Planning Your Website

An integral part when making a website is to plan the website. Many of us get so excited about creating our first website that we jump right into it without any thought. Designing a website requires us to take a few important things into consideration. If you really want to design a website to be search engine friendly then you need to take certain critical steps to ensure that your website design is setup to look good to the bot (search spider, robot). The more you impress the search engines the more points your site is awarded, which translates to a higher ranking in a search query, which translates to more visitors which means more money for you, unless of course you would like to share some of it with me, in which case less for you.

Irregardless of the type of website (business, e-commerce, forum etc) you create or make, you will be required to make fundamental decisions. Let's say you only want to make a 5 page website for your local darts club (which only local members will access), and you really are not interested in optimizing it for search engines or monetizing your site, you will still need the following: