The Web Design Card Catalog (Part III: Hosting & SEO)
Alright, so now you’ve gotten your site together. You learned some HTML, CSS, & Scripting. Found a good CMS and played around with graphics until you found a good look. What’s next? Well first you have to find a good place to host your website. After you’ve found a host, it’s time to think up a good name for your site. Finally you have to work on optimizing it so others can find it.
Hosting:
Hosting is a personal decision. You need to asses what kinds of services you need (MySQL, PHP, etc..), how much bandwidth, how much you’re willing to pay, and what kind of uptime you need. All of the sites provided here are shared hosting solutions. If you’re ready to move on to a dedicated server, you probably don’t need a guide like this anyway.
- “Web Hosting, Domain Names, FREE Website Builder, FREE Domain Name with Web Hosting, FREE Code Bank, 90 Day Money Back Guarantee.”
- “DreamHost Web Hosting - Providing scalable Linux-based web hosting and FREE domain registration. Offering PHP, Perl/CGI, MySQL, SSL, Jabber, Ruby on Rails, RealMedia, and much more!”. Dreamhost is my personal web host. They are employee owned, and they are carbon neutral. Two thumbs up.
- “From the business owner to the individual who desires full functionality on a small budget, HostMonster provides your complete web hosting solution.”
- “We offer quality web hosting services specializing in affordable dedicated servers, personal and business web hosting and VPS. Supports PHP, MySQL, ASP and JSP. Industry leading prices w/ 250GB storage and 2500GB data transfer and free domain name.”
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Web Hosting
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SEO & Making Money Through Advertising:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) really begins with just registering your sites with the search engines themselves. At a minimum you should register with the following three search engines:
After having registered, it’s time to try to push your site to the top of the rankings. The best way to do this is to have a lot of links from other highly ranked sites. There are a lot of other tricks to getting yourself pushed up in the rankings and the higher you are in the rankings, the more you can make through advertising, here are a few links to get you started.:
- SEO Articles.
- Some ways to get paid for all your hard work.
- “List of best and worst practices for designing a high traffic website: Here is a checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and the other search engines. The list contains positive, negative and neutral factors because all of them exist.”
- “Everyone knows social media sites like Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon can drive massive amounts of traffic to your website. IF you can get on the front page. The problem is that most submissions drop like an anvil through the new queue without getting more than one or two votes. I can’t tell you how to become a [...]” Stumble Upon is either the best or worst thing to ever happen to me. You can find anything you’re interested in there. Unfortunately you can get sucked in and lost all sense of time.
- Check and monitor your PR
- “A comprehensive SEO and web marketing study. Search engine technology and SEO explained. Useful web marketing tips and tutorials. Successful link building strategies.”
- This guy writes articles on a variety of subjects and then looks into how much money he can make from them through AdSense.
- “The search engine optimization field is wild and unpredictable, welcome to your one stop for all the updates.”
- ” One of the more popular questions I’ve received recently is: “What is social bookmarking and how do I get started?” Social Bookmarking is quite a simple concept really… It basically is about sharing your “bookmarks” (like your “favorites” in your internet explorer)?with a Social Bookmarking Site. (…)”