Build A Successful Site In 12 Months
The following is from a post from Webmaster World. I think it’s a great article and a good read for anyone starting up a website.
I know this system works 100% of the time with Google to attain rankings across a wide range of keywords. This is what I do with clients to build a successful site and it has worked every time. The level of success will depend largely on the subject matter, its potential audience, and its level of competition on the net.
The following will build a successful site in one years time via Google alone. It can be done faster if you are a real go getter, or everyone’s favorite, a self starter.
1. Prep Work & Begin Building Content
Long before the domain name is settled on, start putting together notes to build at least a one hundred page site. That’s just for openers. That’s one hundred pages of real content, as opposed to fluff pages like copyright information and about us pages.
2. Domain Name
Easily brandable. You want Google.com and not MyKeyword.com. Keyword domains are out—branding and name recognition are in—big time in. The value of keywords in a domain name has never been less to search engines.
Learn the lesson of Goto.com becomes Overture.com and why they did it. It’s one of the most powerful gut check calls I’ve ever seen on the internet. That took serious resolve and nerve to blow away several years of branding.
3. Site Design
The simpler the better. A general rule of thumb to follow is that text content should outweigh the HTML content. The pages should validate and be usable in everything from Lynx to leading edge browsers. Keep the HTML clean and stucturally sound, it makes it easier for spiders to eat up your content.
Stay away from heavy things like Flash, Document Object Model (DOM), Java, and JavaScript. Go external with scripting languages if you must have them—there is little reason to have them that I can see—they will rarely help a site and actually stand to hurt it greatly due to the many factors most people don’t appreciate, such as search engines’ distaste for JavaScript being just one of them.
Arrange the site in a logical manner with directory names hitting the top keywords you wish to hit. You can also go the other route and just throw everything in root. This is a rather controversial method, but it has been producing good long-term results across many search engines.
Don’t clutter and don’t spam your site with frivolous links. Keep it clean and professional to the best of your ability. Learn the lesson of Google itself. Simple is retro cool. Simple is what surfers want.
Speed isn’t everything, it’s almost the only thing. Your site should respond almost instantly to a request. If you get into even three to four seconds delay until "something happens" in the browser, you are in trouble.
Those few seconds may vary for someone living in a country other than your native one. The site should respond locally within three to four seconds tops! Any longer than that, and you’ll lose ten percent of your audience for every second. That ten percent could be the difference between success and failure.
4. Page Size
The smaller the better. Keep it under 15k if you can. The smaller the better. Keep it under 12k if you can. The smaller the better. Keep it under 10k if you can. I trust you are getting the idea here. Over 5k and under 10k. Yeah, it sucks, and it’s tough to do, but it works. It works for search engines, and it works for surfers.
5. Content
Build one page of content with 250 to 500 words per day. If you aren’t sure what you need for content, start with the Overture keyword selector tool and find the core set of keywords for your topic area. Those are your subject starters.
6. Keyword Density & Position
Simple old fashioned search engine optimization from the ground up. Use the keyword once in the title, once in the description tag, once in a heading, once in the url, once in bold, once in italics, and once high on the page. Try to hit a keyword density of five to twenty percent.
Use good sentences and speel check it. Spell checking is becoming increasingly important as search engines use auto-correction during searches. There is no longer a reason to look like you can’t spell—unless, of course, you really are phonetically challenged.
7. External Links
From every page, link to one or two high-ranking sites under that particular keyword. Use your keyword in the link text, as this is ultra important.
8. Internal Links
Link to on-topic, quality content across your site. If a page is about food, then make sure it links to the fruits and veggies page.
Specifically with Google, on-topic internal linking is very important for sharing your PageRank value across your site. You do not want one "all-star" page that out performs the rest of your site. You want fifty pages that produce one referral each a day, not one page that produces fifty referrals a day.
If you do find one page that drastically out performs the rest of the site with Google, you need to balance some of that PageRank value by moving it to other pages. It’s the old share the wealth thing.
9. Put It Online
Don’t go with virtual hosting. Stick with a hosting plan that offers a static IP address. Make sure the site is "crawlable" by a spider. All pages should be linked to more than one other page on your site, and not more than two levels deep from the root. Link the topic vertically as much as possible back to the root. A menu that is present on every page should link to your site’s main "topic index" pages.
