Creating A WebSite

Have you read the Action-Guide?

The Action Guide and the integrated set of SBI! tools make the process all so do-able. SBI! turns your knowledge into Content... and your Content into Traffic, then PRESells those visitors and converts them into Money.

THAT is what makes SBI! unique... AND effective.
Action-Guide - Day 1

If you scan through the Introduction, you'll see a checklist for download. That checklist serves as roadmap that helps you along the way.

Do read that Action-Guide seriously.

My First Website

I found the Action-Guide only after I built my first site. And I made a bigger mistake.

I read the guide but I didn't follow the instruction. I even sign-up and still I didn't follow the step-by-step guide. I just used the tool to search for keywords. There wasn't many keywords to use as I was targeting only at local market and for non-profit.

For the next 3 years, I concentrated on only 3-5 keywords, did constant tweaking and suddenly, I realized it worked!

In fact it was built on a subdomain of this site. (See WayBack Machine )

And 18 months after submission, it was listed in DMOZ. If you think that 18 months was too long a time, I can only tell you that it was worth the wait.

I submitted this site 4 times since 2004, it has yet to be listed.

By accident, the way I built my first site was quite close to the action guide.

Still it took 3 years to achieve to get it right.

The Strategy

I adopt a very simple strategy, and that was by working backwards starting from the objective:

Objective of creating a website

This objective has to be clearly defined. Without which I'll be building a website because others have a website.

Once the whys are answered, the hows are strategies and implementation of the website towards this goal.

Contact

After a year of testing, I concluded that inquries by phone was not popular. Publishing my email on the web only invited spams. Few would want send their email through their Outlook. Most used their Hotmail, Yahoo and company email accounts and submitting a form is more desirable.

Once this mode of contact was confirmed, I provide links to the contact form on more pages.

The strategy was to encorage them to ask a question.

It may takes time to discover what really works. And once the "Success Formula" was discovered, what's left was just to maintain the website and watch things happen

You may want to take a look at my first site tpctmc.org before going to the next page.

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Wish you every success in Making Your Own Website...