Website Design Steps

So you are going to look into the idea of getting you rbusiness or hobby online with a website? then this is a simple look at the process to keep in mind.

Step One: A good website name to fit your market

We discuss throughout the site the importance and process of picking the right URL to "name your site". Your name will be the thing that you try to 'ring' in people ears and get them to stop in and see more about your business and you personally. You will want to think of a name that is either catchy, keyword laden or very personal. You can read more about how to choose a good domain name here on our site.

Choosing domain names

Step Two: What do your customers really search for?

Assuming search engines to be one of your key intended sources of free hits to your site, you need to know how your customers will use them. There are a large number of tools on the internet that will give you a peek at the best keywords to use in your targeting campaign.

When taking on a marketing project we always go in looking for the
highest sought after keywords VS lowest competition

What this means is to find the keyword that is most often searched monthly according to overture.com or perhaps marketleap.com stats and generate a ratio with the number of sites competing for that term, which is another marketleap.com available number with the niche market analyzer. In this way, and also figuring for vagueness of some terms, we find the best keyword to get fastest success and most quality searching visitors.

Step Three: Website Hosting

While this is a service we can provide for small business customer who dont want to bother with the details of setting up a hosting account, it is still a personal preference decision. When you choose hosting you want to be sure you host has the available technologies to get your site running wit the times. A host should always have:

PHP 4 or 5
MYSQL with unlimited databases
Unlimited Subdomains
Apache
Quality statistics though there are free packages on the net for this.
Unlimited email accounts
Unlimited forwarders, autoresponders and CGIemail.

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