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How to build your own website - Domain name registration

By Sergey Skudaev


What do you need to know to build your own website?

Google allows everyone to earn money with the advertising business. What you need to do is to create your website, somehow attract visitors and place Google ads on your web pages. It is simple! How to start your website? How much does it cost? I will share with your my experience.

Website contents

First, you have to select a topic in which you are an expert or at least for which you have a passion. To attract visitors to your website you will need to write original contents that are interesting and useful for other people.

You cannot copy and paste pieces of text from other websites not only because it is illegal, but also because it is useless. If you want that your website will be findable in Google you have to write original text; a word combination that does not exists anywhere else except on your web pages. Google ignores duplicate pages, and if you copy and paste contents from the internet then your website will not be found, and no visitors will come to your website.

I do not know how many pages you have to create, but the more contents you have, the easier your website will be found on Google. I would say you have to write at least about a hundred pages.

You have to love your topic to be able to write such contents. Remember that your site is for human being and that your contents should be interesting for your visitors in the first place.

So, when you think about your potential visitors do not forget about Google crawler and when you think about Google crawler, do not forget about your visitors.

You like pets, then create a website about pets. You like computers create a website about computers. Let us pretend that we found a topic. What is next?

Domain Name Registration

Next, you have to create a domain name. The domain name for a website is as much important as your name for you. If your name starts with you will be served at the end of a queue. Often, it is better to have a name which is started with A. Also, if your name is short and distinctive you will be less likely confused with someone else the same with a domain name. It should be short, distinctive and it should start with a digit or a character which is close to the beginning of the alphabet. It is good if your domain name includes keywords for which you want your website to be found. However, long domain names with more than 2 keywords look like spam. It is better to make it short.

First, you have to check if the domain is not registered by someone else. Open Google search in your browser and type 'WHO IS domain'. You will find http://www.whois.net/ website where you can check if your domain name is not taken, or to whom it belongs if it is already registered.

You can go directly to godaddy.com to check and register your domain name there. I think it is one of the best places to register domain names.

Some hosting companies offer you hosting with free domain name registration. I had a bad experience with one of such companies and now never "put all my eggs in one basket."

I prefer to register a domain name in one company and host website in another company. This way, if I do not like hosting company, I can move my website to another server and forget about the company I left behind. My domain name is registered independently, and I am free to go anywhere.

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Domain Name Renewal

It is essential not to miss the renewal of your domain name. Usually, I register the domain name for 2-3 years. It is not expensive, just about $10 for a year. If you do not renew your registration, you may lose your domain. It happened to me once. Someone picked up my domain after expiration and then I lost my website. You do not want to lose your website. If you keep your domain name, even if your hosting company stopped its service, you will not lose your website. You move it to another server. It takes up to two days to have it running again, but usually I have it running the next day after I changed name servers.

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