6 Steps To Help You Create a Website



1. Keyword research and how to choose good keywords

tips.gifKeyword research is the most neglected step in website creation. A website can be perfected in everyway but is never useful if cannot be found in the search engines. If you are in the web design business, you want your website to be in the first page in all major search engines (namely Google, Yahoo and MSN). The sentence that you expect people to type into the search box to look for your website is your keyword.

2. Buy a domain name and a hosting package.

A Domain name is the unique name of a website. There are many registrars around and to register a new domain name can cost a lot and reach to the range from 4 to 30 USD per year. Domain Name Registration and Web Hosting is a different thing. A domain name service provider stores your domain name and points it to the web host which stores all your web pages.

3. Create your web pages.

Creating a webpage can be hard or easy. If you want the codes in your web page to be clean and optimized for search engines, you need to have to hand-code HTML. If you are not bothered with the codes and you may to create a webpage quickly, you can use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). The latest method, can help you to create a web page easily, produces a lot of junk codes which may result in unpredictable results in different browsers.

4. Upload your website.

The host must store all your web pages in order for them to be viewed online by others. To upload all your web pages from your computer to the server. A common way to do that is via FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

5. Optimize your site for search engines.

A guide has prompted us to continue with the next most important topic of creating an effective website, SEO - Search Engine Optimization it is also used interchangeably with Search Engine Optimizer. In short, seo is the process of improving your website ranking in search engines so that people can find your site more easily.

6. Monitor your website traffic.

Find a free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web statistic tool to measure your internet traffic: http://www.statcounter.com


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