Free Web Help - 8 Simple Steps Building and Ranking Your Website

This is a tutorial of 9 pages that will explaining in laymen terms on how to rank a site from step 1 to the last step. It starts with this website introduction and if you simply read each page and click Next at the bottom and then finish all steps, you will end up with a ranked website! (Note: about 90% of your ranking starts with the proper domain name).

• Introduction:
  Finally, free website help from concept to completion. We have assembled this Free help resource in hopes that anyone who needs help forming and building a new website or is searching for a way to see it rank on the search engines, has the basic information as to what not to do and also what they should do to start a website, troubleshoot a website or revamp a website, and have it rank "out of the gate" on all of the major search engines.
  

• Using the right keywords: (Click on this section to see examples - A must read)
  The first step in obtaining a web site should be determining the domain name and then purchasing the domain name. Before buying any domain name, one would need to determine what one or two or even three keywords or phrases someone would type into the search engines to find them. (After that, The time has come for the actual purchase of a domain name).
  

• Domain name research:
  Now that you have done the research to find the keyword / keywords that target your website, you will now have to make some decisions and search for the most relevant domain names available for those keywords. In this section, you will be given valuable search tools and A Free Way to find the perfect domain name for your website.
  

• Choosing the right web hosting:
  Once you have the keywords hashed out and have selected the domain name that's relevant to the keywords of your website, you will need to build the website. After you are done building the website with a program, it will be ready for uploading to the internet. You will need a website hosting company to "house your website" and hold the information you have created for all to see. There are many website hosts. Picking one may be a daunting task!
  
  How? - The answer is simply this - Compare Companies and let them know what your needs are. never buy the first web hosting "Package" you run into. We will refer a few and you be the judge on who hosts your website.
  

• Selecting A website program:
  Now that your website has been thought through and a domain name has been chosen that matches your keywords / key phrases and you have selected a hosting company, now is the time to choose how and with what program or web designer you are going to use to write the website. There are many programs out there, such as: Microsoft FrontPage, Dream Weaver and many more, There are many website designers out there too! Careful.
  

• Valid website code or not:
  Many websites built are not written with valid markup or valid code. It is our opinion that valid code is necessary or will be necessary in the future and it is a good idea to write with valid code. At least this way, you will get off on the right foot when building your website.
  

• Website optimization:
  Now that you have built your website, you will need to optimize it for the search engines. Optimization should include the following: Image Optimization, Meta Tag Optimization, W3C Optimization & Errors Optimization. Other considerations should include: Spell checking the entire website & checking for broken links. See Videos Of Google's Matt Cutts (Questions & Answers From Google):
  

• Search engine submission:
  After you have completed all the steps above, you will want to submit your website to the major search engines. We would suggest manual submissions in order to avoid any spamming. There are automated tools that will submit your website for you however, many of the free automated website submission tools will submit to the same search engines. It is important NOT TO submit your website more than once to any search engine.
  

• Link campaign:
  After submitting your website to the world, you can not just leave it alone and think it will come up at the top of any search engines. Your website is in its early stages and needs to be made known to the world. There are many things that need to be done at this juncture. This is essentially, where it all begins.