal

Mika

VIP Contributor
News is one of the highly consumed contents on the internet. News websites receive a lot of traffic because they produce content on current topics and current topics are always trending on search engines and social media.

If you want to cash on this, here’s how to do it.

  1. Register a domain and buy hosting
  2. Install WordPress on your servers
  3. Choose a newspaper theme.
  4. Create categories and use your categories as the header menu. Show all category posts on the home page.
  5. Publish news. You can just rewrite news published elsewhere.
  6. Update your website multiple times a day
  7. Build Facebook and Twitter page for your news website and start promoting your post.
  8. You can run AdSense on your site.

If you manage to build a large following on the Facebook page, you will be approved for monetization and you can earn from Facebook ads.
 

Jasmine

VIP Contributor
Creating a news website can be as simple s setting up a personal blog, but producing content is not very simple. You need a lot of writers producing new content very hour. You need to be quick in featuring new developments. Generating traffic is also not easy as this is competitive niche.
 

Chibson

VIP Contributor
There is no doubt about this because I've actually created a free website specifically for news but I was not able to monetize it because I was not consistent enough. If you have experience in blogging then you can actually make money from this because it is simpler in the sense that you can sorce out news from many social media platforms.
 

btaliat

VIP Contributor
Thanks for this. Ruining a news website is very lucrative. There are many people who just want to feed their eyes with some news. But we need to becareful to choose the right news that people really want to read. As for me I will always want to create website on maybe entertainment news.
 

kayode10

VIP Contributor
Making money with news portal can be very profitable. you just have to strive hard to break the new first before any other reputable online news do the same. This will help to generate some traffic and here on the social media when you are consistent with the results. Most of the new usually have about high cost per multiple impression.
 

Jasmine

VIP Contributor
People are interested in current events, current events are always trending on search engines. News portals are the platform for current events, therefore, chances of getting huge traffic for news portal is very high. However, this is also very competitive niche, it is very difficult to get ranked high on search engines.
 
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Deleted member 28127

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A news portal is also available for most CMS providers like WordPress or Joomla or Drupal but also for Xenforo scripts for forum creation. I have heard that Wix website is also providing such kind of service because you can merge between a website and a blog or even create a blog with Overblog so strategies vary. Just Namecheap is only limited to Easy WP Plugin Starter while detailing all CMS setup user guides but another hoster provides the other CMS like Verpex.
 

Jasmine

VIP Contributor
If you do not have technical skills related to website creation, don't bother with Joomla or Drupal. Use wordpress and find a goo newspaper theme, add plugin to customize your website. Xenforo is mainly for discussion board and it might not be good for news website. Wix might be good but it is very expensive
 
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