How to create your own website

How to Make a Website in 2022
(Step-By-Step Guide)

Are you ready to make a website? Thanks to advances in technology creating a website in 2022 is far easier than it used to be, so easy in fact that we believe ANYONE can build a great looking website for business or personal use, when given the right tools.

You don’t need to know how to code HTML or anything like that. In this guide, I am going to show you the exact steps to take to make a spectacular looking website ready to start getting visitors.

Oh, and don’t forget, if you run into any issues along the way, we have 24/7 phone and chat support ready to help.

Table of Contents

First… Choose a Platform To Build Your Website On

There are many different platforms you can choose from to help you build a website without entering a single line of code.

WordPress, Joomla, Drupal… Just to name a few.

Website building can be fun and easy with a content management platform. You don’t need to be a web designer to build websites.

Choosing a content management system that works best for your needs will make the process a lot smoother and more enjoyable. Do you need an Online Store? A Small Business site, or are you looking to entertain or inform others with a blog or content site?

With over 40,000 websites hosted here at GreenGeeks we have seen our fair share of Websites, and we know first hand what the most popular and simple to use platforms are.

Most Popular Platforms

WordPress

Joomla

Drupal

Magento

WordPress is the Most Popular

As you can see, the most popular (by far) platform to use is WordPress. If you’re new to website development, I suggest using WordPress. It’s the easiest to use and often faster when creating a new website.

There are thousands of free (and paid) themes that you can choose from to set the “Look and Feel” of your website. So no matter how you want it to look, Professional, Personal, Fun, Technical, WordPress is a great option. Some premium WordPress visual builder themes like Divi or Elementor allow you to do web design in a drag and drop fashion.

You don’t need to enter any coding to get WordPress to do what you want. Through the use of themes and plugins, you can quickly develop the perfect site in mere moments. However, it’s also easy to customize if you have coding knowledge. It’s perfect for users of all skill levels. While other website builder solutions exist, they often lack the customizability that WordPress has.

Because WordPress is so popular, finding help for virtually any aspect of the application is easy to come by. Forums, tutorials and more are easily accessible. For example, GreenGeeks has an ever-growing list of “How-Tos” for WordPress covering a wide scope of features.

One of the most important aspects of WordPress is the fact that it’s free. After installing it, you’ll have one of the most powerful and feature-rich systems on the Internet driving your website.

Second… Decide On A Domain Name and Web Hosting Provider

The next step is finding a good web hosting provider and coming up with a good domain name. Both of these elements are vastly important if you want to build a website that is successful.

Choosing A Domain Name – It’s All in the Name

Your domain name is a unique address which points to your content. Think of it like being able to name your house. It’s how visitors will find your site and explore its contents. You need to have a good strategy if you want a successful site.

When coming up with a name, ask yourself:

Coming up with a good name for your website is often fun if not frustrating. Every time you think you have a good one, someone already has it. However, that’s easy to get around with a bit of imagination.

If you find yourself stuck trying to find a name you can try using synonyms in the name. Sometimes abbreviations are effective such as “cdc.gov.”

The important thing to remember is your domain name needs to be representative of your content or business.

Deciding on a hosting plan lays the groundwork for building your site. Think of it like buying a plot of digital real estate to build your online structure. GreenGeeks has plans available that range from maintaining a simple blog all the way to more complex and larger corporate needs.

Don’t worry if you need to expand your plan in the future, we can help you upgrade and scale to your needs. As your website starts to get more and more traffic, you may need to consider upgrading to be able to keep up with the demand.

In this next section I will walk you through the web hosting setup process.

Choose your plan from the options below, and click the Get Started Button.

Pro MOST POPULAR

Premium

Next you will need to enter the domain you have chosen and click Check Availability to double check that is it available.

Note: If you already have a domain name, you can enter it in the box on the right

Then you just need to fill out your account details, Name, Address, Phone number, etc.

In the next section you can choose if you want to pay by the month, yearly, or for the cheapest rate available, 2 or 3 years.

Just be aware, that the single monthly plan will incur an extra setup fee, and does not include the free domain. So I would suggest you go for the 1 year plan at a minimum, or if your funds allow it, go for 2 or 3 years for the best deal.

You can also choose your server location here. The options are United States, Canada or Europe. So you want to choose the one where the majority of your traffic will be coming from. (the closer the server is located to the people who visit your website, the faster it can serve them).

The best Coupon code will automatically be entered for you.

Then you can choose if you want domain WHOIS privacy. This just basically means that as the owner of your domain name, you can set your details to Publicly available or you can keep them Private.

Finally once you have chosen all those options, you need to scroll down and enter your payment information. (you can also choose to pay by paypal by clicking the See more payment options link.

Once you are done there, just click the Button at the bottom that says Create Account & Get Started.

When you have completed the signup process, we will get busy setting up your domain and hosting service, then when they are ready, you will receive a welcome email with all the details you need to login to your account.

Managing Your GreenGeeks Account

When you join Green Geeks web hosting you will receive an email with your Account Manager login details.

You can login to your Account Manager by following the link in the email.

Or by Visiting GreenGeeks.com and clicking the “Customer Login” link at the very top of the site.

Or you can follow the link in the Welcome email you received to: https://am.greengeeks.com

You can login using the username and password you were sent in your email.

Once inside the account manager, you will see your billing info, and the details of the web hosting package you have signed up for.

You can also change your billing info, manage your domain and things like that.

If you have any issues, or questions about your account, you can always ask our 24/7 Live Support team for assistance.

Logging Into Your Website’s cPanel

In order to manage your website you will need to login to your control panel (called cPanel) you can do this by clicking the blue Button that says cPanel Login.

Once inside your cPanel, you will see something like this:

You can use cPanel to do all kinds of things like view your website visitor stats, setup and manage email addresses, and a bunch of other things.

But for now, we are going to focus on installing WordPress.

For this we are going to use a free software program called Softaculous.

You can either type Softaculous into the search bar at the top.

Or you can scroll down to the Software section and click Softaculous Apps Installer

We want to install WordPress, so hover over the WordPress Icon and then click Install

Now this may look a bit complicated, but it is very easy to setup. Most of these options are already filled in for you.

So all you need to do is to scroll down the the Admin Account section.

You will see your Admin username is already set to Admin. You can change this if you like, or leave it as is.

Next you will need to enter a Password and an email address for the account.

Make sure you write down the username and password you chose and keep them in a safe place.

Then scroll down to the bottom and enter your email address again. (this will email you the details of the installation when It is finished)

Then just click on Install.

A few seconds later you will see a Congratulations message, which means wordpress has been installed and your website is ready for you to start customising.

Your New Website

At this point if you visit your domain name you will a brand new (empty) installation of WordPress.

Don’t worry if it looks a bit plain, next we will be installing a theme, which is a design template, which tells WordPress how you want your website to look.

But first, I just want to show you how to login to your website, and get familiar with the WordPress Dashboard.

WordPress has a Backend where you, as the owner of the site can login and manage your website.

In order to get it, you need to go to your domain. Then add /wp-admin to the end and hit enter.

Or you can follow the links in the WordPress Installation Email you received in the previous step.

This should take you to the WordPress Login screen, which will look something like this:

Enter your username and password (you did write that down in a safe place didn’t you?)

Now you will be logged into your WordPress Dashboard:

There are a lot of options in your dashboard, and we have tutorials that cover everything you need to know.

But for now, the main things are Posts, Add New post.

This is where you can add new content to your website, write articles, add blog posts, upload images, videos etc.

Settings: In your settings page, you can set your Site Name, tag line, contact email etc.

Appearance: This is the section you will need to change the look and feel of your website.

You don’t need to be a web designer to change the way your site looks with WordPress. There are over 3,000+ Free themes you can use with wordpress, and then there are more paid options and customisations you can add if you want to take it further. Website building doesn’t need to be a hassle anymore!

Here are a couple of the Themes you can install in just a few clicks.

In order to install a Theme on your website, just click the Appearance tab, then Themes, then click Add New.

Now you should be able to see a bunch of different designs that you can choose from, so scroll through and see if there is anything you like.

You can also use the tabs across the top to get more options, or if you had something specific in mind, use the search themes box up the top right to search.

If you don’t know what you are looking for, you can actually browse all 3,000+ available themes over at https://wordpress.org/themes/browse/popular/

Once you have found a theme you like, you just hover over it, and click Install, then once it has installed, you just need to click Activate in order for it to show up on your website.

Within seconds your whole website will change its appearance to that of your chosen theme.

Creating Your First Pages

WordPress’s content management system makes it easy to create new pages, posts, categories or tags for your site. Publishing a new page or post on your site is as simple as clicking «Add Page» or «Add Post», filling out the necessary fields for the page such as a title and the main text content of your page.

The WordPress visual editor, Gutenburg, makes it simple and easy to create new pages. It is similar to using Microsoft Word in that you can easily change text formatting of a page and upload and insert images with a few clicks of the mouse using the WYSIWYG editor (What You See is What You Get).

Once you have your first page the way you want it, it’s just a matter of clicking «publish» to publish your website’s first page. Adding more pages and posts is simply a matter of repeating this process. For more details on this process read our complete How to Create a WordPress Post and Page guide or check out our WordPress tutorials page.

Marketing your site

Once you’ve created all the main pages of the site it’s time to start promoting it. Social media is a free and easy way to start promoting your site. Sharing news and content updates about your site with your friends and followers on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin is a great way to start promoting your new website.

It is also a good idea to install an SEO (search engine optimization) plugin like Yoast to help you optimize your website for search engines like Google. Plugins like Yoast automatically generate sitemaps for your site so that search engines can find your content quicker. Yoast also helps you to write better titles, meta descriptions and content for ranking better in search. It is important to use the relevant keywords to the topic of your website from early on so you can start benefiting from search engine traffic early on. For more SEO tips check out our article on the top WordPress SEO tips.

You can also submit your site to search engines like Google and Bing using their webmaster tools suites. You can find more information for installing Google’s search console and Bing’s webmaster tools here.

Congratulations, you now have a website setup and live

But there is still a lot more you can do with WordPress.

There are thousands of Plugins and custom edits you can make to make your site do whatever you need it to do. You can also hire a developer to work on your wordpress site if there is something that you can’t do yourself.

At GreenGeeks we have put together a wide range of WordPress tutorials to help you learn the ins and outs of your new WordPress site. You Can Find Them Here.

Operating a website in 2022 is relatively simple. With WordPress driven by excellent hosting, success is only limited by your own motivation. And if you ever need assistance, our support team is experienced and is just a click, call or email away. Get the most out of your online experience and build something you can be proud of.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE

An easy-to-use beginner’s guide on how to build a website!

Why you’ll love this tutorial

Obviously, you’ve landed here because you want to learn
how to build a website from scratch and this simple tutorial will help you out. Here are 3 main reasons why you are going to love this tutorial:

Super Easy

It’s perfect for beginners with no prior web design knowledge and technical skills.

Modern Design

Your website will look gorgeous and extremely trendy with no effort.

Fully Free

There are no subscriptions and trials. Don’t pay to create free website and earn money.

Here are just 3 simple and easy to follow steps on how to make your own website for your business

1. Choose a template

2. Customize your project

3. Publish your website

What is Mobirise?

Mobirise is a web design software created especially for users who lack programming skills and want to know how to make your own website. If you are a small business owner and don’t have time for creating a landing page or just don’t want to waste time hiring web designers to accomplish this work for you, so Mobirise is the best tool for you in this case.

As you’ve already guessed, Mobirise is an offline web design software which sometimes is more beneficial for users rather than using online web design tools.
To get to know Mobirise and how to make your own website with it, we just go through a few simple steps.

How to make your own website in Mobirise

Mobirise has many advantages you will surely figure out when working with it. In order to make it easier for you, we listed all the major points that are convincing enough for you to decide to start working on your first Mobirise-based project:

Creating a website with Mobirise

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE WITH MOBIRISE

1. Choose a template

As mentioned above, Mobirise provides you with many various modern website templates and you will find an appropriate one for your business for sure.
Mobirise supports you with standard themes available for any user that can show you the way how to make your own website for free. Those are:

Mobirise 3

It’s based on Bootstrap 3. It wows you with the beauty and simplicity of fonts, buttons, colors, and other website elements. It enables you to forge super-simple looking pages in no time.

Mobirise 4

One of the most frequently used themes. It’s built on the latest 4 version of Bootstrap delivering pretty much all the features that are sufficient for building a fully functional website.

Mobirise AMP

This theme combines simplicity and responsiveness without losing efficiency and beauty. Fast loading time and focus on the content are the core advantages of using this theme.

Mobirise themes

There is a fair amount of topic-focused themes and templates Mobirise delivers to its customers. All these themes were developed to implement key features that are native to certain working fields and business spheres. Below you will discover the latest templates that will help you learn how to make your own website quickly.

To choose a theme, open the application and head to the right-placed dashboard where you will find the Sites tab. Click on it to make the site projects window roll out and then click on the big plus button with the «Create New Site» caption. Here you see all the themes you currently have at your disposal. More templates are available in the Extensions tab of the afore-said dashboard.

Choosing a Mobirise theme

To start your new project, type its name in the field, choose a theme you like and press OK.

2. Customize your project

Drag and drop blocks

As soon as you got started your whole new project, there will be an empty blank page and an arrow showing at a red round button. When you click on it, the left panel will pop up. Here are separate website sections or blocks. The quantity and designs of blocks can vary depending on the theme you’ve chosen.

Mobirise blocks

If you take a closer look, you will see that all blocks are divided into categories. Those can be present in every Mobirise template as well as appear only in some specific themes.

Almost each and every theme has the following blocks:

In order to place a block on your page, you can just click on it or drag-and-drop it directly where you plan it to be. Fill your web page with different blocks as much as you desire, there are no limitations.

Working with Mobirise blocks

Once all the blocks you need are on your page, you can rearrange them by clicking on the «Drag block» button in the right top corner of the blocks and dragging them up and down the page to fit it in wherever you want.

Design your website

Mobirise provides design settings for each block on your page. For example, you can change the color of your menu, the number of your cards, background images, overlay opacity, top and bottom paddings and more. You are also able to add or remove things from your page like buttons, titles, captions etc.

Moreover, there is the site styles panel with such parameters as global buttons colors, a rounded buttons effect, and scrolling animation. To find this panel, go to Sites and click on the blue Brush button in the top right corner of your project.

Site Styles Panel

Edit the content

With Mobirise you have more design options rather than just settings: you can edit your page’s text and elements directly in the app.

How to edit the content

Write your text instead of theme samples, style it bold or italic, change the font size and type in the above said Site Styles panel with no struggling at all.
Add your own images and videos in the background of blocks, replace pictures in galleries and sliders.

Special features

Mobirise allows you to have some features that are vital for modern websites implemented for free. They work as Mobirise extensions and can be used to make your website function more dynamic.

Instagram Feed extension

Mobirise Extensions

Those are Google Analytics, additional icons, PayPal shopping cart, SoundCloud integration, social feed and comments, cookies alert, and SEO settings.

Look under the hood

If you need a more unique design for your website and have coding skills, you are welcome to edit the code of your pages. For this, you will need the Code Editor extension. This will empower you to edit code snippets of blocks you have on your website and also include additional code to and sections. These features will expand your abilities as to your website’s functionality and design.

Manage pages

Mobirise enables you to add as many pages as you want. Just go into Pages and click on «Create new page». Moreover, you can clone an existing page in order not to recreate a similar looking page from scratch. The same works for projects: you can copy the entire website to make a version in another language, for instance.

In Page Settings, you can conveniently write the page title and description and also change the page URL.

3. Publish your website

The last important thing you care about is putting your website online. Learn here how to publish your website. Mobirise offers 4 options to you in this department.

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Comments

User:
After configuring the website, and programming the FTP, once it uploads to the web the formatting is completely off. I’m sending you a copy of the webpage as it should be in a copy of the webpage as it appears on the Internet. I’ve contacted the Webmaster and they have assured me that everything is, I need to know how to resolve this problem? If you can communicate back as soon as possible?

Mobirise:
Try to re-upload your website on the hosting and make sure that you didn’t miss some of the site files in a process of uploading. Please read this easy website builder tutorial.

User:
Create a website and at the time of publishing, I chose the LOCAL UNIT FOLDER option. You are saving a folder that is being added to HTML, but it is not saved. I do not know if it’s something not my computer. I realize that my computer is blocking the HTML files.

Mobirise:
Please provide more information and related screenshots so we could help you to resolve your problem.
Do you have any error messages? Also, describe step-by-step how are you publishing?

