Building a Website as a Beginner: My Five Insights from the Past Few Months!
A few months ago, I was really stressed about building a website. I wanted to create a forum and knew there were downloadable options available, but no matter what I tried, I couldn’t successfully install it. Finally, after much difficulty, I found a company called Naisi Nikexi on HAO123 (http://www.b86.net) that offered a forum package. Luckily, they helped me install the Discuz forum package. To build this website well, I truly put in a lot of effort. During these tough days of building my site, I believe all webmasters feel the same way — all the hard work is worth it as long as we fight for our ideals. When we succeed, it will be a great comfort.
Below, I want to share my insights from the past two months of building my website:
1. External Links
When I first started building my website, I didn’t know what content to write, so I went to various websites to find the content I wanted and then published it on my own site. During this time, I realized an essential spirit of the internet — the sharing spirit. Many friends who write original content always add at the end: "No reprints allowed, or legal responsibility will be borne." If new webmasters use such wording, they are essentially putting obstacles in front of their own websites. If your article gets reprinted, your website’s authority will increase (whether others remove your link or not), and the so-called PR value will grow.
2. Partnerships
Don't overly focus on the PR value of your partners. For example, a PR5 website may have less than one-third of the traffic of a PR0 website. Moreover, some PR0 websites can bring spider routes to your site. Here's the key point: your friendly links should ideally point to a few authoritative sites (between 1 to 3). This represents you recommending those sites to the audience of the internet. Both internet users and spiders will frequently visit your site.
3. Content
The website should focus on its content. I see many webmasters doing SEO, and I feel that SEO is most effective when your content is already complete, and then you make slight adjustments. This will help improve your website's ranking. Focus on original content, respect intellectual property rights — these are things a website must do.
4. Structure
The website structure should be clear. If you can connect every page of your website together, I believe your website will soon achieve good results.
5. Learning
Visit more webmaster consultation websites and exchange ideas with other webmasters. You will grow from these interactions. (I learned a lot from Chinaz.)
Finally, I would like to greet all webmaster friends here. We are all people who build websites, and the hardships go without saying. I just hope that we can make the internet a better place. That is our webmaster ideal, isn't it?