Ppl, I want to start my own site. Im a novice and I need some help in this. How do i proceed after getting a domain name.
First you should define what should be your keyword use google keyword tool for search a high searched keyword and than find domain name related to your keyword on Godaddy.com and many other domain selling sites.
I'm not ultimate webmaster or seo playa, but I think that these steps will help you : 1. rich keyword domain name (preferably .com) 2.good hosting 3. good content with keywords 4. ping your site 5. enter to social media to spread your website and content 6. constantly update your site 7. optimize your keywords 8. play with ppc traffic 9. look and do again 5-8 steps.
I would suggest, if it's your first website U can point your domain name to Blogger and start a blog/site using Blogger.com. It's easy and no hosting charge. Still you can show ads, generate profit. Also if traffic becomes too high you can have your own VPS.
After getting Domain,to build site,do following things: ->Install Wordpress,Joomla or any script you like ->Install nice theme ->Put unique content ->Do SEO
What is your site about ? If it is a blog, then I would suggest you to buy a hosting and install Wordpress on it. There are many tutorials to install wordpress on youtube, so you can learn from them. Then install a theme and add some content and some SEO work
Make it good looking Make it SEO friendly (Prepare site map) Target/Find your audience through social network sites like Facebook ,Twitter share your unique content effectively Don't stop doing SEO Do follow others well
Make a domain of something you like and have many thoughts on, so that you can create unique contend and have visitors that would suggest your site to their friends(that is what i did and i got my domain ranked well in google).
All suggestions are good but if you are new as you say and know nothing about it then what Ppl saying here you can not understand. Its take sometime. But for your initial knowledge. The domain should be related to your content you want to post in site. If you are thinking about blogging then host your domain on Blogspot. But there your content can be deleted if they thought you posting is spam. You can not rectify anything. So to avoid this buy hosting and install Wordpress. If you don't know how to setup and install take help of someone. You will find lots of Ppl who charge little $ for this. After setup start posting and check DP for optimization. If you have no previous knowledge you can not learn and understand all things in one day. Give sometime to you. It get flow with time. And you can understand easily when you face problem and try to correct that.
So you have just bought a domain name and want to take next steps. Here are some steps that you need to follow to set up a domain. Hosting Hosting is something where your website files will be stored. When some one types in your website name in the browser, the DNS (Domain name server) that is set in the domain control panel redirects them to the server place (hosting place) where these files are being rendered in html format in the browser. To do this you will need to buy a hosting package. Depending on your need,you can go with hostgator or godaddy or some reliable provider. DNS set up As I said before DNS is domain name server. This is set in your domain control panel. Domain control panel is something that a domain registrar will provide. Login to their website and change the DNS. I saw a nice website that might be helpful to you. [video=youtube;AqlBzSER-40]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqlBzSER-40[/video] Web Design Now design is something called the structure of html that will hold your content. If you see this forum, the navigation, color, link etc., are all a part of web design. I recommend that you hire some one to do this for you. Content Management: If you have a relatively small website. Say for eg: 1-20 pages, you can manage the pages manually. I mean after learning how to insert content into the design from the designer you can do that. However if you want to have a website with blog and 100's of pages, you need a CMS (Content Management System). Here the best free software available is Wordpress. Again I recommend you to buy some service. People install wordpress for $5 to $30. You can find these services here -> http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=60 or http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104 Learn I know being new sucks. But try to grab and learn as much as possible as you move along. Good luck.
If you want to make your website in CMS then you can take help of - Wordpress Joomla Drupal. Personally I think wordpress is fit for you. You can also make your website in simple html with the help of .PHP and CSS. There are many ways to link css to html. You may take help of youtube to know how to develop your website.