Web Site Tips by FRE[SP]3KZ

Basic Resources for a Web Site
Version 1.2.1 BY FRE[SP]3KZ

Getting Webspace
You first need to get some web space. Sometimes you can get some free webspace from your ISP, but if you don't, try this website: www.absolutely-free-hosting.com for a listing of loads of FWPs [Free Webpage Providers] and if they want ads on your page or not, and so on.

If you're in the UK and you need to get some decent paid space, you can get some cheap domains and webspace from 1&1.

Redirections
If you land up with a FWP that gives you a really long URL such as
http ://members.loadsaspace.4free.com /MemberStreet/38423 /~john.smith/ [or maybe shorter [img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/WEB%20TIPS/WEB%20Basics.php_files/tongue.gif[/img]] then consider getting a redirector. There are some good ones out there, but the best [in my opinion, correct me if you think I'm wrong] are:

• DotTK
• Now Network
• Active.ws
• NE1.NET (requires approval)
• D6G.NET (requires approval)
• smartdots
• FreeDNS

The next thing is if you want to be contacted by visitors to your site is to get
an e-mail address. You can get a free POP3 e-mail address from PostAccess.

Getting to grips with HTML
If you don't know HTML, try tutorials at Page Resource. They have very simple tutorials for newbies and oldies to help you take the plunge.

Uploading your files
If you want to download a program to upload then try FileZilla. The great thing is that it has an interface similar to CuteFTP. It's open-source, so it can be hacked and modified to your needs.

If you want to upload without a FTP program go straight to Net2FTP, which can be found at www.net2ftp.com, or an alternative website can be found at www.01ftp.com

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Get your site listed on top in search engines, Search Engine Optimization
copy and pasted from Neowin.net

The tutorial is all about getting your site listed on top in Search Engines i.e Search Engine Optimization

First thing you need to do is find the keywords you want to optimize for.
how to find it ?

ok no probs there is great tool by Overture ( http://inventory.overture.com/d/sea...ory/suggestion/ ) but i will suggest using this free tool called GoodKeywords ( http://www.goodkeywords.com/products/gkw/ )

this one does the same job as Overture does but it also supports Search Engines Lycos and Teoma.

for example if you want to optimize for the keyword "tech news" then just search fot that keyword in any of the tools i specified... it shall show you keywords related to that and no of searches..

so pick the keywords which are related to your site.

for example when you search for tech news u will see results like this :

Count Search Term
11770 tech news
351 itt news tech
191 high tech news
60 news tech texas
49 computer tech news
42 bio news tech
34 in itt news tech
30 news tech virginia
29 asia news tech
25 hi tech news
25 sci tech news

now see what other terms are related to your keyword technology news ?

do couple of searches like that and note down around 15-20 keywords.
after that keep the keywords which are searched most on the top.

ok i have done everything now what ?

ok now u need title tag for the page.
title tag should include top 3 keywords. like for "tech news" it can be like :

"Latest Tech News, Information Technology News and Other computer raleted news here."

remember characters should not be more than 95 and should not have more than 3 "," commas - some search engines might cosider more than 3 commas as spam

ok now lets move on to Meta Tags

You need following Meta Tags in web page

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<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3">
<META name="description" content="brief description about the site">
<META name="robots" Content="Index,Follow">

no need to have other meta tags like abstract,re-visit and all...no one reads it..

now let me explain everything step by step
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

This tag is tells content type is html and character set used it iso-8859-1 there are other character sets also but this is the one mosty used..

<META name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3">

This one should have all your keywords inside starting from keyword with most counts...
keyword tag for our example would be something like :

<META name="keywords" content="tech news,technology news, computer technology news,information technology,software news">

remember put around 15-20 keywords max not more than that and dont repeat keywords or dont put keywords like this tech news,info tech news,latest tech news and like that...i hope you got what i meant... smile.gif

<META name="description" content="brief description about the site">

Provide short decription about your site and include all the keywords mentioned in the title tag.

our decription tag could be
<META name="description" content="One Stop for Latest Tech News, Information Technology News, Computer Related and Software news.">

it can be upto 255 characters and avoid using more than 3 "," commas

<META name="robots" Content="Index,Follow">

this one is used for search robots..following explanation will help you :

index,follow = index the page as well as follow the links
noindex,follow = dont index the page but follow the links
index,nofollow = index the page but dont follow the links
noindex,nofollow = dont index page, dont follow the links
all = same as index,follow
none = same as noindex,nofollow

ok now lets move on to body part of the page
now this is very important part, include all top 3 keywords here,
i will suggest just break the keyword and use it...

for example

YourSiteName.com one stop for all kind of Latest Tech News and Computer Related information and reviews.................

and best thing will be include main keywords in <h#> tags <h1><h2> etc..
and yes
start with <h1> and then move to <h2> <h3> etc..

i know <h1> tag will be too big but CSS can help you there, define small font size in css for H1,H2,... tags

ok now when done with page copy now u need to provide title and alt tags for images and links also

use some keywords in the tags but dont add all the keywords and if not nccessary then dont use keywords in it basically it should explain what is image all about thats it...

remember add Top keyword atleast 4 times in the body and other 2 keywords thrice and twice respectively.

ok now we move on to footer part
this is very important part for Search Engine optimization, try to include top keywords here and see the effect smile.gif use site keywords as links i.e.
<a href="news.php">Tech News</a> <a href="software-news.php">Software News</a> etc..

ok thats it done ? NO you need to read some more stuff..may be you can all it as bottom lines...

