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A lot people are interested in creating their own website because of the lucrative online business, particularly in the areas of online advertising such as Google's AdSense and online auction such as the model provided by ebay. Yes, many people are making good income through their personal websites; some even achieve five figures monthly income. You might be wondering how they do that. In actual fact, there is no simple way to create a web site; it is even more difficult to drive traffic to your web site. As for myself, although the income generated from my personal web site isn not as good as some of those five-figure income web sites, I am earning a decent income of a thousand dollars monthly by participating in the Google's AdSense program . So, I think I have some useful tips to share with you.

In order to create a good web site that can attract huge traffic and page view, you must focus on your contents. Write something that can attract people's eyeballs and keep them coming back to visit your web pages. To start writing your web site, first of all you must decide on your web site's topic or theme. You should work on something you are good at. For instance, you can write something about programming, sports ,games, travel, books review, astronomy, health, education, any hobby, and more. Next, conduct some research by gathering information from books, journal, the Internet and so on. After you have gathered enough information, you may now design the framework for your contents and get the main topic and subtopics properly arranged.

To design your website, you can use GUI-based webpage development programs such as MS Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and etc. Besides, you should also learn some basics of HTML so that you can customize your page better. For MS Frontpage, you have to purchase it. However, if you have Windows Vista, you can use notepad that come with it to design your web page using HTML. On top of that, you may add many goodies such as JavaScript, ASP, CGI Scripts, Java Applet, animated image, sound, video etc provided you have the expertise in each of the above technology.

Having created your web pages, you can then contact a web hosting company to register your domain name and to host your website. Your domain name should be related to your contents and special enough to catch people's attention. While searching for a hosting company, you need to conduct some background information check . Make sure the company can provide consistent supporting service as well as high bandwidth . Though you can register with a free hosting providers, you might have to compromise for lack of customizable features and low bandwidth. The next important job is to market your web site. First of all , submit your website to the major search engines through many website submission website, like http://www.submitexpress.com/ and http://www.google.com/addurl/

O n top of that, you must remember to add all possible keywords related to your site in your META Tag so that search engines can crawl your site and find the necessary info.This will improve your page rank. Besides, you can market your web site by emailing your friends, join discussion groups, leave messages in guestbook of other related web sites, join forums, and yes, answer questions in Yahoo! answers section. Most important of all, you must enrich your contents and update your web pages regularly.

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