User:
I am experiencing a data distortion between the time that I create a design and publish the design when using Mobirise. The colors that I have selected in the application are not showing the same on the internet after the page is published. Is there anything technical support can do to eliminate the persistence of this problem.

Mobirise:
Try to clean the cache of your browser.
If it won’t help then it seems that some of your scripts/stylesheets weren’t loaded (you can check it in your browser console).
Try to re-upload your website on the hosting and make sure that you didn’t miss some of the site files in a process of uploading.

User:
I’m writing because I used Mobirise to create a website for my University club. I’m now passing off the website responsibilities to another student, however when they use my login information on their computer the website I created is not visible on my account. Is it possible to manage and edit the site from different computers using the same username/ password info?

Mobirise:
It is not possible because all projects are stored locally.
Use export-import features to transfer the projects from one PC to another

User:
Just wanted to know the process of hosting website created by mobirise through godaddy domain. I have purchased domain from go daddy and would like to know how to publish website via filezilla with godaddy domain name

User:
First off, thank you for telling us how to make your own website in this easy way. The colour of my font isn’t updating when I publish the site. It should be black and black is selected in the platform but this title is publishing as yellow. How do I fix this? When you hover over my serves on the selection bar at the top, it automatically goes to this page without the user initiating the click. Thanks for your help.

Mobirise:
Try to clean the cache of your browser. If it won’t help then it seems that some of your scripts/stylesheets weren’t loaded (you can check it in your browser console). Try to re-upload your website on the hosting and make sure that you didn’t miss some of the site files in a process of uploading.

User:
Will it be possible to add a google translator widget onto each page and how will we go about doing that? I would greatly appreciate your assistance.

User:
Hello and thank you for the information above on how to make your own website. I have used your software to build my own website, but i wish i could create something like a blog. Something that wouldn’t be parallax and one page only. Can the software make something like that?

Mobirise:
Mobirise doesn’t offer blogging features, but you can use the front-end design of Mobirise for your blog.

User:
I’ve designed my website using your program, but every time I try to save or publish it I receive an error. Whenever I try to save my site, I notifies me that some files (pictures) are missing. I don’t know what to do about this, because every time I look in the picture library I see all the pictures used for my site. Whenever I try to publish my site, it tells me: error: permission denied. This might be because I have not linked it to a root folder, but I’ve tried different root folders and none of them worked. A couple of weeks ago, I changed the location of the website files to the desktop of my computer. I’m not sure of course, but I’m afraid I’ve created the error by doing this. Might this be the case? Do you know a way to make sure all my files are in the right place (where should I save my files) without losing my whole website? I’m hoping you know what might be the problem and am looking forward to hearing from you.

Mobirise:
Please check your FTP data, also you can try to publish your site with the unchecked option Publish changes only. Try to publish your site to a local folder, and upload it to your hosting, check if you have issues with it. Could you please make sure that Mobirise is able to connect to the Internet directly. Your proxy/antivirus/firewall may prevent it. Also please try to log out and log in again into the Mobirise app (open the Account tab to find the Logout button).

User:
First of all, I’d like to say ‘Thank you so much’ for creating this web building platform for the world and giving people this opportunity to learn how to make your own website. It’s very easy for non-techy users. By the way, I’d like to know how to make multi-languages website and has an icon to switch between languages.

Mobirise:
Sorry, but multilingual site feature isn’t supported. You’ll have to make separate versions of your website. Clone your website with cloning feature and change its content in the required language.

User:
Im using your tool for a few weeks now, its working really nice and it’s insteresting to learn how to make your own website with it. One small suggestion. It would be really helpful if you could search in the blocks that can be added. If i look for an intro or a feature block i always have to scroll trough all the list which takes the most time right now. A second thing, the media view is really slow if i want to add an image to the page it takes half a minute up to a minute until the photo list is displayed. Thanks for the useful tool. Im a developer by myself but always too lazy to bring up pages for my products since they take up such a huge amount of work. this tool helps me to correct this.

Mobirise:
We’ll provide your suggestion to our developers. Thank you for the feedback!

Mobirise:
Thank you for your suggestions. I’ve just forwarded your request to our development team.

How to Create a Website In 15 Mins : Beginners Step By Step Guide 2022

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Revolution in technology

Technology has revolutionized and evolved tremendously in the past decade. Education, entertainment, knowledge, health, social connectivity, Technology and internet together now play a major role in sustaining a balance between all these aspects. Internet has seen an all-time boost with social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc. taking over the ranks. Google and YouTube have redefined the concept of knowledge, success and fame at your fingertips.

Also Read:

The internet has grown faster than ever before and today normal folks like yourself can build your own website for free.

That’s right! Normal folks like us, can build up a website within a matter of minutes. Internet technology has eased up to such an extent now that,

That’s what technology has for us today!

The need for a website

More and more people are taking advantage of these points and creating websites online as a way to express themselves, broadcast their views, sharing knowledge through blogs and even setting and expanding businesses.If you are into promoting your business, then you cannot afford not to have websites as a way of reaching more potential customers.

So moral of the story: There is a need for websites and it’s an easy task to build one on your own.

Table of Contents

Why you will find this website setup guide very useful : How to Create a Website In 15 Minutes : Beginners Detailed Step By Step Guide [2018]

**6 REASONS**

What all you need to build a website?

(PREQUISITES)

Numerous questions may pop up in context to this.

Is building a website an easy task? What all is needed to build a good website? How much money should I invest in to build a website?

But yet, the most important question of them all is,What all do I need to build a website?

Here’s a simple checklist to answer THIS question:

Please note that these are just the basic building blocks to creating a website. You may expand this list further according to your preferences, requirements and comfort. But to make the process even brief and to the point, we can lay our prime focus on the following three steps:

1) Choose your platform

Decide what platform you’re going to build your website with before worrying about anything else. A website building platform, technically called Content Management System (CMS) is a user-friendly platform for building websites and managing your own online content, instead of using a bunch of loose HTML pages.

A CMS in today’s date has made website building accessible to everyone. The most popular and preferred website building platforms today are:

WordPress quite evidently here is the king of website building platforms. There are a bunch of advantages WordPress has over other platforms like Drupal and Joomla that makes it the top preference amongst the masses.

You won’t have to worry about creating a paid account or pay any downloading or installation cost. When I say it’s free,I MEAN IT’S FREE­.

It’s the easiest platform I’ve ever worked with and is flexible enough to suit everyone’s purpose.There’s a huge community who have designed attractive themes, layouts and templates to choose from, making it easy to get going fast.

WordPress has just the right type of free plugins to handle any type of site you wish to create. “Plugins” enable you to add contact forms, subscription forms, image galleries, etc. to your website.

WordPress has the capability to handle lite sized blogs to large scale business websites and online stores. In fact, WordPress is used by large scale sites like eBay, Mozilla, CNN and even NASA.

A website built through WordPress will be responsive and working on smartphones, tablets and every mobile device. So hiring a web developer won’t be necessary anymore.

Perhaps the most important feature that makes WordPress the most preferred website building platform is that you don’t need any technical coding to create a website here.

WordPress provides one of the best search engine optimizations (SEO).Thus, your website will be more likely to attract more customers.

Why only WordPress?

It would be wrong on my part to say WordPress is THE ONLY OPTION to create a website. Choosing a platform depends solely on your knowledge, preference and comfort.

Drupal is a very powerful platform that is popular with web developers and experienced coders, hence you’ll need to have a considerable amount of knowledge regarding HTML coding, etc. I would not suggest Drupal for a beginner.

Joomla is somewhere between WordPress and Drupal in terms of difficulty. It is pretty similar to WordPress and works great for websites. But you’ll need at least a little bit of knowledge on technical coding to make your website work the way you want.

So if you are a beginner, I would suggest you to stick to WordPress.

Domain name & Host

There are 2 important requirements for the basic existence and functioning of your website:

A domain is basically like a “Name plate in front of your house”, that defines the existence of a website.You can choose your domain name by either purchasing your own custom domain name through your preferred website builder, or you can purchase it on your own through online domain registrars GoDaddy or NameCheap.

A host is simply a medium that connects your website to the internet server. Having a hosting server will make sure your website loads quickly and people can access it easily.

Bottom line:

Where do I get my domain name and hosting?