Site Map - This is page where you need to put all the links present in your site, this is will help Search Engines to find the links easily and also provide link for site map in footer, coz search engines start scanning the page from bottom.

Robots.txt - what's that now ? well this file contains address of directories which should not be scanned by search engines.. more info can be found here : http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html
search engines line google, yahoo ask for robots.txt file.

Valid HTML - Your code should have valid html and doc type, i know its kind of diffucult to follow all the standards but you shall atleast open and close all the tags properly, you can check your page's html online here : http://validator.w3.org/]http://validator.w3.org/ or you can use this free software called HTML Tidy : http://tidy.sourceforge.net/]http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

ok all done now need to check your site with this script, its called SEO Doctor : http://www.instantposition.com/seo_doctor.cfm

it shall show you the report of your site with solution.

ok now i corrected the errors and all now start submitting the site :

start with google : http://google.com/addurl.html]http://google.com/addurl.html
then yahoo : http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

then move to altavista,alltheweb and other search engies..

also submit your site to direcories like http://dmoz.org
http://jayde.com]http://jayde.com[/URL] etc...
dmoz is must, coz google, yahoo and may more search engines uses same directory

and remember dont try to SPAM with keywords in these directories, dmoz is handled by Human Editors

ok submitted the sites ? but still i cant see my site on top? why ?

wait for sometime may be a month or so but keep an eye on your search term, use http://Googlealert.com - this will show whenever google updates for your keywords, it will mail you the new results.

and also check whether your site is listed by google or not..
use this tool called Google Monitor, it can be downloaded for free from : http://www.cleverstat.com/google-monitor.htm

Very good tutorial. A lot of this stuff is known to experienced webmasters, but this is great info for newbs :)

and guess what.....im a newb...you got any other triks?

One of the webhosts I use is 1asphost.com

It's very good http://www.1asphost.com

Only problem is, if u want a popular site with pictures, the bandwidth'll run out pretty quickly (1 gig per month)

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Originally Posted by david622

One of the webhosts I use is 1asphost.com

It's very good http://www.1asphost.com

Only problem is, if u want a popular site with pictures, the bandwidth'll run out pretty quickly (1 gig per month)

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Thats weird im presently using this free site : http://www.domaindlx.com/
take a look it exactly the same as yours?:o

Yeah.... Strange....

That's pretty messed up.

Well.... either way, it's a good host.

nice tutorial

I bought my space from 1&1,now what do i do next to get a page or two on my site?Any help i would be grateful for..thanks.

http://www.w3schools.com/ is far better for HTML/CSS tutorials

http://www.phpfreaks.com/ for php.

and for the newcomer...now you need to create an 'index.html' file in the root directory of your site.

I assume you've got FTP and all that?

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Originally Posted by Sparsely

http://www.w3schools.com/ is far better for HTML/CSS tutorials

http://www.phpfreaks.com/ for php.

and for the newcomer...now you need to create an 'index.html' file in the root directory of your site.

I assume you've got FTP and all that?

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Hi not got ftp or anything sorted,i am familiar with it though.If you could point a total noob like me in the direction of a good sight i wud be grateful.How much would it cost for me to get someone to design and sort it all for me?Cheers

ooh..money?!
how much you got? ;)

seriously though...depending on what type of site it is, I may be willing to help you with it

unless you're doing something commmercial or with ads and all that...

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Originally Posted by Sparsely

ooh..money?!
how much you got? ;)

seriously though...depending on what type of site it is, I may be willing to help you with it

unless you're doing something commmercial or with ads and all that...

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Hi mate,thanks for your offer to help me out getting a site up and running,i am grateful to you.
As i said in my post i have my domain with 1&1 and i need to know what to do next.I am willing to learn some html as i go along,it wont be a commercial site and no adds either.What is the next things i got to do to get it going please?Cheers

*Note DotTK is not a website anymore.

thankfully it's still accessible at http://my.dot.tk

thax a lot

thanks for the awesome tutorial. lot's of good stuff in there

Thanks for the info!

nice guide!

Thanks ... Good Tutorial :)

Great tutorial! I was looking for a good program to promote my website with google and you answered....

Thanks

Does anyone have experience using the Amazon shopping linked to a site? I was interested to know if it was reasonable to actually earn some money with it.

in my tutorials i only us lynda ^_^

Cool tutorial

yeah , pretty much useful things for those lasy enough to search the net for real tutorials etc