1. -1 How To Make a Website
If you are building a content based site and would like to promote the site to get enough
traffic that end up converting to sales, then you should keep SEO (search engine
optimization) in your planning stage. Make sure you do some keyword research to
determine how your visitors will be finding your site and launch an SEO campaign to
drive traffic to your site once its done.
First step towards making a is to plan for one. Identify the site objective and try to
determine what the site in question is supposed to deliver. Get a pen and paper ready and
jot down the ideas that come to your mind. You need to select your site topic or niche at
this early stage.
Next step towards building a site would be trying to identify your target audience. You
need to know whether your visitors will be visiting your site to gather information, to
view some of your pictures that you took on your last trip to Cuba, or they will be
clicking on your product/services sales link to buy your products and services. A and
content will be different based on what type of audience you want to cater to.
Once all the planning and prep work is done, next step would be to build the actual site.
You can either use HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, or other languages to build a site. Which
language you will use would depend on your familiarity and comfort level. If you are not
familiar with any, then you can either use a pre-made site template to build on that or
outsource your site design to a .
Once the site is built, you will then need to register a domain name and sign up with a
hosting plan to host your site. There are few reputable domain registers such as Godaddy,
1and1, NameCheap, etc where you can register your domain name from. When it comes
to hosting your site, there are quite a few that you can consider. Godaddy provides
reliable economic hosting for beginners where BlueHost offers PHP hosting packages for
intermediate to advanced level site owners.
Pretty much every single average Joe has a website of his own these days. Whether you
are making a website as a hobby or to run an online business, there are few basic
elements that you need to consider in order to make a successful website. No matter
whether it is a few pages personal website or a full blown commercial site, you need to
do some planning before you can actually start.
Once your site is designed and uploaded to your hosting server, you then need to promote
your site to drive traffic to it. If you want people to find your site and visit, then you need
to put together a promotional plan to drive targeted traffic to your site. You can either do
a little research online on how to promote a site or hire a company or an SEO company
who can promote your site.