Now there are numerous reliable sites on the internet from where you can get your Domain name and hosting, but my personal preference would be www.Bluehost.com

Once you get a domain name and hosting, you’ll also get a personal email account(s): [email protected] specifically for your website.

You can definitely try other web hosting providers and even try to host your site by yourself, but that may turn out to be a pretty complicated and time consuming process. Hence it would be rather better for you to save some time and money and get a proper host that meets your Website requirements.

How to pick my domain name?

The most important thing to keep in mind while choosing a domain name is to KEEP IT SIMPLE. Try thinking of a domain name that justifies and reflects the purpose and idea of your website.

Please do remember to secure your domain name and web hosting before you continue with your website setup. This can easily be done through www.Bluehost.com

Set up and customize your website

One you are through with Step 1 and Step 2, let’s get your website running. To make this happen, you’ll need to install WordPress to your domain.

This can be done in two ways.

#1 “One-click installation”

Bluehost.com and other similar hosting websites have integrated “One-click installation” options to make for a quick set up.

#2 Manual installation

In case some hosting site does not provide the “One-click installation” option, then there is always a plan B for you. Manual installation is also possible if you are unable to go for the ”One-click”.Here’s a brief guide on how to go ahead with it:

Now, let’s get started with the login process.

Initial customization of your website’s appearance.

I’ll be getting into the details regarding other menu options later. But for now, let’s jump straight to the customization of your website.

Now that your theme is installed and applied, you are ready to start adding contents and posts to your newly set website.

How do I create and edit pages?

The WordPress platform allows you to add pages to your website according to the purpose.Be it a “Services” page, “About me/us” page, “Contact me/us” page, “Contents” page, etc., all can be added to your website.

Menu appearances

The appearance of your menu plays a crucial role in the overall appeal of your website. It’s often one of the first few things that the viewer notices. An important thing for you to keep in mind is maintaining a nice balance between creating captivating contents and it’s availability in the menu bar. If your visitors can not find it easily on your site, they may just leave the site after viewing just one page.

Your menu may include any page like a “Services” page, “About me/us” page, “Contact me/us” page, etc. You can add the menu to your website on the top or the side or even at the bottom, as long as it’s easily accessible to the visitor.

You should make sure that your menu:

How do I add pages to the menu?

On WordPress, you even have the option of linking pages to your navigation bar. All you need to do is:

How do I add and edit posts for my website?

That was all about pages and the menu bar. Now let’s learn how to add some posts to your website and edit them.

This thing is not really too complicated. The first thing you’ll need to do is decide the category of the post you are about to write.

How do I add media to my posts?

Adding media to a post makes it more attractive and catchy. It is always important to add relevant photos and videos that support your post. This allows viewers to relate to your post and understand it better.

In WordPress, you can either add media from Posts or you can add media directly to the media library.

It is important to add an image title, a caption and description to the image. But it’s even more important to add an “Alt text” to it. This helps search engines identify your images.

Further customizations and tweaks.

Now let’s get in to some general technical customizations for your website. These are some basic settings that you may need to alter every now and then according to your preferences and situations.

Page title/Site title

A page title can be quite easily defined or understood as an identity for your website. It plays a major role in conveying what your website is all about to the viewers in as simple as one line.

You better be sure of using the appropriate keywords to define your website. Make sure to keep it SIMPLE, SHORT AND DIRECT.

Taglines

A tagline is added to the page title to simply add a little gesture or meaning to it.

NOTE:To make changes in the page title and tagline, just go to “Settings”, then “General”.

Backgrounds

An attractive website background always calls for more visitors. If you want your website to create a nice visual impact on the viewers, then you can use a nice attractive background image. If you want to emphasize the readability of your website, then you can simply opt for a plain color which is appropriate for any blog.

Installing plugins: Why is it important?

Before learning how to add plugins to your website, you should know what a Plugin is and what it really does to your website.

Plugins are basically codes or scripts that enable a website to perform various functions. If you want to add more features and functions to your website, then adding plugins is a must. These are simply extensions that allow you to expand the functionality and enhance the capabilities of your website. They are shortcuts to getting your site to do what you want to.

Plugins are used for almost everything from adding photo galleries and submission forms to optimizing your website. If you are creating an online store, then plugins are a must to maintain the proper functioning of your website.

How do I add a new plugin?

To start adding new plugins, you will first need to install plugins. Simply go to “Plugins”, then “Add new” and start searching. The WordPress platform offers you over thousands of plugins to choose from. So once you have found the plugin you like, just click on “Install”.

Let me brief you about some of the most popular plugins that are used by website developers today. This list should definitely save you some valuable time.

This plugin allows your visitors to stay in better contact with you with their doubts and queries. They can fill in the form and send you an email without logging into their own email provider.

This plugin proves to be a very important tool if you are interested in tracking the visitors/traffic to your website. All you will need to do is install the plugin and link it to your Google account.

This plugin enables you to edit your title tags, meta descriptions and more, all from within the page itself.

Helps you create an automatic backup for your website or blog. It offers you 1 GB of free cloud storage to store your backups.

Optimize the speed, performance and functionality of your website. It also provides you with some advanced control options.

Add share buttons for social media like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. which will be very important for publicity of your website to various social media platforms.

Disqus helps manage your posts when a large amount of comments drop in. It also provides a voting system for displaying the top comments.

This plugin simply helps redirect broken pages back to your homepage.

Comments

Allowing your readers to comment on your posts is a very important point. This will let you know how good or bad your post is, or how much your audience can relate to it. Though hardly one percent of the website traffic will ever comment on your posts, but it is necessary to provide them with the option to do so.

Doing so will help you clear their doubts and queries. It’ll even provide you with a scope to improve on your future posts, if your readers share their point of views. An existing comment history on any of your previous post allows audiences to easily decide how good or bad the article is.THIS is another useful way to stay in touch with your readers.

Access to settings regarding comments can be easily found in the WordPress menu.

How often should you update your website?

Every website requires to be updated frequently with the latest in technology and trends. This needs to be done on a regular basis to attract more customers and revenue. This includes a range of minor changes like color, themes, backgrounds to some major ones like changes in logo, contents, user interface, website plugins and SEO. Such changes can be simply done by you and you will not need to hire a programmer for this.

Redesigning and optimizing your website also greatly depends on the type of audiences you are dealing with. People are always welcome to something new and attractive. Enhancing a website is often like playing with the mind of the audiences. If your customers complain about your site, claiming that it looks outdated or doesn’t work well, then it may lead to high bounce rates and decline in traffic.

Redesigning a website does not necessarily mean rebuilding it from scratch. It simply means useful changes and facelifts. The best way to explain this idea is to follow the lead of sites like Apple.com and Amazon.com, which rarely undergo complete facelifts. These sites evolve over time using an iterative process that results in near invisible refinements that yield the best results that are appreciated globally.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs) and relevant doubts To Create A Website

Which website builder do you recommend for a startup or a small business?

If you are a beginner, I would suggest you to stick to WordPress. It is the easiest platform I’ve ever worked with and is flexible enough to suit everyone’s purpose.It’s free, easily customizable and you don’t need any technical coding to create a website here. WordPress is the best choice for startups and small scale businesses. It is even used by large scale sites like eBay, Mozilla, CNN and even NASA.

How much does it cost to build a website?

Can I build a website with no design and coding skills?

Absolutely! Internet technology has eased up to such an extent now that, you don’t need to be an IT engineer or some tech junky to build a website.You can even build a website without proper coding or ABSOLUTELY NO CODING!

Do I need to hire a website designer or developer?

Website developers are usually hired to make your website work on mobile devices as well. A website built through WordPress will be responsive and working on smartphones, tablets and every mobile device. So hiring a web developer won’t be necessary anymore.

People keep telling me to use WordPress. What do you think?

WordPress is the most user friendly and flexible website developing platform you will get to work on. There’s a huge community who have designed attractive themes, layouts and templates to choose from, making it easy to get going fast.It has the capability to handle lite sized blogs to large scale business websites and online stores.

So if you are a beginner, or if you prefer not to invest a lot of time and money into building a website, WordPress is your best shot.

Which is the best website from where I can get my domain name and hosting?

How do I choose the right theme or background?

If you want your website to create a nice visual impact on the viewers, then you can use a nice attractive background image. If you want to emphasize the readability of your website, then you can simply opt for a plain color which is appropriate for any blog. You can choose Thrivthemes for your blog to make it more pleasing.

