How to Build a Website Right (the first time)

A recent study of people trying to make a living online discovered a few interesting facts. Almost 50% of those people didn’t have a unique, professional website of their own. And, those that did, averaged almost 10 times as much income as those who didn’t! Those marketers who didn’t have a website said it was either too hard to build one and get it up and running, or that it was just too expensive to pay for a really good web host, and cheap web hosts lacked the tools they needed to make a really good site, and they just didn’t have the support they needed to help them with questions or problems. Plus, many of them felt overwhelmed with the idea of building a website, and just didn’t know where to start or what to do first. All of these are valid concerns,

Many people are paying way too much for their web hosting, and others are hosting with companies that provide marginal service and support. Many people get “roped in” by advertisements for hosting accounts that only cost three or four dollars a month, only to find that they have to sign up for 3-4 years to get that price, and that the add-ons and extras they need for their site can more than double that price. Then, after you get your domain name and web hosting set up, what do you do next to build an impressive, really professional looking, SEO optimized web site?

In this article, I’ll try to help you, step by step, to build a web site you can be proud of, and that will be able to attract traffic and make you a profit, as well. First of all, don’t go and sign up for a domain name or web hosting now! You really won’t need it for a few weeks or a month, and there’s no reason to pay for it while you’re not going to be using it.

Here are the six steps you need to take, in the order you need to take them, in order to build a unique, professional, profit pulling website.

1.Decide on your area of expertise or �niche�. What product(s) do you plan on selling, and is there a market for those products? What is the competition in that market like? Are there a lot of other well constructed and optimized sites that carry similar products? Examine the top 10 listings for your major keywords in Google, Yahoo! and MSN to find out what they’re doing, and do you think you can compete with them. This can be a lot of work, but there are specialized tools and software to make it easier. Some of these, like the Google keyword tool and the Wordtracker trial, are free. Other, better tools may cost you a few dollars, but save you days of time and work, and will give you values for the effectiveness of your keywords (KEI). This is just a numerical comparison of how large your market is versus how much competition there is in that market. There are a few tools like this out there, but I use the full version of WebCEO. You can get a free trial version at WebCEO Free Trial. Really brainstorm at this point. If your first idea doesn’t have a lot of searches on Google, YaHoo! or MSN, or if the competition is too tough, think of another idea. You want to be in a field you can succeed in. The one exception to this is if your website is an extension of your brick and mortar business. In that case, spend more time researching for keywords that your competition may have missed, but that get a fair amount of daily searches.
2.Generate an extensive keyword list for the niche you choose, and print it out. You don’t want just the most searched for keywords, you also want the �long tail� (more than 3 words) keywords that apply to your site, even if they’re searched for infrequently. Most people search using a combination of from 2-4 words. One word, or 5 or more word, searches only account for about 25% of the total. Still, these long terms will be easier to rank highly for, and that business is easier to get, especially if you give people exactly what they’re looking for with the long tail searches. The tools mentioned above can also help with this. Try adding brand names to your keywords, or more specific and less common terms for each one.
3.Begin collecting information related to the topic of your site, and write some of your own, unique content. You can find PLR (private label rights) articles on just about any topic. Visit free giveaway sites to find some, or do a search for �PLR articles on (your topic)�. Article directories can also be a source of info, but those articles normally come with restricted rights. Still, you can get ideas from those articles to write your own unique content. Don’t plagiarize other people’s work! Besides being simply wrong, it can get you in real legal trouble, and the search engines will definitely recognize duplicate content. With your PLR articles, you have the right to edit and adapt them, and you should definitely do so. Try to add your own unique perspective to each one you plan on using. Keep the keyword list you generated above next to you while you write, and try to include a good amount of those words in your content, without making it sound weird or strange. It can help to try and create one article specifically geared towards each high KEI keyword you have. These can be used as posts in your blog, or on your ADDITIONAL INFO pages.
4.Design your website on paper, and decide what content you’ll place where, and how the pages will link together. Basically, create a map of your site. A common design will include at least some of these pages. HOME � Your main landing page (index.html) / ABOUT US (OUR COMPANY) / OUR PRODUCTS (& / or OUR SERVICES) (leads to your e-commerce shopping cart) / ASK A QUESTION (or SUPPORT) / ADDITIONAL INFO / CONTACT US (address, email address or form, phone) / OUR NEWSLETTER (leads to a sign-up page) / BUY NOW (leads to purchase page) / YOUR SHOPPING CART / SIGN IN / SIGN UP. A main menu linking to these pages should appear on all of them, usually at the top, or on the left side, or both. You may also want to add special areas to your website, like a blog or a mailing list to send out your newsletter or sales flyers. These areas may or may not be linked directly to your other pages.
5.Create, edit and proof the written portion of your content, using Notepad. Almost every Windows computer has this simple html editor. Simply type out, and use Copy/Paste, to build your pages. Make a separate file for each page (index.txt, aboutus.txt, etc.) and save them all in a file named �YourNiche�Website, or something similar. (HINT: don’t hit return when your text runs off the side of the page, until you’re ready to make a paragraph break.) Don’t worry too much about links and product listings yet, just get the basic written copy done. If you don’t have Notepad on your computer, you can use Writer in Open Office, which is a free software package available from openoffice.org. Just don’t worry about formatting the content yet (bold, fonts, headers, bullet points, numbered lists, etc.), you’ll do that later. Collect, or make any images you may want on your web site. Your logo, for instance, or pictures of your offices, products, associates, etc. Collect them in a folder named �images�, in your website folder.
6.Now you’re finally ready to register a domain name and get your hosting set up. With all of the background work done, getting your site set up will be much quicker and easier, and you won’t be paying for something you’re not using, while you accomplish everything above. You may also need FTP (file transfer protocol) software, to manipulate certain pages in your web site. You can get a free, easy to use one called Filezilla, at sourceforge.net.