Don’t put it online before you have a quality site. It’s worse to put a "nothing" site online, than no site at all. You want it flushed out from the start.
Go for a listing in the Open Directory Project (ODP). If you have the budget, then submit to Looksmart and Yahoo. If you don’t have the budget, then try for a freebie on Yahoo—but don’t hold your breath.
10. Submit It
Submit the root to Google, Fast, AltaVista, WiseNut, DirectHit, and HotBot. Now comes the hard part: forget about submissions for the next six months. That’s right. Submit it and forget about it.
11. Logging & Tracking
Get a quality tracker that can do justice to inbound referrals based on log files. Don’t use a lame graphic counter, you need the real deal here. If your host doesn’t support referrers, then back up and get a new host. You can’t run a modern site without full referrals available all day, every day, and in real time.
12. Spiderlings
Watch for spiders from search engines. Make sure those that are crawling the full site can do so easily. If not, double check your linking system to make sure the spiders find their way through the site. Don’t fret if it takes two spiderlings to get your whole site done by Google or Fast. Other search engines are pot luck and it is doubtful that you will be added at all, if not within six months.
13. Topic Directories
Almost every keyword sector has an authority hub on its topic. Go submit within the guidelines.
14. Links
Look around your keyword sector in Google’s version of the Open Directory Project (ODP). This is best done after getting an ODP listing. Find sites that have a links page or that freely exchange links. Simply request a swap. Put a page of relevant content and links up for yourself as a collection spot.
Don’t freak out if you can’t get people to swap links. Just move on. Try to swap links with one fresh site a day. A simple personal email is enough. Stay low key about it and don’t worry if a site won’t link with you. Eventually they will.
15. Content
One page of quality content per day. Timely, topical articles are always the best. Try to stay away from to much personal, blogging type stuff, and look more for article topics that a general audience will like. Hone your writing skills and read up on the right style of "web speak" that tends to work with the fast and furious web crowd.
Lots of text breaks. Short sentences—lots of dashes—something that reads quickly.
Most web users don’t actually read, they scan. This is why it is so important to keep low key pages today. People see a huge overblown page, and a portion of them will hit the back button before even trying to decipher it. They’ve got better things to do than waste 15 seconds trying to understand your whiz bang flash menu system. Just because some big support site can run flashed out motorhead pages, that is no indication that you can. You don’t have to do what they do.
Use headers and bold text liberally on your pages as logical separators. I call them scanner stoppers, where the eye will logically come to rest on the page.
16. Gimmicks
Stay far away from "fads of the day" or anything that appears spammy, unethical, or tricky. Plant yourself firmly on the high ground in the middle of the road.
17. Link Backs
When you receive requests for links, check the site out before linking back with them. Check them through Google and their PageRank value. Look for directory listings. Don’t link back to junk just because they asked. Make sure it is a site similar to yours and on topic.
18. Rounding Out The Offerings
Use options such as email a friend, forums, and mailing lists to round out your site’s offerings. Hit the top forums in your market and read, read, read until your eyes hurt because you read so much. Stay away from "affiliate fads" that insert content on to your site.
19. Beware Of Flyer & Brochure Syndrome
If you have an e-commerce site or online version of bricks and mortar, be careful not to turn your site into a brochure. These don’t work at all. Think about what people want. They aren’t coming to your site to view "your content," they are coming to your site looking for "their content." Talk as little about your products and yourself as possible in articles.
20. Build One Page Of Content Per Day
Head back to the Overture keyword selector tool to get ideas for fresh pages.
21. Study Those Logs
After 30-60 days you will start to see a few referrals from places you’ve been listed. Look for the keywords people are using. See any bizarre combinations? Why are people using those to find your site? If there is something you have over looked, then build a page around that topic. Retro engineer your site to feed the search engine what it wants.
If your site is about "oranges," but your referrals are all about "orange citrus fruit," then you can get busy building articles around "citrus" and "fruit" instead of the generic "oranges."
The search engines will tell you exactly what they want to be fed—listen closely, there is gold in referral logs, it’s just a matter of panning for it.