How good is GoDaddy to get my domain name and hosting? What do you suggest?

GoDaddy is well regarded as a domain name registrar but not a hosting provider. Their domain management is good, but I would think twice to join them for hosting.My personal preference would be Bluehost.com for both, domain management and hosting services.

Why should I optimize my website? Won’t it be enough if I keep posting regular contents on it?

Yes, you can! But updating and optimizing your website on a regular basis will help attract more and more visitors. This needs to be done if you wish to get the most out of your website and generate revenue. If your customers complain about your site, claiming that it looks outdated or doesn’t work well, then it may lead to high bounce rates and decline in traffic.

What kind of media files can I upload in my posts through WordPress?

Here’s a full list of supported files that can be uploaded:

Images

Documents

Audio

Video

I have made this tutorial for Keyword research tool Kwfinder and you can see detail video here to find keywords for your niches.

Why should I add advertisements to my website and posts?

Once your website is up and running, you should know how to earn money from it. Generating money from your website will be hard work, hence you have to let it earn you some money by displaying advertisements of other companies. This is highly recommended and useful for website owners because the revenue earned can be useful as you can choose to invest it into your website’s modification or even into your other projects as well.

What is Google AdSense?

Google AdSense is seemingly one of the largest advertising networks, preferred by the largest percentage of website owners. Through AdSense, Google allows users to set up advertisement banners on their website and have the ads generated off the content of each page. These ads reflect the content on your site. This is technically called targeted advertising, which helps in placing content relevant advertisements on your website.

How are sponsored contents different from traditional ad links?

There are a considerable percentage of readers know what areas of a website to avoid if they don’t want to see ads. Sponsored contents are different from the traditional ads as they do not use up your screen space that usually traditional advertisements do. This method works at targeting those section of audiences who like to keep the focus on the content without distracting them with web ads. Engagement rates tend to be higher, which equals more value which further ensures more revenue.

Why is it important to target a content specific audience through a niche website?

A niche website is to present its visitors with relevant content that addresses precisely what they are looking for. If you offer your audience with the exact information and posts they are looking for, then it will result in higher engagement rates, which results in a rise in website traffic, subsequently leading to more revenue. Be careful of choosing a specific and focused keyword term for your niche site. This is clinical because target specific audiences are searching for more specific terms and are already more certain of what they want and need.

Does creating a niche website require a different type of set up process?

No! A niche website is just another type of website which requires a basic set up platform, domain name, hosting and customizations. Once you’ve set up these things, it’s your choice to make it a niche website or an online store. The only thing you need to keep in mind while creating a niche site is choosing a straight keyword to target a specific section of audiences.

How much do I need to invest in making a niche website?

You have to spend just as much as you would have to spend on creating a blog or online store. By this I mean, investing in buying a domain name and hosting. Visit Bluehost.com to check out the most reliable and reasonable domain and hosting prices.

Which plugins would you recommend me to install for my niche website?

Installing and adding new plugins depends on what functionalities and features you want in your website. But these are some basic plugins which I would recommend you to install:

What is Affiliate marketing? How is it important for a website?

Affiliate marketing is a way of advertising products and services through websites. Affiliate programs are networks in which you select from various advertisers. A few of the major search engines offer programs for advertising and promoting an affiliate product on your site. These ads are relating to your content and mostly are of interest to your readers.

When you promote or advertising the merchant’s product or service offerings and a consumer purchases a product/service from the brand based on your promotion, you get paid a revenue share of the sale that you helped generate.

This is an important and one of the most preferred ways of monetization through a website. The revenue generate can be used in optimization of your website or for miscellaneous projects.

Is it free for signing up for an affiliate program?

Yes! There is no cost for signing up to promote a brand through an affiliate program. You can choose to sign up for as many programs as you want across any affiliate network at absolutely no cost.

Which companies or brands offer affiliate programs?

There are countless well established companies that offer affiliate programs, ranging from large retailers like Target, Adidas, eBay, etc. to even small scale and niche retailers. Over 70% brands worldwide utilize affiliate marketing to drive sales.

What is an RSS feed?

An RSS feed is a system that allows your site to be easily and automatically updated based on the banners, links, and products you display. It is something similar to a self updating management system.

What is EPC? How is it useful?

EPC stands for Earnings Per Hundred Clicks. It is a variation or extension of the Cost-per-mille type of advertisements. This works according to the amount of times the ad is displayed on your website. For every 100 times the ad is clicked, you get paid. This is sent to the merchant as an apples-to-apples way to measure performance. It takes into account purchase price, commission and cookie.

What types of products can be promoted?

Affiliate marketing works great for any types of online services, as well as for companies and websites who heavily rely on the Internet to sell their products. An important rule to keep in mind is choosing the types of products you should promote. Some of the popular services that rely on affiliate marketing strategies are Web hosting, online training programs and webinars, various types of software, paid subscription services and other products and services.

Affiliate marketing works the best for niche websites that focus on a specific section of audiences with targeted preferences.

Are there any general rules involved in Affiliate marketing?

Disclosing your website activities and information to the merchant are advertising network is the most important rule to keep in mind. You should be prepared to supply your advertising partners with information about your business and your site traffic. The more details and information you can give them regarding your business and website, the more likely they’ll be to consider your offer.

You also need to make sure that the product links are described in simple language, so that the information is not mistaken or misleading for your visitors.

How can I manage affiliates through my website?

Managing functions and activities on your website depends on the plugins you have installed. There are various plugins that help in managing all your affiliate program needs. WP Affiliate is a great plugin for doing so. It allows automatic affiliate registration, management and payments. It also enables stable integration with WooCommerce, WP Shopping Cart, eShop and a number of other e-commerce platforms.

E-junkie is also another popular alternative. This plugin provides several payment options, autoresponder, newsletter and updates, customized emails and a lot of other useful options. Some other popular advertisement management tools are iDevDirect, JROX and Clickbank.

Which are the most popular Affiliate networks I can sign up with?

Some of the more popular networks are ClickBank, LinkShare, ShareaSale and Commission Junction.

ClickBank provides users with access to thousands of affiliate programs in almost any niche you can think of. Their network is popular because of its high commissions, mostly ranging between 50% and 75%.

LinkShare gives users and publishers access numerous popular affiliate programs, including Buy.com. The network promises commissions of up to 20% and gives affiliates a lot of useful tools.

What is an SEO? How is it important?

SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” It is the process of getting traffic to your web site from the search results on search engines. Major search engines like Google, Bing, etc. have primary search results, where web pages and media contents such as images, videos, Gifs, etc. are shown and ranked on the basis of what the search engine considers most relevant for its users.

If you have a web site, blog or online store, or are planning to build one, then SEO can help your business grow and meet the business objectives. It is good for the social promotion of your web site. Users who find your web site through search engines like Google or Yahoo are more likely to promote it on Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels. This eases the expansion of your web site and brings it into the reach of other users faster.

Users are always more likely to trust the web sites that show up in the top 5 positions of the search results for the keywords they are searching for. If two web sites are selling the same product or service, the search engine optimized (SEO) web site is likely to attract more customers and make more sales and earn better revenue. So SEO can put your website right ahead of your rivals when it comes to competition.

What can I do to get more incoming links for SEO of my web site?

The most important thing I would recommend is that you should forget about building links and concentrate more on creating good quality and relevant contents for your web site. A good content is always more likely to get you natural links, which in turn will give you good ranking and increased web site traffic.

I would really suggest you NOT TO TRY to buy links or get them the easy way. If you do so, you may have some temporary or short lived success and then experience high bounce rates and see your web site disappearing from the top pages after the next Google update.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Since SEO is the most crucial part of optimization of your web site, I have decided to write a separate section on this.

SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” It is the process of getting traffic to your web site from the search results on search engines. Major search engines like Google, Bing, etc. have primary search results, where web pages and media contents such as images, videos, Gifs, etc. are shown and ranked on the basis of what the search engine considers most relevant for its users.

If you have a web site, blog or online store, or are planning to build one, then SEO can help your business grow and meet the business objectives. It is good for the social promotion of your web site. Users who find your web site through search engines like Google or Yahoo are more likely to promote it on Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels. Search results shown are ranked on the basis of what the search engine considers most relevant for its users. Users are always more likely to trust the web sites that show up in the top 5 positions of the search results for the keywords they are searching for.

