Thread: Building your own website

The thread on how to set up your own website and make it successful, I shall probably add to it every few days.
Okay we got a load of members with websites, some of these websites are complete shite, but we also have quite a few members that are building and running really good informative websites that are getting the traffic, the only thing that will earn you money on the internet is traffic, whether you stick google adverts or private adverts on there you need traffic to actually click on those adverts.
Anyway hopefully some of the more experienced webmasters will chip in here with a few tips on what not to do and what to do without exposing too many of their secrets, yes that means you frankie etc.

Right, first off is your domain name, if you own "Lek Taxi Service" in Bangkok you really don't want to buy lektaxiservice.com, your domain name is one of your strongest features on the search engines, it really does count for a lot and you do need people to find your website easily and fast, so what would people in Bangkok search for when looking for a taxi service?

"Bangkok Taxi" and variations on that theme, so lets say "Bangkok Taxi" has already gone, you maybe be able to get the hyphenated version, or hell, just go for LekBangkokTaxi.com, in that domain name you have the words "Taxi" and "Bangkok" so all going well you should be on that first google search page when the time comes and that search is done.

Hopefully somebody will post about headers and stuff like that next to help get groups of what you consider important words onto that first page of google.