Building a Website as a Beginner: My Five Insights Over 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. Eventually, after much difficulty, I discovered a company called Naisi Nick through HAO123 (http://www.b86.net) that offered a forum package. Thankfully, they helped me install the Discuz forum package. To build this website, I put in a lot of effort. During these tough days of building my site, I believe all fellow webmasters share the same sentiment: all the hard work is worth it if we fight for our ideals. When we succeed, it brings immense satisfaction.
Below, I want to share my insights from the past two months of building my website:
1. External Links
When I first started building the website, I didn’t know what content to write, so I searched on various websites for the content I needed and then published it on my own site. During this time, I came to understand an essential spirit of the internet: the sharing spirit. Many friends who write original content often add at the end: "No reprints allowed, or legal responsibility will be incurred." If new webmasters use such language, they are essentially putting up barriers for their own websites. If your article gets reprinted, your website's authority increases (whether others remove your link or not), and what everyone refers to as PR value will grow.
2. Partnerships
Don't overly concern yourself with the PR value of your partners. For example, a PR5 website might 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 internet audience, and both internet users and spiders will frequently visit your site.
3. Content
Websites should focus on content. I see many webmasters doing SEO. I feel that SEO is only useful after your content is complete, making slight adjustments afterward, which will improve your website's ranking. Emphasize originality, focus on content, and respect intellectual property rights—these are things websites must do.
4. Structure
Ensure your website structure is 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 to exchange ideas with other webmasters; you will grow from it. (I've learned a lot from Chinaz.)
Finally, I’d like to greet all webmaster friends here. We’re all people who build websites, and the hardships go without saying. I just hope we can make the internet a better place—that’s our ideal as webmasters, isn't it?