Here’s a few hints about getting your web hosting. For a business, you definitely don’t want to use �free� hosting. It may be tempting, but the small space and bandwidth, the �domain name� which includes the free hosts name, the mandatory ads, the other restrictions, and the almost total lack of support, just won’t allow you to build a professional e-commerce web site.

Really cheap web hosts, especially those that allow you to pay �by the month�, have their own set of problems. Lack of support, outdated, unreliable servers, and restrictions on the programs and scripts you can use are among them. Perhaps the worst problem you’ll face with one of the cut-rate hosts is that you may be sharing your IP address with scammers, spammers, hackers, and phishers. These low life members of the internet world specifically target low priced, pay by the month, hosting companies. They know their website will be shut down in a few days or weeks, so they want to invest as little as possible in it. They collect what money they can from their scams, and then move on to another host. Meanwhile, your web site (which shared their IP address), may be blocked from sending mail to all the major mail servers, until your host confirms that they have closed the offending account.

Also, because they have so many complaints of spam to deal with, many of these hosting companies have adopted a �guilty until proven innocent� attitude. This means that if a few of your customers click your mail into their Spam folder, rather than just using your unsubscribe link, you can be accused of spamming! They didn’t mean to cause you a problem, they just didn’t want to get your emails anymore. Some cheap hosts will shut down your website, and lock your domain name, until you provide documentation that those messages weren’t spam. Of course, you should be able to do this, but in the meantime, your site can be shut down for weeks!

If money is no object, a full priced Premium hosting company will give you a large amount of space and bandwidth, a variety of tools and bonuses, and the support is usually at least decent, although this can vary from host to host. Some of the larger ones seem to spend more money on celebrity endorsements and TV ads than on their tech support departments. Of course, this will cost you $24.95 to $39.95 per month per site (if paid yearly), plus many do have a one time set-up fee of $30-$99 per website.

Personally, I’ve tried both a few cheap and a couple of different premium web hosts over a period of about six years. None of them lived up to my expectations, in one way or another. I’ve had a web site of mine shut down due to a spam complaint by a large, well known, cheap hosting company, and even though I was innocent, it took 12 days to get it unlocked. I’ve hosted with a large premium host that took an average of 24-48 hours to answer simple support questions. Another Premium host told me that the Pearl modules I’d ask to have updated were done. After two weeks of fiddling around with a script that I couldn’t get to work, I checked, and found out the upgrades had never been done! Still, overall, I’ve found you do �get what you pay for�, and I’d recommend a premium host over a dirt cheap one, any day.

By chance, I happened to find my current host, because of my wife’s business. They have a fantastic program, with all of the features, tools, space and bonuses of any premium host out there, plus some SEO and software bonuses that the others don’t have. And the price was so low, I almost didn’t give them a try, since I didn’t want a repeat of my experiences with some of the other cheap web hosts. Unfortunately for most people, they only offered their hosting packages to professionals in the real estate and mortgage lending industries. It was a �bonus� they offered to the affiliates who do business with them. Since my wife owns a mortgage brokerage, and was using their wholesale lending products, she was offered the opportunity to use their hosting service, and I decided to give it a try. I actually assumed the support would probably be marginal, but the price was so good, I was willing to risk it. I was wrong. They said all support questions would be handled within an hour, and I’ve actually always had an answer in no more than 15-20 minutes.