When it comes to competition, SEO can put your web site right ahead of your rival. To be more elaborate, if two web sites are selling the same product or service, the search engine optimized (SEO) web site is likely to attract more customers and make more sales and earn better revenue.

Main stages of SEO process

SEO is not a static process, but it is rather a framework with various rules and processes to be followed and executed carefully. To make it brief and understandable, I have broken down the SEO process into 2 major stages:

On-site SEO deals with what rules are to be applied on your web site to make it search engine friendly. These are simple and basic tweaks that you can apply to your web site and increase its visibility on search engines. If followed correctly, it will also improve the usability and credibility of your web site or blog. Your web site structure and the SEO are all you need to take care of to help search engines trust your web site.

Off-site SEO focuses on how to promote your website or blog so that it can rank better in search results. For better understanding, you may also think of Off-site SEO as “link building” or “web site promotion”. This is because a proper way to promote a website involves much more methods and techniques along with building links.

As a traditional process, search engines are always trying to find the most important pages of the web and show those first instead of the direct home page of the web site when a user enters a search query.

One main factor that determines the position a web page will appear in the results is the number of incoming links. Incoming links are a signal of trust. They can greatly affect your ranking position depending from where the links are coming from. This can work positively, if the links are coming from well-known and trusted sites or negatively if they are paid links, article directories, link farms, etc.

Some helpful guides

Make Money With Best High Paying Hosting Affiliate Programs

Best High Paying Affiliate Marketing Programs/Networks

How to build a niche website?

What is a niche site?

A niche website is a site that focuses on a narrow group of audiences and readers in a larger market with a common specific interest, which basically means that this kind of a website works best at targeting a specific section of the audience. These kinds of websites are usually capable at attracting high website traffic as it can easily satisfy the visitors with one common and targeted interest.

How is it different from other websites?

While targeting a very specific term that people use on search engines, a niche site offers its visitors helpful and quality content that answers a question or solves a problem and doubts. The primary goal of a niche website is to present its visitors with relevant and quality content that addresses precisely what they are looking for. The fact is that more focused topics will earn you more money.
Being specific is your best bet!

Here is a brief list of popular niche websites that will help you understand the concept and importance of a niche website.

Since hosting is one of the most important aspects in creating a website, I chose to keep this on top of the list. The main premise of WhoIsHostingThis.com is a tool to look up what hosting provider any website is using.

This is another hosting review site which follows a more traditional approach of creating great and relevant contents.

A website to review and compare the best website building platforms.

An online website for reviews on gadgets and electronics.

An online survival and health guide for new moms.

One of the best websites for online comparison and reviews for digital cameras.

One of the few best known websites for reviews on iOS and MacOS apps.

BestVPN is a website dedicated to internet security and privacy. They primarily focus on VPN (Virtual Private Networks) Reviews.

One of the biggest and most trusted place for outdoor product reviews.

One of the best websites on Blogging, passive income, and online business

Importance of a niche website

The most important thing you need to keep in mind while creating a niche site is to carefully choose a specific and focused keyword term. This will help your contents and post to be more specific and fall in front of a specific section of audiences. Going after larger, broader markets is not going to work for you. You need to work your brain like Einstein to choose the appropriate SEO for your website, which specific and relevant at the same time.

Doing so will help search engines recognize your website when that SEO is being searched for, because target specific audiences are searching for more specific terms and are already more certain of what they want and need.

The idea of a target specific niche website is most popularly followed and used by online medical blogs with specific area of focus, online educational blogs, scholarship programs, tech blogs with specific area of focus, health and fitness blogs, etc.

How to create a niche website?

The building and initial set up of a niche website is easy and pretty basic. It’s set up and designing process is pretty much similar to building a normal website that focuses on larger audiences. The basic and important steps that need to be focused on are:

Setting up the blog

As mentioned throughout this website set up guide, the best and most preferred platform for the basic setup is WordPress. Visit Bluehost.com for the best domain name and hosting management. Bluehost offers you cheaper hosting options and a free domain name.

Next big thing to keep in mind while setting up is to choose straight and relevant keywords (SEO). A specific and to the SEO keyword is what distinguishes a niche site from a regular website.

Plugins

Plugins are codes or extensions that enable a website to perform various functions. If you want to add more features and functions to your website, then adding plugins is a must. These help expand the functionality and enhances the capabilities of your website. So choose and install the right plugins to get your site to do what you want to.

I would recommend these following plugins for a niche website:

Setting a theme/template

WordPress has a huge community who have designed attractive themes, layouts and templates to choose from. If you want your website to create a nice visual impact on the viewers, then you can use a nice attractive background image. If you want to emphasize the readability of your website, then you can simply opt for a plain color which is appropriate for any blog.

Niche contents

As mentioned, a niche website provides readers and visitors with the relevant and specific information they are looking for. You can hire and outsource people to create the contents or even choose to write the contents on your own, depending on your knowledge, ability and understanding of what your audiences want. You are any content writer should be able to produce content that people are looking for.

Presentation is the key when it comes to niche contents. A content creator must know exactly what people want to know and how to present it to them. You can create a list of questions, concerns and relevant topics. Some of this can come from common sense or based on further related keyword research. You can also create some after researching from other competing websites.

Advantages of building a niche website

The entire process of setting up the domain and hosting, the WordPress blog,

configuring the plugins and uploading the theme took a total of about 1 hour. Researching for topics and adding contents took roughly another 3 hours.

Specific audiences are always searching for more specific terms and are already more certain of what they want and need. Using straight and specific keywords will enable search engines to narrow their search and fetch faster results.

A niche site can be a fantastic form of passive income. If done correctly, you can get to a point where you can set up your niche site and have it run virtually on autopilot while you collect earnings.

Target specific keywords and SEOs reduce competition and narrows search results. Thus readers get selective websites to choose from, resulting in higher traffic and more revenue.

BLOGS

A blog can quite simply be defined as a platform through which people share and express their opinions, views, experiences and knowledge to a large or specific section of readers. Blogging has gained much popularity and has become an online diary for thousands of people. It has also had crucial impacts on the worlds of politics, business, and society with their contents.

People and businesses are recognizing the power of bloggers as online influencers. Businesses have taken up blogging as an aid to reach the masses and promote their products virally on and through the internet. Small businesses and start ups considering blogging as one of the primary means to earn more business leads and market reputation. Interesting blog contents are one of the top 2 reasons why people follow brands on social media.

Today over 30% of marketers and companies around the globe believe that blogs are the most important type of content marketing. When it comes to consumer satisfaction, around 80% of consumers today enjoy reading relevant contents from brands and companies and learn about a company through blogs and articles rather than ads.

When it comes to advertising and promotion of brands, blogging and social media networking together provide a huge push in attracting potential consumers and dishing out sales, leading to a boost in market revenue. Research and surveys reveal that around 12 million people across the globe blog on social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, etc. out of which, over 6.5 million people across the globe themselves blog on blogging sites.

If taken seriously and propagated in the right direction with sincere brain storming and research for reliable and valuable contents, blogging can earn you huge amounts of readers, customers, recognition and revenue over time. Here is an updated list of the top 10 highest earning blogs in the world.

A blog is just another type of website that requires the basic set up requirements that I have take you through in this guide so far. If you are planning to create a blog, then you must be aware of the different types of blogs that exist today. Each blog has its own set of unique selling points (USPs) that help it exist according to the changing trends and technologies in today’s world. Here is a short list of the 10 most popular types of blogs that exist today.

Blogs which post contents that are sharp, honest and to the face, whether in favor of the issue or against it.

Blogs where you act as a host for publishing posts that mainly came from guest authors.

Blogs that simply test and review different strategies, techniques, and tools.

Blogs that lay their stress on hyper-specific topics and issues rather than focusing on broad topics like leadership, marketing, sales, etc. to target a group of readers with common specific interests.

Blogs that simply give away useful free bonus content with every post. These additional pieces of content are created for a specific blog posts and are given away in exchange for an email address.

Blogs that simply write posts that help or guide readers with their personal or professional lives. Contents of such a blog can be on various topics like personal development, educational guidance, life coaching and so on.

These are any kind of blogs that take its readers on a journey of over 2,500+ words in content. Such blogs most commonly focus on topics and issues related with health & fitness, Fashion & lifestyle, Educational coaching, Spirituality, technological guides, Step by step guides and so on. What you are reading RIGHT NOW is a homer guide.

