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Congrats on taking the first steps to creating your very own website. These essential first steps on becoming educated will build a solid foundation to getting your website online.
We will cover a ton of information on how you will create your website. It can be somewhat overwhelming if you are just starting out so we have created this page to keep you organized.
Creating a website is really not that difficult if you have a solid plan, good ideas and the tools to get it done. We will be covering all of those details and give you plenty of links to an array of different resources and tools to help you get it done quickly.
Choosing An Idea and Niche
When it comes to choosing a topic for your website the ideas are virtually endless. Contrary to popular belief, it is not always the best idea to choose a topic that you've seen others have success with.
We suggest you choose a topic for your site that you are knowledgeable or passionate about. Choosing a niche that you know a lot about will make the work part of creating the site much more fun for you. We love to teach people how to create websites and then make money for them so this niche is easy for TWM.
NOTE: if you are thinking about creating a website to teach people to "make money online" you may want to think twice. If you have never made money online before you will have little to no credibility.
When you are ready to come up with a niche we will guide you on how to find and research profitable niche markets.
How to Choose a Good Domain Name
After you have an idea for your website it is time to find a domain name for your website.
If you are ready to purchase a domain name you can get them here.
Choosing a quality domain name is essential and we show you how in the domain name section.
Hosting Account for Your Website
Choosing quality hosting for your website is very important. You want a reliable host that has a very high uptime and enough bandwidth capacity to serve your website visitors.
We steer away from free hosting because many times these services are simply unreliable. Free hosting also many times displays ads on your page. You wont get the revenue from these ads, your host will.
You can learn all about hosting and how to change a quality website host at our hosting page.
Setting Goals for Your Website
We can not stress the importance of making a plan and goals for your website enough. You have to have a clear picture of what you want to achieve with your website.
Are you creating a purely informational site? An ecommerce site? A blog? All of these are completely different and require different steps to complete. We show you how to make goals and a plan for your site at our website goals page.
Creating a Blog
Whether you are creating an ecommerce site, an informational site, or an affiliate marketing site, you need a blog. A blog gives you a chance to share extra information that relates to your niche.
Having a blog to accompany your main website is a great way to promote your main website. You can also make money with your blog. We show you how to create a blog.
Ecommerce Websites
So you want to sell products online? Do you know all the steps to take and what order to complete them in? If not then you need to read our section on creating an ecommerce website.
There are so many ecommerce platforms available and it can be a confusing maze. We break down the best ecommerce platforms and show you how can start selling online quickly. Visit our ecommerce website page to learn more.
Website Builders
So maybe you do not have any website design experience what-so-ever? This is not a problem at all. There are many online website builders that work very well to create a simple website for you.
We will also cover different social networking sites and how you can utilize these to build free web pages to promote your main website. Read more about free website builders.
Website Design Software
If you want to get serious about building a website and making money from it then you need some quality website design software.
We make a few recommendations in this section for both beginners and more experienced webmasters. Any website design software is an extremely important asset that you will utilize constantly.
Learn all about different website design software.
Choosing a Good Template for Your Website
A template can make your life much easier when designing your website. There are many free templates available that you can use to build your website.
We will show you where to find quality templates and also how you can build your own template. We cover dynamic templates, css templates, and pure html templates in this section. Learn more about website templates.
How to Get Quality Traffic to Your Website
You may have the best products, content or service in the world but without traffic your ideas mean nothing. You can have an ugly site, but get tons of traffic and still make a lot of money.
There many different ways to get traffic, both paid and free, and we will cover many of these. Visit our page on getting traffic to your website.
How to Monetize Your Website
So you have a website and you are getting traffic, now how do you make money from that traffic? No matter what your website goals are, you can make money online IF you have traffic.
There are tons of ways to make money from your existing traffic and we will show you only the most proven and honest ones.
Learn how to monetize your traffic.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search engine optimization is the process of boosting your ranking within the popular search engines. Search engine traffic is simply the best traffic you can get because it is highly targeted and it is free. But, there you will not get this quality traffic if you do not fall in the top 20 spots for searches on your keywords.
We will show you how you can get in the top 10 to 20 spots for your popular keywords. This can take years of hard work for some competitive niche markets but is well worth the effort.
Learn all about search engine optimization and how you can boost your sites ranking.