22. Timely Topics
Nothing breeds success like success. Stay abreast of developments in your keyword sector. If big site is coming out with a new product at the end of the year, then build a page and have it ready in October so that search engines get it by December, e.g. go look at all the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii sites in Google right now. Those are sites that were on the ball last summer.
23. Friends & Family
Networking is critical to the success of a site. This is where all that time you spend in forums will pay off. Here’s the Catch-22 about forums: lurking is almost useless. The value of a forum is in the interaction with your fellow colleagues and cohorts. You learn long-term by the interaction—not by just reading.
Networking will pay off in link backs, tips, email exchanges, and it will put you "in the loop" of your keyword sector.
24. Be Social
Social bookmarking and networking sites can be used to your advantage if the content is right. Places like Digg, Delicious, Technorati, StumbleUpon, and so on, can really expose your site to those that truly are interested. Expect some great backlinks and traffic if you use this to your advantage.
25. Notes, Notes, Notes
If you build one page per day, you will find that a brainstorm like inspiration will hit you in the head at some magic point. Whether it is in the shower (dry off first), driving down the road (please pull over), or just parked at your desk, write it down! Ten minutes later and you will have forgotten all about that great idea you just had. Write it down, and get detailed about what you are thinking. When the inspirational juices are no longer flowing, come back to those content ideas. It sounds simple, but it’s a life saver when the ideas stop coming.
26. Submission Check At Six Months
Walk back through your submissions and see if you are listed in all the search engines you submitted to after six months. If not, then resubmit and forget it again. Try those freebie directories again too.
27. Build One Page Of Quality Content Per Day
Starting to see a theme here? Google loves content. Lots of quality content. Broad based over a wide range of keywords. At the end of a years time, you should have around four hundred pages of content. That will get you good placement under a wide range of keywords, generate reciprical links, and overall position your site to stand on its own two feet.
Do those twenty-seven things, and I guarantee you that in ones years time you will call your site a success. It will be drawing between 500 and 2000 referrals a day from search engines.
If you build a good site with an average of four to five pages per user, you should be in the ten to fifteen thousand page views per day range in one years time. What you do with that traffic is up to you, but that is more than enough to "do something" with.
November 6th, 2006 at 03:32 am
These are really valuable tips, and with a realistic timeframe.
I always read about those “become a king in 15 days” or something, that’s just rubbish.
And you are so right about content, content and content ;-)
I just think you should add one thing that you are doing yourself: Add means to get back to your site. RSS feeds, email newsletter, digg/delicious/etc. buttons
November 7th, 2006 at 10:46 am
I agree with all of your points. Very good read.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Moritz: That’s an excellent point. Will be updating shortly :)
November 15th, 2006 at 02:23 pm
Excellent read, I enjoyed it all, and as already mentioned, very reasonable time frame compared to other get-rich-quick type guides.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Stumbled Upon your page. Great points and a great read. Thumbs up. Thanks.
November 16th, 2006 at 01:12 am
I am at a crossroads. I have two site under my charge, one professional, one promotional for a singing hobby of mine. My partner and my quartet are counting on me. I am an experienced computer guy but shy on web site production. The time is upon me to produce and for all the techno stuff I’ve found (and there’s a boat load), this is the first down-to-earth, think-about-this guidance I’ve stumbled upon (yes). I really appreciate some good old-fashioned Dutch-uncling. Thanks, man.
=pat
November 16th, 2006 at 06:35 am
Small, easy to follow-up tips, which will surely help me attract more customers, and help me promote the website of my customers too.
November 16th, 2006 at 01:55 pm
Stumbled on you. Great tips. I saved your page to sacred desktop space. Another suggestion is to create a SWICKI search engine over at http://swickihome.eurekster.com, I just created a Video Jobs search engine in fifteen minutes and getting quite a few hits per day right out of the gates.
November 16th, 2006 at 03:24 pm
You forgot to mention to add a page of content every day!
November 16th, 2006 at 04:04 pm
Dunno about your audience but Google stats on my two highest traffic sites report 17% and 15% dialup users.
I had to check the date of your post that it wasn’t 1998.
