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Create a website that will be of interest to your target audience and urge your visitors to take the action you desire.
The most important step toward how to make a website successful, will be to target it for one particular topic.

Select relevant keywords and phrases for each web page. You should use your keywords a few times within your web page, as this will enable the search engines to determine what the website is about.

When you begin adding your content, it is very important that you use the heading and sub title tag with your main title at the top of your webpage.

Be sure to include meta tags between the head tags of your webpage. Search engines will display this description in the search results.

The best display is a web page with a white background and black text, as this will make the text easy to read. Crazy backgrounds will make the text hard to read. Be sure to use a font for your text that is easily read and large enough. Basically, keep it simple, avoid the fancy stuff. Flashy graphics are annoying and so are a sea of banners. Basic also makes loading time quick and limits lagging while images and graphics load.

Be sure to include navigation links on every page, preferably in the same spot on each page, and near the top.

Be consistent with your design and layout. Mixing these can be distracting.

Spelling is very important, so check it over several times for errors, and look for any broken images or links.

Basic pages that should be on every website include: What Your About (your company information,telephone,address, email, etc.), Privacy/Terms/Disclaimer, a combination page, or separate (protects you), Site Map (for the search engines)

Perhaps a feedback form, blog post with enabled comments, ezine subscription form, etc., can be included.

Test the look of your website in “Any Browser” to see how it looks in different browsers.

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Every day, we open the browser, look at new opportunities and find new web sites, ezines and affiliate programs. We scan hundreds of ads, articles and click to new sites.

Perhaps you have your own particular rules set up to follow when you are surfing/browsing the web. I collected certain items to check off before I sign up/submit my information to others.

I always look for contact information. For example: An email, a telephone number, an address and a name.

I ask questions and wait for an answer before I hit submit.

Look for a privacy policy or ask for one. [ This will often give you vital information, such as the length of time in business and credentials.]

Look for excessive spelling errors. An occasional error is normal and can be easily missed and is not something to be   excited about.

If it is an ezine I am subscribing to, I ask for a complimentary copy or check out the archive if they have one.

Page load time is important… If it takes too long to load, we all move on. [An important note: Update your browsers - old browsers do not always display properly and often hang. This is not the web sites fault.]

Easy navigation. Can you find everything without reloading, and clicking the back button a zillion times?

Readable pages… fonts and backgrounds

Oodles of reading may indicate a scheme – do they go around in circles repeating themselves? [This one really ticks me off!] Then scroll way to the bottom of the page… and WHAM..here is where you PAY that outlandish price.

Payment options – go for your gut feeling. I offer PayPal but there are others. Often a business simply is not large enough to offer credit card payment, this does not mean they are not reliable!

Can this business provide a reference if asked?

Outdated links, or broken links indicate updating of site irregularity.  These are just a few points to help you make up your own mind Before you hit Submit.

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Bringing More Traffic To Your Site By Link Building

Link building is the process of building back links to your site(others linking to you). The more back links a site has, the higher it ranks on the search engines. Link building therefore is a mission of all money making webmasters.

Link building methods have changed and a some methods may not work today, due to changes in the industry over time and  extreme abuse. If a building method has been abused too much, then that method will not work anymore.

It is very important to know which link building method works today so that you can spend your time in a most productive way.

Below are some of the today’s links building most popular methods:

Article Submission

Publish your article in article directories. Not only do you gain back links to your site from your published articles, you will get some traffic as a bonus.

Blog Commenting

Find blogs related to your own category and make related comments. Your comments add value to the blogpost. You now have a chance of getting your comment approved and your link can be left in your comment.

Directory Submission

Directory submission is a popular link building method. Some directories charge for submission and there is no guarantee that your article will be approved.There is also a considerable waiting period of perhaps months.

You should look for quality directories where you can submit your site. You can judge the quality of the directories by looking at the number of sites listed, number of back links the directory,etc.

Social Media and Web 2.0 Pages

There are a lot of social media and Web 2.0 sites where you can publish your articles for back links. You should write articles that are relevant to your site and publish them on these social media and Web 2.0 sites with your keywords hyper linked to your own site. a couple of those sites are Blogger and Wordpress.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking offers some traffic depending on where you submit. Maybe making a list and submitting could be of value.

Press Releases

Submitting to press release sites can give you some back links as well.

You have a great list now at your disposal,use it and may you have tons of back links!