mama_soap 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2005 How to Build a Successful Website This is a free book online, and I am hoping some of it's contents will be useful to fellow members here. [To all members of Xisto]: You can freely ignore the 'finding a good webhost' chapter, I think we've managed that part successfully I hope I'm not violating the TOS by linking to a site like this, perhaps one of the mods can let me know if I am. Chapters Overview: Preproduction Choosing a Site Model Choosing a Site Topic Choosing a Domain Choosing a Hosting Company Researching Competition Content and Copyrights Webmaster Copyright Primer Building Content Choosing the Right Keywords Keywords and Writing Effective Content Building Your Site HTML Aspects of SEO Meta and Title Tags Creating Effective URLS Why You Need A Quality Design Directories How Directories Work Submitting to Directories The Open Directory Project Looksmart and Zeal Yahoo Search Engines Introduction to Search Engines Google AltaVista Fast/AllTheWeb Teoma All About Link Popularity and PageRank Communities and Newsletters Community Primer Newsletter Publishing Primer Spam Traffic Analysis Traffic Analysis Primer Revenue Advertising and Affiliate Jargon A Publisher's Introduction to Internet Advertising A Survey of Ad Networks Affiliate Program Primer Affiliate Gold Charging for Content I found the chapters on copyright issues and SEO quite interesting. Hope some of you here will find this useful as well. *whisks off to read what's in the Revenue section* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DjLuki 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2005 that looks cool, it explains everything. looks like i got some reading to do lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
varunone 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2005 Sorry Mate,Link is not opening ... got any alternatives ?Cheers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rvalkass 5 Report post Posted June 12, 2005 This does look like a very interesting service. I was about to start creating a site and apply for hosting, but I think I'll leave that for the moment! Thanks very much for this resource. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
odomike 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2005 Yea...I cant open the link too. Something wrong with it I think. And you got a lota good things in there for us to read. And itis a very good start for the first timer.Good work man. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ralphie 0 Report post Posted June 13, 2005 hey thanks for the link. ill probably read through some of that in a bit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rustypaulin 0 Report post Posted June 13, 2005 it seems like a good read i dont have time to read it at the minute but i'll try and skim through bits of it later, the bit about SEO really interests me becuase i would like to optimize my site to get a higher page rank and more visitors Share this post Link to post Share on other sites