November 17th, 2006 at 04:49 am
Good to have it all summed up! Thanks
November 17th, 2006 at 03:14 pm
Nice article, thumbs up ;P
November 17th, 2006 at 06:52 pm
Good to read it, appreciated and thanks for all these!
November 17th, 2006 at 08:20 pm
Stumbled. very valuable read. All the important points of SEO listed on one page, top work!
November 18th, 2006 at 06:45 am
Good work Kyle. I’m just about starting a new site so these points are very useful for me at the moment.
But yes, as Mortiz says, you should mention RSS feeds promoting also because RSS is very important tool nowadays.
But generally great article, I will include it in my “weekend links” at my blog.
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November 18th, 2006 at 07:45 am
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November 18th, 2006 at 08:47 am
“The following will build a successful site in one years time via Google alone.”
You haven’t defined what success is, so how do I know what exactly I am building should I follow your steps?
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November 18th, 2006 at 09:20 am
God stuff, mostly correct. Esspecialy the part about internal Linking is a good point to know.
November 18th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Agree with all the points.
Almost, though. One can still create a great brand using a keyword.
Newsvine.com, for example. And many others.
Also I would add another very important point.
You have to use WebPR (Public Relations) techniques.
Announce the launch of your site with a press-release. There is plenty of info on how to write a good one. Plus, there is plenty of places on the Web that will accept your press-release for free (if your site is of any value for the surfers, not only for you).
Writing and posting content (useful articles like this one, topical forum posts etc.) not only on your site is a great promotion tool.
Also I would mention the offline promotion.
Do not forget that. The ways to do it vary on the topic of your site, but it works.
At least put you site’s URL in your e-mail signature.
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November 19th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
three things:
- you dont have to submit to Google, their crawler is set off every month and it must reach you if you have a new domain (automatically)
- 5k to 10k, is way too little, its an exaggeration, dont you think? this is the ADSL and Leased Lines era, I say it can go smooth with 50K
- dont do google-like sites, their design works because the purpose of it is great and the service they are offering is excellent, their design sucks and hard to follow (for some)
finally, great tips, although you did not specify that this a guide to build a blog rather than a “successful website” because daily content is a trafic-driving ingredient, not service-offering. thanks for the effort.
November 19th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
Mariam,
Some very excellent points. I guess it should be noted that this is an older article, even though the post date doesn’t reflect that. Some of the content has been updated recently on it, but I think a “Part Two” version is definately in order. I’d like to address some of your points.
1. Agreed, the article shows its age, though it’s still not a bad idea to submit your site to the Big Three (Google, Yahoo! and MSN).
2. Agreed as well, that whole age thing again.
3. I partly agree with this. I think usability is very, if not more, important that the visual design of a website. We can argue all day that usability is part of design, but that’s not what I’m getting at.
4. I don’t think this is geared towards a blog actually. It definately does have most of the characteristics of a blog, but this could apply to most websites out there that are supplying information. Unless your website is dynamic and driven by user-submitted content, or it relies soley on a community, then this certainly isn’t geared towards blogs. Alas, I will agree again, and that this is definately not for a service-offering website because of the aforementioned points.
Thanks for the input, and look forward to an updated version of this :)
November 20th, 2006 at 06:48 pm
Good stuff, a lot to keep up with in this space. I found this site via Stumbleupon and from watching my own referrer logs it’s rapidly becoming a real source of traffic. RSS feeds are also really important for building stickiness with your audience. They don’t click on ads much, but they’re more likely to link to you.
November 20th, 2006 at 06:58 pm
Yeah, that’s the one thing everyone keeps mentioning. I’ll come up with a 2007 version of this for sure, this one’s a bit outdated. Thanks :)
November 21st, 2006 at 04:05 am
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November 23rd, 2006 at 05:44 pm
Fantastic site! and great blog. I’ve recently started a project to see if this very idea/concept could really work. I’m charting the progress or lack of it on a regular basis for all to follow because most of the information people get on SEO or SEM is usually out of date before it’s read. The content you give is good and fundamental for search engine organic growth. I’m not sure that one could follow all of them or even be able to create a successful site by following all of them because of the shifting sands nature of search engine in an attempt to keep their business model fresh and allusive! The aim is to follow sound SEO practices and instead of stalking wait for the opportunities to arrive. And arrive they will because of the nature of search engines to occassional return to fundamentals!