The good news is, since the recent meltdown in the real estate market, they’ve lost a lot of clients, who simply went out of business. This company had a decision to make. They could either offer their service to a wider range of clients, or shut the program down. Due mainly to the fact that their current clients (me included) were adamant about the fact that they wanted to continue to host their websites with them, they decided to establish a new online presence that would give everyone an opportunity to use their web hosting and domain name registration service. Now, you can host your site anywhere you’d like, but if you want a premium hosting service with all of tools and extras, without paying the $400-$500 a year premium price, I’d recommend href=”http://www.hostjacker.com”>HostJacker.com as the best option.

One of their best features is their online website builder. This can save you several hundred dollars over buying a WYSIWIG software package to use. Just choose a template, name your pages, and paste in your content and images. It automatically establishes your links between pages, and launches your site with one click. They also have a 30 day money back guarantee, so you can try them out with no risk. Once you’ve completed steps 1-5 above, you can go to href=”http://www.hostjacker.com”>HostJacker.com to find out more.

I hope this article has been of help to you in starting to build your own, unique web site. In future articles, I’ll go over each step in detail, and give you more links to free and cheap tools you can use for each step. If you decide you’d like to get these articles in the form of a newsletter, my next article will have a link you can use to sign up, and I’ll send each detailed step right to your Inbox.

Part of the fundamentals of and quality long term business strategy is that
of defining your target market and delivering quality products within a
particular marketing niche. A solid understanding of niche marketing and how
to develop your marketing strategies to target your products and services to
different niches is critical to long term internet marketing business successes.

Once the business owner has determined which particular marketing niche they
will target their product to; as the use of the internet is critical to an
business today; use of appropriate niche marketing software wil be necessary.

With all successful businesses, leverage is used extensively and for niche
marketing the business owner would pay a designer to develop niche marketing
websites or if possible purchase websites which can be readily modified and
adapted and used within multiple marketing niches. Niche Marketing Mini Sites
addresses a specific need in the market place and will make a siginificant
enhancement to any niche marketing internet based business.

Stephen C Campbell

When deciding on the perfect wedding favors for your reception guest there are a few simple things you need to remember to ensure you have chosen the right one.

First you must consider what time of year is your wedding going to take place. Seasonal themed wedding favors offer just the right touch to your wedding day. For example winter wedding favors provide such as snowflake place card holders really add to your table decor. Summer themed favors such as adirondack beach chair candle holder really add character to your outdoor wedding on the beach. Autumn or fall wedding favors like maple leaf fall in love wedding coasters make wonderful and practical wedding gifts for you special guest.

Aside from the time of year you will also need to decide on what type of favors fit your personal life style. If you and your loved one like to play golf, then golf wedding favors is probably the way to go. If you prefer a traditional type of wedding then colors like black and white will be your choice of theme and favors.

Maybe your on a tight budget and your looking for cheap wedding favors, there are many inexpensive yet high quality favors to choose from. There are many factors which you will need to decide on, and once you have thought this all out, your choice should become easy.

The best way to choose the perfect souvenir for your wedding guest is to buy a keepsake that comes from your heart. If you follow your heart it tells your guest you really care and appreciate that they came and shared your special day with you.

As you likely already know, education is very important. Wetter it is primary education, continued education, high school or otherwise.

There are many high schools and universities in the US that accept new pupils each year. Interesting enough, it’s now possible to do your education online.

Online education sites are everywhere these days. Continuing Education online may be a possibility as well (where you start education in a college or vocation school but did not reach graduate).

It’s always good to work towards a better education in the future.

There are many resources for Continuing Education On Line.

Have a look around and you’re sure to find some.

Another interesting idea is to look around the net for articles relating to education.

Skin care is more about safeguards and preventive measures (than treatment). Good skin care is about being proactive as well as reactive. As a matter of fact, we can say that �adult acne care� and acne treatment is about being active about the demands of your skin so that the need for being sensitive is reduced to a minimum.

The Importance Of Acne Prevention

We all acknowledge the importance of �acne prevention�. The popular opinion on how- to (for acne prevention) differs from individual to individual. A few people believe that going to beauty salons every other day is personal skin care. Others believe that acne prevention is just a matter of employing some cream or lotion on your skin, every now and then. Then there are people who think that acne prevention is an event that takes place once a month or once a year. Still others busy themselves with �acne prevention� all the time. However, acne prevention is not that complicated and neither is it that expensive (considering how beneficial it is). Personal skin care is following a routine or a procedure for attending to the needs of your skin.

