Can you create your own website from scratch? Of course you can I did it but it takes a long time to acquire the knowledge to do it when you’re a newbie.

Trying to find information on the internet that will give you honest step by step information is hard, it’s out there but you have to do a lot of digging you get a little bit here a little bit their before someone tries to sale you something, now don’t get me wrong I have bought countless products online and was glad to give the money but the people that get my money offer me something of value.

Now I know people will tell you the money is in the list and it’s very important blah blah blah, it is important but it’s only a part of what you need for success online. There are three things you will need after you have created your site.

The first and most important thing is traffic in fact I think it’s more important than your website, but it’s a bit like the chicken and the egg which comes first, but without a website you will not need traffic, and without traffic you have no website you’re just another page on the search engines.

The second thing you will need is back links high quality back links, and what you will find is someone selling software to get thousands of back links in five minutes what they fail to tell the newcomer is that it’s spam, and everyone hates spam, more money down the drain you can get back links but it takes a little effort on your side.

The third thing required content unique content Google, Yahoo, Bing, all search engines love original content, better for seo.

Ok all that out of the way if I started again and knew then what I know now what would I do different.

1.    I would choose my niche very carefully.

2.    I would try to get a domain name that encapsulated exactly the terms people are putting in to their browsers  by checking keywords, much easier to try and get ranked when you have they exact term in your domain name and title tags.

3.    You will need hosting check in forums for the best ones I prefer Bluehost or Hostgator the help is fantastic when you’re just starting out.

4.    Create your site to best suit the needs of the people searching in that niche; put 8 to 10 articles on your site for content. I would also go to Google analytics sign up for a free account, then place my code on my site and track its progress.

5.    You should Ping your site, so the search engines index it and also every time you post another article.

6.    At this stage you have everything in place, your niche picked domain name acquired, hosting purchased tracking in place, now you need a little traffic people will tell you do this do that try Adwords, try Seo, try Social Bookmarking, try Social Media, their all fine ways of getting a little traffic and when you master it a lot of traffic but when you’re starting out BUY SOME TRAFFIC! it helps get you noticed by the search engines.

7.    At this stage I would start creating back links high quality back links and for those of you that don’t know what a backlink is, it’s your domain name on another website. It’s that simple.

8.    Now the only thing you have to do  is repeat the steps put content on your site ping it get more traffic and more back links, and watch your site rise inching it’s way to the no 1 spot.

So what is the first thing I recommend you should do if you are a complete newbie, is download my step by step illustrated guide to building a website from scratch, learn the basics and then do the steps I have showed you and try not to get sidetracked and FollowOneCourseUntilSuccessful.

To your success

David Carey

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