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November 25th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
How come I don’t see your site with a Google PR? Doesn’t that give you some respect in Google?
November 26th, 2006 at 12:26 am
Tony,
Probably because divspace went live on the 3rd of November, so it’s only been 23 days. I’m not sure how long it takes for Google to assign a PageRank actually, I guess this will be a good test.
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November 27th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Great advice! As someone new to the internet marketing sector, I will use these tips.
Thank you.
November 27th, 2006 at 03:00 pm
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I’ve build http://f-source.com and have used same principles. To estimate the value of any website I use two indexes - Google PR and Alexa rating. That’s enough. Install search status extension for firefox and you will get them both http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ This site still have 3 month average rank not very big, but look at the 1 week average rank - it is great achievement for such young page.
November 27th, 2006 at 04:25 pm
dm: I was actually surprised by the Alexa numbers. I saw them for the first time about three days ago, and wasn’t even expecting a ranking on there. The reason it doesn’t have a three month average is, well, because the site has barely been up three weeks. But that’s beyond the point, and a good observation on your part. I’m not sure what the PageRank is of this site though.
November 27th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Would posting a content topic on your own blog (linked to from your site) suffice for “adding a new content page”?
November 27th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Well if you’re just going around to other’s blogs and either linking to their articles or taking snippets out from the article, then no, that wouldn’t qualify as new content.
New content would be your own, original work. Sure, you can link to and even display excerpts from other articles you found useful, there’s nothing wrong with that, but to rely on it as a sole means of adding “new content” isn’t going to cut it.
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November 28th, 2006 at 12:29 am
I agree with what you’ve said. Thanks for the tips! :)
November 30th, 2006 at 03:14 pm
I have read the article and the comments. Effect: I’ve just subscribed to your RSS! :)
November 30th, 2006 at 09:03 pm
Kyle wrote: New content would be your own, original work. Sure, you can link to and even display excerpts from other articles you found useful, there’s nothing wrong with that, but to rely on it as a sole means of adding “new content†isn’t going to cut it.”
Yes, I agree with you about your comment. However, keep in mind that some sites are simply organizers of topics out on the web. For example, TechCrunch organizes news and inside information about the latest web2.0 web sites. True, they do have new content, but many people don’t go there to read the poet writing. People go there to learn more about what others are doing. It’s a news site.
Again, I agree with your comments, and this web page is very useful for webmaster hopefuls.
November 30th, 2006 at 09:12 pm
@someoneOutThere: I see what you’re saying, there are many blogs that I visit daily, where they are simply talking about other news or maybe a video, and they’re giving their input. I was under the impression that he was asking about just taking snippets of other websites, or maybe just linking to them (and I see that all the time with divspace) and giving no further input on the matter.
If you’re good at doing that, like what TechCrunch does, then by all means do that. I personally prefer to write about things that interest me and that I’ve learned and then to share that with others.
You can either be the writer, or the one that writes about the writer. Uh, now that just sounded weird 8-)
December 1st, 2006 at 12:22 am
I also stumbled upon your website and find your message to be sincere and honest. Among many things I learned from your message, I see that you recommend out bound links to related sites, not just trying to get incoming links. Hmmm. I’ll have to give this a try. I have also failed at posting content on a daily basis. I’ll have to try this as well. This part will take discipline.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:27 am
Hey! We can’t have two Kyle’s on here :D Yeah, putting up content on a daily basis takes a lot of discipline, but more importantly, you have to devote the time to do it. A lot of people just don’t have the time. Case in point, I haven’t been doing this.
Then again, I never expected this site to take off like it did, I was just putting up random articles that I have written and saved on my computer. I’ve tried to put up blogs before, but I never kept up with it, so I have a bunch of articles on my drive that I need to get up, and a lot more to write!
Besides, I’m working on the redesign right now, I feel that’s more important than the content at the moment.
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December 12th, 2006 at 05:46 pm
I have read the article and the comments. very good.