Choosing A Facial Skin Care Product

Once you have designated the facial skin care product for yourself, you likewise need to assure that you utilize the facial skin care product in the right way i.e. follow correct procedures for application, use the correct quantity and make the facial product a part of your skin care routine.

The Damages Of Stress On The Skin

Beating stress constitutes another natural skin care therapy. Stress induces general damage to body and wellness. Drink a lot of H2O, getting a sound sleep and exercise has already been mentioned as stress busters. Indulging in a warm bubble bath, listening to music and playing your favorite sport are also good ways of beating stress. Yoga is yet another way of beating stress; it is fast gaining popularity amongst the masses.

Gentle, Not Harsh Skin Care Tips

A healthy skin regimen should include no harsh scrubbing or over- washing, because this can cause possible skin irritation or possible over production of oil to replace what�s washed off, clogging pores in the process. Products with gentle ex-foliation ingredients are OK to use; i.e. not scratchy nut or fruit shell pieces that can tear skin.

The Road To A Clearer Complexion

Tension and deficiency of rest have a revealing effect on the skin. The body needs rest to repair and rejuvenate skin cells. If the body does not get this rest the skin generally appears pallid and adds to a emaciated look. Also the bags that form below the eyes due to water retention, give the individual a dazed look. Lack of sleep has also been pinned as one cause of acne. Combine this with all of the above, and you’ll be well on your way to a clearer skin condition.

Want to know more about acne prevention and acne medicine products? The road to good skin care has become much clearer with the right solutions.

Mike Gates of VideoClipMiniSites, has just released a new software script that will bring the power of video websites to the “little guy”!

The VideoClipMiniSites video site script is a web based piece of software that will allow anyone to created topic related (Niche) video web sites that utilize the thousands of YouTube videos.

For a limited time, Mike is offering the video site builder with a discount coupon. Stay tuned for the discount details below.

According to Mike “With the VideoClipMiniSites Builder anyone can easily build an unlimited number of video websites in just minutes each”.

It’s no secret that video sites are extremely popular, people love to watch video clips - it can be addictive.

But, the cost to build a YouTube type of video hosting site is out of reach of the average person.

The costs of video hosting scripts, the cost of video storage and delivery bandwidth and the cost of technical people to install and maintain a video hosting site is just too cost prohibitive for any individual.

The VideoClipMiniSites site builder allows you to create niche video sites for almost nothing, and to create them with very little technical “know how”!

Mike states “To be competitive in today’s online video market, it’s best to slice off specific segments of the overall large market, and focus on those segments. These segments are often referred to as niche markets.

The VideoClipMiniSites builder will allow you to easily build new video sites related to any niche you can think of, or enhance your current web properties by adding topic related videos that your visitors will love. All with the click of a button.”

Each website page contains optimized Adsense ads for revenue generation. Or, you can use whatever advertising you choose on your sites.

Each page also contains your VideoClipMiniSites affiliate link, so you can make 50% commission on any sales referred from one of your pages.

Each page contains Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking code to allow your visitors to easily bookmark and share your webpages with others.

Each page contains a link, you specify, in the footer of the page, and you can change it at any time. This will create traffic to the link you specify, plus create incoming links - search engine food!

You could EASILY build 10 websites a day (that could be 300 in a month), with each video site having multiple pages, growing daily, and earning you money.

You don’t need any technical “know how”, if you can ftp files to a web host, you can do this. If you don’t know how to ftp to a web host, Mike is committed to helping you by recommending a web host and ftp software. Mike stressed “I’ll help anyone who is willing to listen, and to learn, get started building their own video clip web sites”.

Showing his commitment to helping others, Mike has created a members only forum, where he will show you how to make the most out of your video sites, how to get your site listed in Google in about 24 hours, and how to use Web 2.0 techniques to build traffic to your sites.

Video will continue to be huge in 2008 and beyond. Now the “little guy” can get in on the online video trend, and enjoy the benefits on utilizing videos clips.

The VideoClipMiniSites video website builder is the easy and inexpensive answer to creating quality niche video websites.

As Mike mentioned earlier, he has a limited number of discount coupons, that probably won’t last long.

These discount coupons are good for two weeks, expiring Jan. 24th and will be limited to the first 50 purchasers.

