How to make a website?
Here are the key steps to building a website;

1. Decide whether you need a small website with just a few pages, or a larger website. This will help you decide the answer to step two.
2. You either need website software, website templates or a web host that has website designs/templates as part of the package.
3. Web space to host your website.
4. Learn some basic HTML.
5. Research the keywords to use for each page of your website.

Let’s look at these steps in more detail;

The size of your website.

You may simply want a single page that tells people a little about what you do. My first website was about 3 pages. I didn’t understand the power of the Internet at that stage. I just thought that having a web page would save me money because I wouldn’t need expensive leaflets any more that told people about my business. The website could do it all. I had my domain name printed onto business cards and was very happy to keep it at that level.

After a few years my website started to get visitors via the search engines and that’s when I started to explore how to make a website in depth.

The larger the website you build, the more visitors you will get (as long as you understand Search Engine Optimization, more on that later). So, if you are building a website to either promote an existing business, or to make money from the website in it’s own right (for example by having adverts on the site from which you make an income), bigger is usually better.

Website templates or sofware and webhosting.
It’s very tempting to look for free templates and the cheapest software because we all like to save costs don’t we. However if you want to build a website bigger than a single page, don’t cut costs at this stage, it’s a really false economy. I started out using 1&1 who provide web hosting, design templates and much more. I still have some of my early websites hosted with them. They are very good. However about 3 years ago I came across an even better option. I have dedicated an entire section of my main website to them because I have been so impressed. More about that shortly.

Basic HTML.
Whatever system you decide to use, a basic knowledge of HTML is useful. (HTML is a code used for building web pages). There are plenty of websites which will give you the basics for free. Just do a search for ‘HTML codes’.

Research your website subject\’s keywords.
This is a very crucial part of the website building process. Most people focus on creating a nice design and think that if the site looks attractive they will get lots of visitors… Wrong! People won’t even find your site (unless you spend heavily on advertising it) unless you understand keywords.

The web package I now use exclusively, not only shows you how to make a website (they have an in-depth video and online written course) but importantly it includes an invaluable keyword tool like no other I have ever used. The result of that tool is that a website I built 23 months ago is getting 900+ visitors a day with no advertising costs. A website I built 5 years ago, when I didn’t know about keywords, is getting about 10 visitors a day. And that’s in spite of the fact that the website looks great!

Finally, learning how to make a website is going to take time. There’s an awful lot to learn, but when you consider that a properly built site can create a long-term passive income for you, it’s well worth it. Plus, it can be great fun and very satisfying.

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