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visitors and able to retain a large percentage of loyal visitors who would visit your site again and again. In this way you can generate a large customer base. To build a good website, the first thing you must do is focus on the contents of your web site. You must make sure that your contents are interesting and have enough useful information. In order to create good contents, you must conduct some research by reading books, journal, and info from the Internet and etc in the topic you have identified earlier. Next, you need to design a framework for your contents; and get the main topic and subtopics properly arranged before you start writing your contents. If you are not good in writing, you can ask your family members or your friends to help you. Even you are good in writing, you still need to get someone to edit your work. You can pay a free lance editor to do the editing job for you or you can ask your relatives or friends to help you. As for me, I am lucky enough to have my daughter to edit for me. Secondly, you must design an attractive and consistent template for all your web pages. You should also ensure that it is easy for the users to navigate around various sections of your web site. You can use GUI-based web page development programs such as MS FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and etc to accomplish the above tasks. Besides, you should also learn some basics of HTML so that you can customize your web pages better. After you have done all your web pages, you must get your web site hosted by a reliable web hosting company so that it will be available online 24 hours a day. Although you need to pay a nominal fee of something like US80, it is worth the investment and normally you can earn it back in days. Lastly, you must update your web site regularly because people normally get bored with old contents. To save time in updating, you might want to start a blog (web log) to complement your web site because updating a blog relatively easier.

Once you are satisfied for your web site, it is time to promote your web site, for free! The first thing you should do is to submit your web site to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Web Crawler and etc., and you can engage free submission service providers such as http://www.freewebsubmission.c om/ or http://www.submitexpress.com/ to do the job for you. However, in order for people to be able to reach your web site, you must enter all the keywords that are related to your web site in the META tag of your

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