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Building a Successful Web Site
Building a successful web site is not a quick and easy task. To be truly
successful you must generate traffic. Lots of traffic. How do you build traffic? Provide the
content that your audience demands. Fancy scripts that create dancing pigs may be cute, but
dancing pigs do nothing to bring in traffic. Your target audience needs to see you as an expert
in the subject at hand - not an expert in web site development that read a book one time about
the topic being presented.
Establishing yourself as an expert in the field requires commitment. It
takes time to double-check all your facts and triple-check your spelling. Present a few wrong
'facts' or misspell a key term and your credibility quickly fades. You must present more
information and more unique information than anyone else if you intend to maintain your
position as king of the mountain. It becomes a never-ending job to constantly find more
content to feed the insatiable hunger for knowledge that your visitors suffer from. If they
arrive without that hunger, it is your job to create that hunger within them so that they keep
coming back for more...
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The most basic requirement for building a successful website is having a
good host. There are hundreds of hosts out there, but you have to select one that will provide
you the service and support that you need. Make sure that your host provides adequate space and
bandwidth - allowing not only enough room on the server for your site, but allowing enough
traffic to support you once you become successful. You can't use a host that will shut you down
after a few hundred visitors each month. You need to be able to run CGI scripts, and they should
provide several basic scripts such as hit-counters and form-mail. If the host you are thinking
about only provides a handful of mailboxes, or tries charge or even limit forwarding or
autoresponders - RUN. I have used many hosts in the past, but I have moved all my sites - work
and hobby - to ipowerweb. Not only do they provide all the bells and whistles that you need, I
have never seen their servers down. Most importantly, once you get past service and
dependability questions - they're cheap! For about $100 a year you get the works. Find out the
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