These are the type of blogs that frequently writes posts featuring exciting facts and details as a part of some highly valuable information/lessons learned. Such kind of blogospheres are a hub for experienced bloggers who have massive expertise and knowledge in that topic. Bloggers here dig deep into what they research and come out with fascinating experiences and observable results for their readers.

These are the type of blogs which those people use who are seeking to position themselves as experts in a particular field. It comes in very handy when you are building a brand. A personal brand blog always represents you as the person who writes the blog or ”THE BRAIN BEHIND THE WORK”. These blogs usually brand your name and face all over the home page.

An enterprise blog is a blog created for a company rather than a particular individual. A team of writers are employed in to create content that is valuable to the section of audiences that the particular company is targeting. This helps in then attracting those potential customers to the website.

How to earn money from your website?

Now that you have your website up and running, you should know how to earn money from it. Generating money from your website will be hard work. The revenue earned will be useful and you can even choose to invest it into your website’s modification or into your other projects as well.

It is insanely important that your monetization methods evolve with the latest technologies and trends. If you want to monetize your websites effectively, it’s essential that we stay up-to-date with the current web and social trends. Let me brief you about various ways to earn revenue from your website.

Each advertiser pays differently and you are paid when visitors click on an ad. This is the most popular type of advertising.

This works according to the amount of times the ad is displayed on your website. For every thousand times the ad is displayed, you get paid.

Benefits:

Drawbacks:

This type of ad requires your visitor to not only click on the ad but purchase an item or sign up for a service.

This is a terrific way of monetizing your website without using up your screen space eaten up by advertisements, for those that like to keep the focus on the content without distracting the user with web ads. Such contents can deliver relevant, useful, high-quality content, and then relevant content equals higher engagement. Higher engagement equals more value, and more value equals more revenue.

Affiliate programs are networks in which you select from various advertisers. A few of the major search engines offer programs for advertising and promoting an affiliate product on your site. This way, the ads are relating to your content and mostly are of interest to your readers.

Over 70% brands worldwide utilize affiliate marketing to drive sales.

Benefits:

Drawbacks:

Unlike the traditional web ads, subscription contents can generate high income Subscription based contents means paywalled content like online courses, ebooks, downloadable goodies and so on.

Email advertising

Email advertising can be further classified into two categories. Sponsored content and traditional display ads. Email advertising doesn’t eat up any unnecessary screen space on your website and in fact engagement rates tend to be higher. This helps in a big way as a considerable percentage of readers know what areas of a website to avoid if they don’t want to see ads. You can also choose to make Direct email promotions, to deliver free reports that are monetized.

Benefits:

Drawbacks:

You can Sign up with an advertiser-publisher connection program like BlogAds or AdBrite, and get listed in their publishers’ directory.

Benefits:

Drawback:

How do I get ads on my website?

Once you own a website, you can also let it earn you some money by displaying advertisements of other companies. There are many websites and companies which offer you the option of displaying their advertisements on your website. This helps publicize and promote their company and your website as well. Relevant ads and promotions also help search engines recognize your website. Each time somebody clicks on the ads that are displaying on your website, you get paid a certain sum of money or commission.

How do I get paid for advertising on my website?

To get paid for advertising on your website you need to do a little research into your target audience. This well help you analyze and plan accordingly, what kind of advertisement companies you should tie up with and what kind of visitor traffic you want to attract to your website.

Tying up with “Pay-per-click” contextual ad programs will enable you to get paid per click from these types of contextual networks. Each advertiser pays differently and you are paid when visitors click on an ad. Here is a list of the most commonly preferred contextual ad programs:

Joining Affiliate programs is one of the most popularly preferred ways of earning money through advertising. As mentioned before, Affiliate programs are networks in which you select from various advertisers. A few of the major search engines offer programs for advertising through them as well. Determine which kind of advertising you want to do.

Well targeted ads like these are more likely to bring you revenue if they are something your audience wants may be interested in. For example, how do you think it would help, if you advertise beauty products on your tech website?

Once you’ve chosen the right type of advertisement you need for your website audience, you will need to place the ads on your website. Just choose a banner style or text style ad. Banner ads are permanent ads that stay in a fixed position on your website, while text ads are temporary.

More website revenue requires more website traffic. Apart from promotions and placing advertisements on your website, you can also conduct web seminars (Webinars) and online workshops relating to your business. This will help establishing the credibility of your website and help companies and ad programs build trust with your business. Some tools that you can use to easily create this include WebinarJam, Easy Webinar and WebinarAlly.

NOTE:

“WordPress is a highly customizable website building platform. It will be easy for you to get a hold of all the useful settings and requirements for running your website smoothly.

Creating a website and generating revenue is hard work. Keep updating, improvising and optimizing your website on a regular basis to attract more and more visitors.”

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Over To You: Finally YOU CAN MAKE A WEBSITE AND EARN MONEY

So I hope this detailed guide on how to make awebsite under 15 minutes will help help you to get started in blogging and it will help you to achieve lot of success through blogging.

Jitendra Vaswani

Jitendra Vaswani is a Digital Marketing Practitioner & international keynote speaker currently living digital nomad lifestyle and founder of internet marketing blog BloggersIdeas.com & Digital Marketing Agency DigiExe. During his more than 8 years long expertise in Digital Marketing, Jitendra has been a marketing consultant, trainer, speaker and author of “Inside A Hustler’s Brain : In Pursuit of Financial Freedom” which has sold over 20,000 copies, worldwide & contributor of “International Best Selling Author of Growth Hacking Book 2”. He had trained 10000+ digital marketing professionals till date and has been conducting Digital marketing workshops across the globe. His ultimate goal is to help people build businesses through digitization make them realize that dreams do come true if you stay driven. Investor in Imagestation Newsmartwave . Check out his portfolio( jitendra.co). Find him on Linkedin, Twitter, & Facebook.

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Not sure how to create a website? You’re not alone.

Making a website can be confusing.

When there are thousands of different ways to create a website, how should you do it?

Should you use a website builder? If so, which one? Do you need to learn how to program? Should you pay a web designer to create a website for you?

If you’re not careful, you could easily waste time and money creating the wrong type of website.

Thankfully, creating a website doesn’t have to be complicated or costly.

Sound good? Let’s dive in.

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1. How to Build a Website for Ecommerce: Shopify

Best for: Ecommerce businesses that sell or dropship products online.

Plus, some of the biggest brands in the world use the Shopify ecommerce platform to sell their products, including:

Here’s an example of a product search page from Shopify user Gymshark :

Pros of Shopify

Next, the Shopify dashboard is extremely intuitive and simple to use.

It’s easy to customize your product pages, track inventory, and manage your orders from just one dashboard. And you can set detailed shipping costs for different regions and price points.

Shopify also provides detailed analytics and reports to help you optimize your business strategy.

Shopify Payments allows you to accept credit card payments instantly – no third-party accounts required.

And you can even use the Shopify POS System to take card payments in person.

Like WordPress, Shopify provides access to thousands of apps for every imaginable need. You can use these to collect more product reviews, increase sales, and integrate your store with your social media accounts.

Cons of Shopify

Shopify’s strength lies in its total focus on providing the best platform for commerce. However this is also its key weakness.

Shopify isn’t your best choice if you aren’t building a business.

In other words, if you want to build a portfolio, a blog, or other non-ecommerce assets, then you may want to use a different solution.

Lastly, Shopify’s starting price isn’t as cheap as some other website builders. But then again, other website builders aren’t always designed to make you money.

Shopify Pricing

2. How to Make a Website for General Purpose: Wix

Best for: Freelancers, consultants, and personal use.

Wix is one of the most popular website builders available.

With more than 200 million users in 190 countries, the service is a hit among those who want a simple, all-in-one website builder for general purpose.

Here’s an example of a Wix website from tattoo illustrator Elebea :

Pros of Wix

Wix is a simple, cloud-based website builder.

This means you don’t need to download any special software or pay a third-party server to host your website – everything is done online in your browser.

The service provides more than 500 free designer-made website templates to help you create a website.

And once you’ve chosen a template, it’s easy to customize it for your own needs using Wix’s intuitive drag and drop editor.

The service also provides access to more than 250 website apps which can help you to create a website.

These apps allow you to add additional features and functionality to your website, such as a forum, gallery, events, live chat, social media widgets, and more.

Plus, Wix’s starting plan is completely free.