December 26th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
I’m looking forward to that revised edition when it comes out. :D This is probably my favorite divspace article so far, and I’d like to know which parts are out of date. I’d also be pretty interested in anything else you have to say about the content-writing or visitor-attracting aspect of running a website in future articles.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:16 am
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January 18th, 2007 at 04:47 am
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January 19th, 2007 at 02:00 pm
Thank you so much for that, I’m about to launch a website and that will definitely be very useful
February 6th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Hey thanks,
I read this article a few months ago and you know what, I am starting to see results. My site is starting to attract about 15 uniques daily. Not much, but it is saying something as I started SEO only a couple of months ago.
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May 20th, 2007 at 06:31 pm
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June 11th, 2007 at 06:03 pm
Great tips, thanks! I’m going to print that off and have it beside me as I build my site and update it.
July 9th, 2007 at 02:36 pm
Stumbled… Great article, a real nice read. I’ll be sertenly use a lot of your tips. Tnx Kyle
August 19th, 2007 at 03:37 am
I stumbled upon this article and I like it. The author of this post said that he works in same manner with his clients and that it works. Well, I am looking for someone who can help me develop one site and if the author of this post is interested, please contact me via email.
August 20th, 2007 at 07:37 am
Great article. I found it through stumbleupon. You gave me a lot of nice tips I didn’t know before to help improve my site and all. Thanks.
August 20th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Great article! a lot to pick up from here.
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August 25th, 2007 at 07:21 pm
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August 25th, 2007 at 07:35 pm
Kyle-
Great post. I’ve been using these tips ever since you posted them (quite a while now) and they work, even at a leisurely rate. I can’t believe I was the first to Digg this! Now let’s see how many more unique visits you get from this entry being dugg.
BTW– I like what all you’ve done with Crucial’s Site! MUCH improved over the last design.
-Tom
Coder X Designs
August 25th, 2007 at 08:23 pm
Kyle-
Errr… no wonder I was the “first” to Digg this blog entry. After submitting my comment, I used my “home” key and went to the top of the page to click your “Digg This” button, and since I’m the one and only person to have that particular post number, the page is unique, resulting in a false 0 Digg’s.
Honest mistake but I can’t believe I didn’t catch that before I posted on Digg and blogged it on my own site.
HAHAHAHA!!!
-Tom
Coder X Designs
http://coderxdesigns.com
August 26th, 2007 at 06:33 am
Great article - You’ve listed a lot of good points here.
I wouldn’t worry so much about submitting to search engines though. If you kick off your blog with a bang, and get some nice backlinks, Google will find and crawl you, and if you’re very lucky, you can skip that sandbox/6-month delay. My site was ranking #1 for it’s name after just a week, and it’s starting to appear for other keywords now after 2 weeks. :D (Never submitted it.)
I think having a sitemap may have helped that as well. :)
September 24th, 2007 at 01:09 am
I’d like to point out that a web stats service like GoStats will be able to track all of your referrers. (And will provide more stats features than most log analyzers)
October 28th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I’m sorry, but no website should ever take 12 months. I’m a web page designer, and most of my jobs consist of 2 months work, 3 if it’s all flash, or consists of flash and animations. 12 months gives the site too long until it gets outdated and needs revamping all over again. If I were to pay for someone to build a website for me, if they took longer than 3 months, they’d not get payed and I’d have moved on to another builder by then. All your suggestions are sound on what to do in building a website, and indeed right on the mark, but please don’t tell people it takes 12 months.
November 1st, 2007 at 03:44 am
“That’s just for openers. That’s one hudred pages of real content, as opposed to fluff pages like copyright information and about us pages.”
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November 2nd, 2007 at 05:38 pm
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November 13th, 2007 at 08:45 pm
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November 20th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Great article. Thanks for sharing!
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:11 am
Great list. Another confirmation of the importance of content! Spiders are going to have to develop AI soon: everyone will have quantity of content, but without any quality!
March 6th, 2008 at 05:53 pm
Stumbled upon you through our web hosting company. Great tips, especially the “Beware Of Flyer & Brochure Syndrome”. So true! Wish other web designers would follow that one better.
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