Category: Website Start Up

Adding valuable content to your site

by Gerae Lindsey on February 16th, 2009
Adding valuable content to your site

Once you have finished designing your website, it’s time to move on to adding the actual content.

Continually adding UNIQUE and RELEVANT content is extremely important for both earning and maintaining your search engine rankings. Not only do search engines care about content, but your visitors do too.

Creating new content sometimes sounds difficult, but can actually be accomplished rather easily. Here are some easy ideas for generating new content for your website.

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How to design your website

by Gerae Lindsey on January 20th, 2009
How to design your website

The reason I recommend beginners choose a web host before designing their website pages is this: many web hosts now offer website builders and templates that are perfect for beginners with limited design and HTML skills. If you have access to them, go ahead and use them! Doing so will save you money up front. You can always pay for a more professional design after you get your website going.

When designing your website, you have many options:

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Find a web host to “display” your website

by Gerae Lindsey on January 15th, 2009

Most of my clients know they need to register a domain, but are often confused as to why they also need a web host. A web hosting company provides web space to upload your website files (or pages) to. They also provide email addresses for your domain name. Without a host, visitors cannot access your [...]

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Register your domain name

by Gerae Lindsey on January 14th, 2009

Choosing your domain name is the first step in creating an online presence. I remember a few years back when new webmasters opted out of this step, going for the free web spaces and names (you might remember those geocities.com/websitename type URL’s). This is no longer an option for serious bloggers and affiliate marketers. You [...]

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