Also, the Unlimited and VIP plans are very reasonably priced compared to other options.

Cons of Wix

For this reason, it’s likely that fast-growing digitally-focused businesses will inevitably outgrow the service.

The free plan also limits your bandwidth and storage.

This isn’t a problem if you plan to create a website with only a few pages. However, if you plan on adding plenty of photos and videos to your website, you may run out of space and need to upgrade to a paid plan.

What’s more, the free and Connect Domain plans will display the Wix ads on your website. To remove these, you must upgrade to the Combo, Unlimited, or VIP plan.

Another drawback is that once you use Wix to create a website, you’re pretty much locked into the service.

If you ever decide to change website providers, it’s quite a complicated process, and will usually involve starting from scratch.

Wix Pricing

Wix provides five different plans to choose from depending on the features you need:

3. How to Create a Website for Promoting Creative Works: Squarespace

Best for: Photographers, digital artists, and other creative professionals.

New York-based Squarespace has been in business as a website building platform since 2004.

Its key selling points include a highly intuitive visual editor, an easy-to-navigate backend, and stunning design templates that look great on both mobile and desktop screens.

Squarespace templates offer a decent amount of white space, making them ideal for showcasing a creative portfolio in an elegant way.

Plus, you can use the drag-and-drop editor to customize them to a finer degree.

Creatives will love how Squarespace templates really let the content shine. And it’s nice to know that you can upload your work in whatever resolution and size you want – all of Squarespace’s plans include unlimited storage.

Squarespace also has extensions — a range of add-ons that add more functionality to your site. You can find extensions for key apps including Printful and Printique, as well as manage an email list.

Cons of Squarespace

While Squarespace works great for building an elegant website, it’s not the fastest site builder around.

Its templates get low scores when tested for speed, which could possibly result in a poor user experience.

Additionally, the usability of Squarespace’s site editor isn’t the most pleasurable to use — for example, it’ll ask you to save your work after each change rather than auto saving everything on its own.

What’s more, Squarespace’s layout doesn’t make it suitable for building larger websites with deep menu hierarchy. With just one sub-navigation, you can’t set up a multilingual site on their platform.

Fortunately, you can always use Squarespace alternatives if the platform doesn’t need your website building needs.

Squarespace Pricing

Squarespace provides four plans for you to choose from:

4. How to Set Up a Website for Blogging: WordPress.org

Best for: Professional bloggers and medium to large-sized businesses in need of control and flexibility.

WordPress’s flexibility, ownership, and limitless potential have brought it fame, popularity, and legions of diehard fans.

It’s particularly suited to professional bloggers. This is because WordPress allows users to retain complete control over their web presence and digital content.

Still, WordPress confuses a lot of people because there are actually two different types:

Both services were created by Automattic and are pretty much the same, apart from a few key differences.

Like Wix, WordPress.com is an all-in-one website builder and hosting service. Simply log in, choose a plan, select a website theme, customize your website, and you’re off to the races.

Here’s how it works:

In essence, these hosting providers allow you to “rent” space on their servers to host your website. They’ll also help you to secure a domain name.

Once you have your hosting and domain name, you can install WordPress and get to work customizing your website. (Most hosting providers will help you to install WordPress in just one or two clicks.)

At this point, you can log into your self-hosted website and begin customizing it.

Pros of WordPress.org

If you want to maintain complete control over every aspect of your website, you must self-host it. Unlike cloud-based website builder services like Wix, self-hosting provides total freedom, control, and flexibility.

And if you’re going to self-host, WordPress.org is the framework to use.

What’s more, you’re free to access, study, change and redistribute WordPress’s open source code.

But it’s not just a playground for programmers.

Those of us lacking programming skills can use other people’s improvements, additions, and changes – many of which come in the form of pre-made WordPress themes and plugins.

And there are thousands of them.

So whatever features you want to add to your website, you can bet there are countless themes and plugins to help you.

Plus, there are also legions of third-party designers and programmers to help you get the most out of your WordPress website.

Bottom line, with WordPress, you’re in complete control.

Cons of WordPress.org

The key downside to using WordPress.org can be summed up by Spiderman’s Uncle Ben: “With great power, comes great responsibility.”

In this scenario, you’re responsible for managing your hosting and website maintenance. This includes things like updates, security, and backups.

Plus, the support is hands-off.

Although there is a WordPress forum thread for every imaginable issue, the responsibility falls on you to fix it – or to pay someone else to fix it. In other words, there’s no dedicated support staff on-hand to help you personally.

What’s more, there’s a steep learning curve when it comes to understanding how to get the most out of WordPress.

WordPress Pricing

WordPress software is free – as are many of the themes and plugins.

It’s also worth factoring in the price of premium WordPress themes and plugins.

5. How to Create a Website for Personal Branding: About.me

Best for: Professionals in need of a simple one-page website to showcase their personal brand.

About.me is a cloud-based one-page website builder.

It’s simple, minimal, and the easiest way to make a website for personal branding. Here’s an example of an About.me profile:

Pros of About.me

It doesn’t get simpler than this.

Creating a website with About.me is just like setting up a social media profile. It features only the necessary items, including:

You can also add testimonials, videos, or a portfolio to showcase your work. Plus, you can allow people to view your calendar and book time with you.

And that’s about it!

Just think of your About.me page as the ultimate digital business card. The service even provides a nifty email signature that you can use to point people to your page.

All in all, About.me is an elegant, quick, and easy solution to personal branding.

Cons of About.me

You’ve probably guessed by now that the features and functionality are extremely limited.

In fact, there are only three basic page layouts :

So if you’re looking to create a visual masterpiece that expresses your unique personality and essence, you may want to look elsewhere.

Plus, these profiles aren’t exactly setup to drive business growth.

About.me Pricing:

About.me provides profiles for free.

However, these are severely lacking in features, promote About.me branding at the top and bottom of the page, and don’t allow you to connect your own domain name.

6. How to Start a Website to Generate Leads or Sell Info Products: ClickFunnels

Best for: Selling information products and creating high converting digital sales funnels.

ClickFunnels isn’t a website builder per se – it’s a funnel builder.

However, many people use the service to create a website and sales funnel together.

What’s a sales funnel?

In short, a sales funnel is the process of turning a stranger into a customer. The graphic below shows the four key stages a person must go through to become a customer, often referred to as AIDA :

ClickFunnels is a website builder focused on generating leads and converting them into customers.

For this reason, pretty much every business could find a use for ClickFunnels.

Still, it’s particularly good for businesses selling information products such as ebooks, video tutorials, online courses, etc.

This type of business doesn’t need to worry about manufacturing, inventory, shipping, web hosting, etc. As a result, they can scale indefinitely with just a high-converting online sales funnel.

That’s why successful coaches and authors like Tony Robbins have used ClickFunnels to sell their online courses, audio trainings, and books.

Here’s an example of a ClickFunnels landing page promoting a book written by Russell Brunson, the founder of Clickfunnels:

Pros of ClickFunnels

ClickFunnels provides tons of readymade sales funnel templates to help you create a website.

These templates are based on proven sales funnel strategies and tactics. So, with their intuitive drag and drop web page editor, you’re certain to have a high converting funnel up and running in no time.

Creating a funnel from scratch on your own website would take far longer.

And unless you’re a successful digital marketer, it’s likely your own funnel would take a lot of iterations before it converted visitors into customers as well as a standard ClickFunnels template.

These templates are very flexible too. You can customize pretty much everything.

The best part? All of these marketing tools are combined into one cohesive service.

ClickFunnels also allow you to add membership areas to your website – perfect for providing gated access to your online courses.

Plus, if you struggle to create a website with ClickFunnels, the service provides tutorials and courses to help.

Cons of ClickFunnels

The main downside to creating a website with ClickFunnels is the price.

They also practice what they preach perhaps a little too much.

There’s always an upsell or cross-sell they’re pushing and if you’re not careful, those add-ons will increase your costs significantly.

ClickFunnels comes with a lot of moving parts. With so many things to learn at once, you’ll need to put the time in to learn how to use the service and it may feel overwhelming.

ClickFunnels Pricing:

Summary: How to Make Your Own Website in 2021

There are countless ways to create a website and some are better than others for particular needs.

In summary, here are six different ways to create a website and our recommended use for each one:

With these services, starting a website doesn’t have to be difficult, costly, or time-consuming.

So how do you plan to create a website? Let us know in the comments below!