How to create a Great Website that is valuable to your audience

Saturday, 9 August 2014

How to create a Great Website that is valuable to your audience

Are you looking to set up a new website or blog?,the Google Webmaster Academy can help you.Ever it is launched in 2012,it has helped thousands of webmasters to take their websites to the next level.Here's our version of how to create a great website.

Setting Up A New Website :-

Setting up a new website is the easiest part.But you have to get out of the comfort of the sub-domain and spend a few money on buying a custom domain and hosting (unless you're in blogger,in case you just need to buy a custom domain).

But before that you need to decide that you want a blog or a website.If you want to get a blog so please choose Blogger or wordpress,because these are the two famous platforms for the blogging.Now you have to choose a perfect custom domain for your blog or site.Visit hostgator for web hosting or godaddy for registering a new domain.

Identifying A Targeted Audience :-

Before you create your content,you should identify your site's audience.These are the people you want to visit your site.For example : the audience for our site Blogging Love includes bloggers,webmasters etc.Once you identify your audience you will create a content that is useful and relevant to them.Once you have plans for your website written down,show your friends and family gather feedback about it.Ask them what they think about your site as a professional visitor.You can also conduct plans or surveys to gather feedback about your site.

Creating High Quality Content :-

Content is the key to create a great site/blog.If people find your site great and unique so they may come back time to time or share your blog to their social networks or link your content on their own sites.This can help attracting more people to your site over time.

As you being creating unique content,so make sure that your site is :-

Useful and Informative :- If your site is for launching a restaurant,you can include the location,hours of operation,contact information,menu and a blog to share upcoming events.

More Valuable and Useful than other sites :- If you write about how to train a dog,make sure that your articles provide more value or a different perspective than the other numerous articles on the web.

A Recognized Authority on a subject :- Think about how the users might identify the authority by using original research,citations,links or references.Things like a short author biography help to boost article's trustworthiness and reputation.

High Quality Content :- Your blog's content should be unique,specific and high quality.It should not be massed produced or very huge.Keep in mind that your content created primarily to get good user experience,not to get well rank in Search Engines.

Engaging :- Bring color and life to your site by adding images in your posts.Make sure that your visitors are not distracted by spelling mistakes and factual errors.Engage visitors by interacting them through regular updates,comment boxes or social media plugins.

Site Structure :-

As a webmaster,you want your visitors to quickly and easily navigate your site to find the content they are looking for.You also want search engines to easily crawl your site and understand the content that you consider is very important.Keep in your mind that mobile optimization is also very important because of the increasing use of smartphones and mobiles are now as important as desktop.So,as a webmaster you have to prepare a mobile version of your site.I hope you understand the basics to create a great website that is valuable to your audience.Please drop a line of your experience in the comments below.

Stay tuned with us for more information.Happy Blogging :)