When you want to start a new website…You should know this
I just thought I’d post this, since people these days have so many opinions about everything.There are also a lot of newbies who haven’t gotten their own websites yet.
Here is a few tips:
- Register your domain as early as possible. This is because the older the domain is, the better it will rank in google, and you will get the possibility to increase crawl rate from your google analytics panel.
This will also keep you from going to the google sandbox for getting too many inbound links, too fast.
Other than that, having your own domain ready is a lot more motivating, as well as it helps you focus on one thing/idea.
In my opinion, the best name registrar is namecheap.com . You will then have the ability to easily transfer your domain to your hosting account.
As for hosting, I would recommend hostgator
Hostgator has been around for a looong time, and have some of the best uptimes on the market.
Their support is excellent, and they have fantastico, so you can install wordpress with a few clicks, as well as many other kinds of scripts.
This is the exact same way I do it. – I first buy a domain at namecheap, then transfer it to hostgator.
I would also recommend buying an expired domain if you find a good one you like. You can find them at http://www.olddomains.net/ and http://www.freshdrop.net/.
When you have your website up and running, get it indexed by pinging it at pingler.com
This should get your website indexed within 24 hours – usually in a few hours though.
You can do this everytime you add more content to your website to get it indexed immidiately.
You should also post it at digg.com as well, which will get the digg post ranking high in the search engines for your chosen keyword. If you optimize for it that is.
Then you should register your domain in your google webmaster account, and submit a sitemap.
A sitemap can easily be created at: xml-sitemaps.com, or you can use the wordpress sitemap plugin.
You should do this to make sure all webpages on your site gets indexed. You will also be able to see many different statistics, and choose several options that might come in handy. For example which rate you want google’s spiders to visit your site.
For static sites with little interactivity, you should set it low to reduce your bandwith usage. And for blogs,social sites, forums and other interactive sites, you might want to put it higher to make sure new content gets indexed fast and give your more visitors from google.
Now you are set to register your website! – So do it NOW!
This is the exact methods I use when I first register a domain and publish it. Simple as that really =)
- Preben Frenning
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Thank you for your support of pingler.com, it is very much appreciated.
Pingler Webmaster
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 am
You’re welcome! And thank YOU for such a fantastic service!
I’m glad you appreciate me spreading the word =)
I have told a lot of people at trafficdrill about it as well, and I’m making a short indexing guide now, where pingler is included.
– Preben
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hey dude, thanks for the advice with pingler.com! Given you a ‘thumbs-up’ in appreciation.
Tom
December 7th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Pinging a site at Pingler is that the same as getting a backlink to your site?
December 7th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Nope! ( or actually, to a few search engines, it can be counted as a temporary backlink, but nevermind)
Submitting your site to pingler simply helps you get your website, or webpage indexed.
Pinging is a way of telling different websites that your page has recently gotten updated, and that you should get a few search engine spiders to take another look at your website =)
– Preben
January 20th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
An older domain name gets more credit in the search engines. Even if you don’t plan on starting your website up right away, it is good to purchase the domain as soon as possible.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
That’s right!
I always buy them when I have decided to stick with the “idea” of what I’m going to use it for.
And it really have a lot to say whether you purchase it a week before you publish it, or a month. – If you purchase it a month before it will be safer to crank out unique content, as well as you will actually more likely get ranked for the keywords you target.
I also tried purchasing a pr 2 website, and it rank EXTREMELY well right away. It was an expired domain, which ranked way better than the other websites I have optimized – And the new domain wasn’t optimized at all!
So if you can buy an expired domain for your new project – Do it ;o)
– Preben
February 12th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with
February 13th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
It’s just a few tips about how to go about when starting a new website. No biggie.
I just added a bit about google if you think that’s better =)
February 18th, 2009 at 1:26 am
thanks to the article
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Seems worth while to me
February 24th, 2009 at 12:02 am
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March 12th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
good stuff here bro.I like it
March 28th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
The older a domain name gets more credit it has with the search engines. Great Post!
July 19th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
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January 10th, 2010 at 2:46 am
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February 23rd, 2010 at 11:53 am
Great post.
Regarding registering a domain early… I like to do this too. But as soon as I have registered my domain I will install Wordpress or just put up a static HTML page with a keyword-focused article. I will then build just a few links to it. Then I can actually get on with creating all the proper content etc. knowing that by the time I actually get to launch the proper site it will almost certainly already be listed in Google.
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