Use the coupon below for your discount.
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The coupon will be applied upon check out. Click on the “Click Here to Buy Now” button at http://www.videoclipminisites.com

Enter your email address and Proceed to Checkout. Near the bottom of the Billing Information page, enter your Discount Coupon vcms4bl0g and click Update Form, the $10 discount will be applied.

Similar video clip site builders are being sold for $67, you can get the VideoClipMiniSites builder for $37 if you hurry.

These discount coupons will go quickly, so don’t wait too long.

We are pleased to announce that our web site JolierRegionalRealEstateListings.com has become fully functional. We have more than twenty properties which are moderately priced and we will soon be adding more . Also available, are more than two hundred articles on various aspects of real estate. These articles vary in subject matter from foreclosure issues which affect both buyer and owner to matters affecting buyers and sellers individually.
Each individual listing has the ability to change the information house descriptions from English to Spanish. We find that becomes very helpful to the members of our Latino community.
Our site is a real estate listing company only. We are NOT a Real Estate Broker. Our listing fees are available to prospective sellers at an affordable price. We have plans which are on a monthly basis and ones which have a flat fee which lasts until the property is sold.
The web site for Joliet Regional Real Estate Listings is visited more frequently than many other many other similar web sites. This is important because currently, over 72 % of all real estate originate as a result of an Internet search. Our high ranking, makes us more likely to be seen and visited by both buyers and sellers.
We also accept apartment rental listings. Developers and apartment lease managers also use our services because of our higher number of visitors.
In our plans for the future are community services listings for each community in the Will County, Grundy County and Kankakee County. These sections will provides information on emergency services, community services and other worthy activities.
For more information contact us or visit our web site JolierRegionalRealEstateListings.com

Cruising is now big business, only last week private equity group Apollo Management became a major shareholder in Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) having spent $1 billion for a 50 percent share of the company. Apollo has also recently purchased Oceania Cruises and has a deal with Regent Seven Seas and is a growing force within the industry. So what else is growing within the industry?

Ships have grown rapidly over the last few years, when you consider that Titanic was 52,300 tons and considered in its time to be a monster of a ship; nowadays car ferries are just as big. Royal Caribbean Cruise Line are renowned for being innovative within the world of cruising and are pushing the boundaries with a new cruise ship that will make the Titanic appear nothing more than a barge. At 220,000 tons the Genesis class ship will surpass the Independence of the Seas, due to enter service this spring, which at 158,000 tons will be the joint largest cruise ship in the world at present. It begs the question, just how big can they make a cruise ship?

Another growing aspect is how we receive the news of what the cruise companies are doing and that is via the cruising website. Independent cruise websites are growing almost daily as more people try to get on the bandwagon of an industry that appears to be on a never ending uplift. The Cruise is one of these new, growing websites and has been designed by Drabdesign a UK based search engine optimisation company that has a history of cruising websites. What makes the cruise stand out is the look and feel of a real newspaper and although it is still being worked on, it will have an archive of a whole year�s news. Being split into sections means if you are interested in the growing number of new builds, or news from a specific location such as US Based Cruise News even destination news, it will have it all.

There is no doubt, wherever you look in the world of cruising, there is some form of growth.

The question is often asked how do I use my Subconscious Mind and what does
the law of attraction have to do with me.

Well, the fact is that all change takes place from within first and then the results are seen on the outside. The way we use our Subconscious Mind relates directly to how the Law Of
Attraction operates in our lives and therefore impacts upon the circumstances and ultimately the results which we see in our lives.

Our brain is a wonderful and powerful piece of equipment and; our thoughts are indeed things which affect things at the quantum level and has an impact on our health, happiness and prosperity. Unfortunately most of us are not aware of how to make use of our Subconscious
Minds and are unaware of the fact that left to its own devices and our standard negative programming; it serves to work against that which we want to accomplish in our lives.

Before today webmasters could only dream of owning websites that could turn every visitor they get into cash. This was because of two reasons:

1) People are unpredictable and do not like to be told what to do.

2) The sales process was inherently flawed.

That is until NetAudioAds� came up with pay per play ads. Click here to learn more. These 5 second audio only ads have sparked great debate among the internet marketing community because of the disaster of pop-ups. The reason this is so is because the ads start to play whenever the website loads and the publisher (web site owner) gets paid. No clicking or sign-up necessary.

Will this new technology get out of hand like the pop-ups? I do not think so, because I believe that people learn from their mistakes and will only place the ads on appropriate websites.

The only way to find out is to join for free through this special link Join Pay Per Play before 1st February 2008 when they officially launch. You can always cancel the account if you change your mind later.

(Remember “Hind sight is 20/20″)
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