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| Home > Tips & Advice > Building A Successful Website (Part 1) Tips & AdviceStep-by-step Guide To Building A Successful Website (Part 1)Does your website make you money? My websites does. I've built several successful websites, actually, and this 2-part article shows the steps I take when creating a website. I can't guarantee *your* success, obviously, but the article is based on the checklist I use to create my own websites. (I've been working from it for over two years now, to make sure it works!) So, hopefully, you'll be able to use this step-by-step guide to create YOUR very own successful site. Anyway, let's begin. == Aside == If you can't design websites, then I suggest you
visit The Newbie Club to learn about HTML etc. (or buy a web design book
from Amazon). Or you could visit Site Build It! and let this all in-one
tool do (almost) everything for you (i.e. there's no need for you to have
any techie skills whatsoever). Or you can simply pass this information
onto a web designer of your choice! :-) ==> 1. Do keyword research Lets begin at the beginning. What will the site be about? Ideally, the site should be about something you're interested in, or passionate about. (Then building and maintaining your site won't feel like work, it will feel like fun.) Even better, there should be a strong demand for your site content (or product/service), with little or no competition. Wordtracker - *the* keyword research tool - lets you determine exactly this. Basically, Wordtracker tells you the keywords people type into search engines like Google, that have few (if any) competing websites. You can use the free trial at Wordtracker, but if you're serious I recommend you use the full version of the online tool for (costs less than $10 for a days usage).. Wordtracker ==> 2. Register your domain name Register your domain name, preferably containing your keywords (as determined above). You can register domain names in many places online. The best places to do so, depend on the type of domain name you want to register (e.g. .com or .co.uk or .de etc.). I've used the following registration resources and can recommend them
all:
==> 3. Build useful content Useful content? This could mean informative articles, tips, or product reviews that inform and educate the people who visit your site. And that's where your passion comes in. Because of your passion for the subject matter of your website, you can provide detailed tips and advice, not found anywhere else. Add humour, or reflect your unique personality in the content, and you have a site that people may want to visit. Do make sure that you check content for spelling mistakes and poor grammar. Sloppy spilling (!) etc. always spoils a website. Here are 4 examples of sites that offer useful content. * I recommend you take a look at the last example. Why? Because it's a step-by-step guide to creating a web site! ==> 4. Try and capture your visitor's e-mail address It's important to stay in touch with your site visitors; they may never return to your site, if you don't. The most obvious way to capture e-mail addresses - and hence stay in touch - is to offer a newsletter (e-zine) related to your site. But you can capture email addresses in many other ways - e.g. competitions, e-mail courses, site membership - just be creative. This article explains how to write a newsletter This ebook (not free!) explains how to think creatively when it comes
to email capture And this software lets you send newsletters, e-mail courses, auto responders
- you name it - for one single payment. (There's now a free trial,
too!) ==> 6. Host your website I won't say too much about finding a suitable web-host, other than please avoid free hosting (if you can). A site with the name www.freebiesite.com/my-site-here is just not going to look professional, and it will be very hard to promote on the search engines, too. There are many, many reliable places that you can host your website at little cost. Find one that meets your requirements, but do find one. I *can* recommend all of the following: ~~~ To learn more, just read these two articles about website stats and tracking your visitors: - Analyse Your Website Traffic: - Learn From Your Visitors Using Cookies: ~~~ In part 2, you'll learn about hosting, promoting and automating the site creation process. And you'll read about some extra considerations that help make a website successful. Part 2 continues here... Thank you. Steve M Nash BUILD A SUCCESSFUL WEBSITE ON AUTOMATIC use Site Build It! This unique, all-in-one tool does your keyword research, registers your domain, hosts your website, helps you build site content, includes e-zine and autoresponder, offers site stats, AND even promotes your website... Visit this FREE guide to learn more http://www.site-buildit.com Did You Know?You can have the articles on this website sent to MORE TIPS, ARTICLES & RESOURCES:PS Want to know my top tip for succeeding online?Well, we are all different and have different skills and desires. However, Site Build It! seems to allow people from all walks of life, and all kinds of skills, to succeed. SBI provides tools to build your site and a long-term philosophy that enables you to create content-based websites that both the search engines and your site visitors like. Do you have to be special to succeed? Not really, see how these ordinary guys did it! This is one of the few 'make money online' opportunities I feel it worthwhile to promote. So much so, I created a free guide to Site Build It and even a Squidoo lens on SBI too, to help spread the word. I recommend you learn more... | |||||
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