The Best Way to Create a Freelancer or Job Bidding Website

Introduction

This article will show and fully guide you through the process of setting up your own freelancer or bidding website. The main idea behind a freelancer website is this: the service buyers will post up projects within a certain budget, and other users called service providers will bid with different prices (maybe price per hour). At the project time expiration, the service buyer will choose a winner for the project, and the job will start.

Choosing your domain name

The first to do when setting up this kind of website and any kind of website, in fact, is to get yourself a domain name, and a hosting for your site. The domain name must reflect the site's nice. If for example your website is focused on IT and programming, the name should reflect keywords like: programming, web development and such.

Getting hosting

After choosing your domain name, you must choose your hosting. For start you should go with the cheapest hosting you can find. As a recommendation for your choices see the list below:

• Shared Hosting (godaddy, bluehost, 5$-15$ / month)


• VPS Hosting (myhosting.com, iweb, and others 30$-100$/month)


• Dedicated Server (from 100$ to 1000$ a month)

Project bidding and freelancer software

The next step is to choose your actual freelancer script or software. Recently after trying many classical php freelancer scripts, that are heavy and difficult to configure, we came across a better alternative: WordPress. Yes you heard it well, WordPress is a good alternative, and there are a few WordPress project bidding themes for achieving this goal.

Here are the main and key features of a WordPress bidding theme:

• good for SEO: WordPress websites pickup faster on search engines


• free plugins: offering unlimited free plugins


• community driven: big community available that can do free mods for you


• bidding packages: the project bidding theme offers multiple admin controlled bidding packages


• complete admin system: control everything from your admin area


• project budget: set different budget types for your projects


• private messaging system: users can send private messages to each other


• attach files for download when posting a project


• social logins: Facebook and twitter login options


• multiple payment gateways: PayPal, PayPal adaptive, parallel payments and chained payments, moneybookers, payza, credit cards


• virtual credits system: virtual currency on each users account

Monetizing and making money online

The important thing when having an online business is to make money online. There are several ways of monetization, like listing fees, listing for featured projects, or taking a percent from each completed project. Similar websites are making millions of dollars yearly and you can do so. For different niches, similar websites are: freelancer, elance, odesk, taskrabbit and others.