Starting a website
Why do you want to start a website? Are you in it for the
money? Are you in it for the chicks (yea right)? Maybe you are
in it, just to share your knowledge or talent for the greater
good of mankind?
I'm in it for the title- "webmaster". It makes me feel like a
big man. Anyway, those are all very legit reason for starting a
website, and they all share some common ground.
The first thing you'll need for your website to work is content.
Now I know it can be a scary word, but if your website is about
your profession, hobby are just a subject you really know about,
it won't be very hard (just mildly hard...). The only way you'll
get really rewarded by the search engine, get supported by other
websites and gain valuable trust from your visitors (maybe
customers), is by supplying unique helpful content. If the
search engines won't reward you, then you won't score high on
the search results (basically, you won't exist). You have to get
support by other website (through links), because search engine
check your link popularity as one factor for deciding how well
you score. If you won't gain your visitors trust, well I don't
have to tell you, how hard it is to give your credit number on
the web.
Now, content is nice and all, but another thing you really want
to find out (especially if you in it for the money) is there a
demand for the subject of your website? You'll be surprised how
many people aren't really interested about things that really
excite you {probably because there is something really wrong
with you [kidding (maybe)]}. A good way to check the demand is
to use the web ceo freeware (look it up). Use the research
keywords option of the software. Type the most basic keywords of
your website theme. For example if your planing your website
about eggplant juice (mmm...yummy), you will get less then 10
visitors a day (and this is very optimistic estimation), on the
other hand, if you pick orange juice as your website theme...You
won't be better off. There are between 63 to 107 daily searches,
and between 9,370,000 to 11,620,000 competition. It will have to
be some really amazing orange juice website to get noticed.
So, there are three lesson to be learned form all this:
1. Choose your website theme about a subject you know about, so
you can supllay unique content.
2. Before you start your website, research the demand and
competion of the subject.
3. Don't start a website about eggplanet juice, don't even try
making it, and by all means don't try drinking it. I won't be a
account responsible!