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[M63]Make A Website Easy

by Vita V., Vit

My brother's wife is creating a website and she has asked me to come to her house to guide her through the process. She is extremely aggravated by the process and she seems very confused and frustrated. I agreed to give her a hand, but I really do not know that much about creating a website myself. I was flattered that she thought that I did know how to create a webpage, but I was not sure why she thought that I had experience with it.

I came to the sudden realization that my sister in law is under the impression that I am efficient at creating a website because she has visited my blog. I think that she is confusing blogs with websites. I may know how to set up a blog but this does not qualify me to tutor someone on creating a webpage. I have come to the realization that many people do not understand the difference between a blog and a webpage.

I am not sure if I understand the difference between creating a blog and creating a website, but I'm going to give it a shot. Actually I have trouble describing the difference between a blog and a website. A blog is a kind of online journal. The person who creates the blog posts short articles, pictures and various entries to give the blog some depth. There is little work in creating a blog. Blogs are free and very user friendly and I am quite comfortable with the format.

I imagine that there is significantly more work involved in creating a website. After all, there are professionals who work full time in the field of web design. I did suggest that my sister-in-law should use a service like Bravenet in her attempts at creating a website. Bravenet has everything a lay person needs to get started and it has a lot of information and technical support. I am going to walk her through the steps as they are presented by Bravenet and see if we can work together in creating a website.

If all goes well, I may even create a website of my own. For now, I am going to stick to blogging. Like I said, blogs are user-friendly and they are free. I really do not need anything else right now. In the future, I may call my sister-in-law to see if she can help me when I try my hand at creating a website on my own. Hopefully, she will get me moving in the right direction.

Probably the most important step in promoting a website is building one that is user and search engine friendly. Too often a website is so convoluted with information, that the thread that should permit browsers to find their way through it is lost. This also means that there is no congruence with respect to keywords. Think of one keyword or key phrase that describes what your website is all about – ideally, this should be a word or phrase that someone would type into a search engine when looking for information on the topic – and then use the word and phrase on your site frequently.

Secondly, swap links with other sites. Obviously, if you have a site dedicated to dog shampoo, you will want to find other sites that have something to do with either dogs or shampoo and swap links with them. A site that sells wood carving kits will not do you any good. Thus, be wise when swapping links. In addition to the foregoing, keep your site as free from banner ads as possible. A few well placed ads may be acceptable, but if you turn into an affiliate site for other vendors, potential customers or visitors will be turned off and move on.

Third, you will need to submit your website to the search engine. There is no other tool that will help you to promote your website as much as a good search engine submission. You will probably run across a large number of sites that will submit your site to search engines for free. Stay away from these sites! Not only will your email address be submitted to so many spammers that your inbox will never be the same, but many major search engines no longer accept this mass additions, and therefore your submission is useless. Instead, find the big search engines and go through the manual submission process to get your site properly listed.

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