Building a website

Building a website is usually as easy as cycling down a steep descending road. There are many softwares written in order to ease the work of building and maintaining a website. Even a small ten year old child can easily build a website on its own. All you need is a little bit of web space on the internet. And for this you need a web hosting service. There are a plethora of plans that you can choose from. Though you might not need much space, I would still recommend you to go for at least 10GB server space at the beginning of your venture of running a website. If you are not going to have this website as a major income stream you may purchase space as less as 2GB. A few sites like “blogger” will equip you with a free space of 7 to 10GB if you have a Google account. But these sites are for students who do not have much time for maintaining a business website. These sites are also called as “web logs” or simply “blogs”. A blog is a website which is generally static in nature. There is not much visitor interaction in a freely available blog. But nowadays a few widgets have made it possible for the bloggers to allow their audience to interact with the other members of the blog through comments section and Shoutbox widgets. But, as I said, it is better to go for a paid service if you want your site to look professional.

The next step in building a website is to buy a domain name. This is going to be the address of your site. Webmasters usually prefer to buy the .com domain names for their website. Websites with .com domains are considered to be professional and are hence ranked higher in a search engine. And the formula is “Higher the rank of your website in the Search Engines, higher will be your site traffic and hence higher will be the money that you will get from your website.” Thus, if you are serious about making money from your website it is a good option to buy a .com domain name. Your domain name should be chosen very carefully. The more relevant your domain name will be to your website, the greater will be the chance of your audience finding your site through the Search Engines. And that’s where the actual problem lies. With so many webmasters around it becomes very difficult to find a good domain name which is not used by anybody else before you for your website. Hence you should be using a domain name which will be a unique combination of a few interesting keywords which will be dealt with throughout your website. Say for example that you have a website which exclusively speaks about technical reviews of mobile phones. The immediate domain name which comes to your mind would be www.mobilebphonereviews.com. But, if I am not wrong this domain name will already be in use. There are a few services which will offer you a good domain name. But, if you are smart enough you can think of an unused domain name without many efforts. Just jumble the most important keywords of your website here and there and make the domain name sound a bit interesting by using names like www.technicalmobilereviews.com which sound very catchy and are unused and unthought-of by many others. In order to survive in this business you need to have different skills and talent which people find to be extremely interesting. Your domain name is your reflection in your site. So choose it very carefully. A professional domain name will bring professional people to your site, whereas a funny domain name will attract all kinds of funny and funky people to your website. And it has been proved that both type of websites can help you earn better if you are smart enough to survive the battle. Though all the domain extensions work pretty well when it comes to websites, I would still advice you to go for a .com domain name and make your website look professional.

The next thing you need to decide is if you want a website like facebook, or, you just want a blog where you will be writing about things that you are expert at. Say you are peculiarly good in gardening and you want to build a website in which you will be telling people about the different techniques that you use in your day to day life in order to beautify your garden. In such circumstances you need a blog. If you think that your audience cannot interact with you through a blog or that a blog is a static website, then let me tell you that you are absolutely wrong. In blogs you can allow your readers to leave comments on your blog. Thus this comment widget makes your blog the dynamic website that you had always dreamed of! Also nowadays RSS and Feedburner feeds have made it extremely easy for the webmasters to tell their audience through emails that their blog has been updated and that it is waiting for its loyal readers to go through the latest posts updated by the webmaster.

Now you need a service which will help you convert your Microsoft word document into a webpage. And this work will be done for you by wordpress. Just go to the wordpress official site (might be wordpress.org )and download the software and get going with your blog. You need to write a lot at the beginning in order to attract higher traffic to your blog. There is no other way to bring more traffic to your blog than writing a huge number of useful; and intelligent posts which will steal the hearts of your audience. Do not bother much about link building at the beginning itself. With time your links will build up automatically. Once you build a blog, all that you need to do is: write articles and keep on uploading your website with something new all the time. Search engines love blogs as they are updated everyday. The best part is that you do not need to learn any HTML if you are writing a blog. But, I still feel that you should know at least a little bit of HTML. This will help you a lot in the future as it gives you more control over the various elements and the looks of your blog. But, what if you want to build a complex site like facebook or orkut.

For this you will need to learn a few languages. Else just give it away to a web designer and he will take care of it. A web designer can charge you up to Rs 50,000 depending on the complexity of your site. And if it is a dynamic website that you want to build, then, it is worth paying the sum if you want what you desire. After all you can earn all the time even without sitting in front of your PC once you build a dynamic website. To get something you need to loose something. In this case once you loose fifty thousand you keep on gaining and gaining throughout your life. The older a site, the greater is its chances of shining higher in the search engines.

If you have a blog you need to look back and learn a little bit about search engine optimization. In dynamic websites, the visitors update the necessary data all the time and keep the site busy. And search engines love sites which are very often updated. Hence sites which are way too often updated are always ranked higher. So it is up to you to decide if you want to update your site all by yourself or if you want your audience to update it. If you want to build your own site you will need to learn HTML, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, PHP and some other languages. You need to learn at least HTML, CSS, and Javascript if you want to do it yourself. Also, you need to learn Photoshop in order to design the various page elements of your website. To learn more about it just Google “How to build a flash website”. You might get a useful ebook for free to download and read which would be a much better option if you want to build a flash website.

And now coming to the sweetest part of the core: earning money from your website. You can make money through the ads on your web site. Whenever people come to your website and find an interesting ad on it, they click it. And you can earn upto 10$ per ad click! But, how do you get these ads? From an ad agency. So far, Google Adsense is considered to be the best advertising program available. But, if your audience is large enough, you will make Google earn huge profits through your blog. The reason is because every time someone clicks on your ad, a part of the money coming from the click goes into the pockets of Google (about 20%). Hence Google Adsense is good only for new websites with a lesser traffic.

The best part is that if the traffic of your website is very huge, people will be willing to advertise on your site. Many businessmen will send you emails asking you to put their ad on your site and you will earn a commission for it! And this is how facebook and many other popular websites earn money. So grab you space today and create your own site and start earning!

Have a nice day………
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