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8 Smart Tips To Get Your Website Off The Ground

April 15, 2025 By admin

You will need to do quite a bit of planning before your website can become a reality.

This is true even if you just want to create a simple blog page to post your thoughts for the rest of the world to read.

Creating your website is indeed much easier now than it used to be in the early days of the Internet.

However, people who rush the process will end up with a site that has a lot of problems that they are not happy with.

Here are some helpful hints you can use when you are trying to get your site off the ground.

 

 

Table of Contents

  • 1. Who Will Handle The Design Chores?
  • 2. Find a Web Hosting Company
  • 3. Set a Budget For Yourself
  • 4. The Importance Of The Domain Name
  • 5. Choose Appropriate Titles For Search Engines and Visitors
  • 6. The Importance Of The Content
  • 7. Loading Speed Of The Site
  • 8. Work To Retain Users On Your Site
    • Wait! Before You Go, Read:

1. Who Will Handle The Design Chores?

You will need to hire a web designer if you are not skilled enough to do all of the designing yourself.

It is at this early stage that many people make a rather large mistake. They falsely believe that all web designers possess the same skills and are the same. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.

Web designers come in all skill levels and price ranges. You tend to get what you pay for where web designers are concerned. This is why you should not simply hire the first web designer you find online without completely checking out their background and experience ahead of time.

It is essential that you know what type of web design prowess you will be getting for the money you will be paying this person. Talk to many web designers to get a feel for the talent that is available in your area.

You should always ask to see examples of their previous work. This will allow you to determine if that particular person is up to the challenge of designing your site.

You might want to consider hiring a college student to be your web designer. Some of these young people are very talented and charge far less than professional web designers.

 

2. Find a Web Hosting Company

After you buy domains, you will also need to look into what company you will be doing business with in terms of hosting your site. This is yet another decision that should not be made in haste. Some web hosting companies are much better than others.

You need to find a company that is not going to have any interruptions in service that will cause your site to go offline. This will be a disaster if you plan on running an online business.

You will not be able to make money if your site is offline. Fortunately, there are many web hosting and design packages for you to choose from. Compare prices to get the best deal.

 

3. Set a Budget For Yourself

There will be various expenses that you will need to deal with during the crucial early days of your site.

Make a list and figure out what your overhead will be.

Make sure you have some extra cash set aside for any emergencies that might arise.

 

4. The Importance Of The Domain Name

For many, that’s a random choice, but it’s a wrong practice.

Search engines still give huge importance to the domain name to rank websites.

Sometimes, it just takes an appropriate name to be placed at the top of Google without much effort.

nopassiveincome search results

 

5. Choose Appropriate Titles For Search Engines and Visitors

The names of the pages, as well as slugs, H1 titles, and subtitles (and content, of course), are very important for achieving a good ranking, and so they are for your visitors.

Therefore, you must choose wisely.

For example, if you want to rank a page for certain keywords (let’s say “affiliate marketing“), be sure to place them in the H1 title, slug, subtitles and within the content:

NoPassiveIncome permalink URL

 

6. The Importance Of The Content

Content is still the most important thing when building a website.

Many (especially graphics experts, web designers, and advertising agencies) tend to underestimate the importance of writing. They focus on images, on the “special effects” of a web page, and they write a short text. That’s a bad approach. The search engines are hungry for good content…just take a look at your competitors!

 

7. Loading Speed Of The Site

We have just a few seconds to convince the users to stay on our sites (see article).

If you offer pages that are loading slowly, then you risk losing many visitors (also search engines do not love to wait much to scan your site).

There are several ways to speed up your pages, be sure to check this post for more details.

google page speed checker result for nopassiveincome

 

8. Work To Retain Users On Your Site

Google recently published “Search Quality Evaluation Guidelines” (click here to download the PDF).

They are instructing the users on what they should consider to evaluating the websites.

Have you read it already?

I did it.

My take is that user experience is extremely important, and it’s becoming the most significant factor to rank.

Your mission should be to give users exactly what they are looking for when they land on your site.

How to achieve it?

Writing articles with added value and significant deepening of the topic treated.

Easier said, than done!

Here’s a quote taken from this post at MOZ of a few days ago:

“Content is king.”

But…

“The user is queen, and she rules the universe.”

Google only cares about your content inasmuch as it answers the user’s search query. Search results are not a collection of “good” content; they are a ranked list of content that best satisfies what the user is looking for.

 

 

What do you think?

Are you working already on the points mentioned in this post?

Please share your views in the comments below, thanks!

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Comments

  1. Justin Allen Hammonds says

    February 2, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    This is a great post. I know I didn’t focus too much on design when I started. I learned that from one of my mentors. He was making 30k a month before he invested into design.

    I’m happy where my blog is. It’s getting traffic, so I won’t complain. I’m also getting leads as well, and customers so it’s worth it. Just looking to get more growth on my blog and really scale.

  2. Anant Patel says

    February 3, 2016 at 7:29 am

    Hi Erik,

    I am agree with all your points and need to share some thing about website design. Nowadays it is essential that your website design will be responsive as well, so that you will get more traffic from mobile and ipad. Earlier one of my blog is not responsive so i did not get that much traffic from mobile. Once i have done responsive website design and it increase my visitors. So I think everyone should have to take care while design their website

  3. Dennis Seymour says

    February 3, 2016 at 8:57 am

    Great points Erik. 7 is usually the most overlooked one. It’s eaasy to forget about it and just focus on everything else. Even a little bit of work will do wonders for results.

    Keep up the great work! 🙂

  4. Carlton says

    February 3, 2016 at 8:29 pm

    Just used your number 7 tip and it helped clean up alot of issues I didn’t know were there in my blog, thanks again!

  5. David says

    February 8, 2016 at 2:47 am

    #4 is the one I get stuck on so often… I feel like the domain name needs to be “perfect” and I’ll spend literal days mulling it over trying to come up with the perfect domain name. And domainers buying up all the good domain names certainly doesn’t help things!

  6. Yogesh Shinde says

    February 8, 2016 at 9:14 am

    Hey Erik,

    Google give importance to user experience and off course page speed. That’s why we should focus on these elements as well, not only for SEO purpose but for ou audience as well. Thanks for sharing Erik.

  7. Riya says

    March 3, 2016 at 10:07 am

    Hello Erik! The tips you shared are nice. After reading this blog, I came to know that how I can get a website off the ground. I’ll surely use these tips for my website. Thank you for this share and keep sharing such type of informative blogs.

  8. Philip Verghese Ariel says

    July 30, 2020 at 5:34 am

    Hi Erik
    Great share.
    How come I missed to add my feedback on this wonderful post!!
    Good to read again the repurposed version.
    This is indeed an evergreen one.

    Great many tips are added to this post.
    A good guide to all newbies as well as the veterans.
    Keep sharing
    All the best.
    Phil

  9. Vishwajeet Kumar says

    July 30, 2020 at 9:51 am

    Hello Erik,

    Driving traffic to a blog is a challenging job for newbie bloggers. Content always plays a great role in driving traffic and increase conversions. You have shared some great and proven tips here.

    Regards,
    Vishwajeet Kumar

  10. Upendra says

    July 31, 2020 at 11:55 am

    Hello !
    Very Interesting blog, this blog gives very useful and helpful detail about the blogging because you are right some bloggers know how to write a blog post that attracts readers and makes them stay but not all bloggers knows that.

    We focus on providing end-to-end flutter web development and flutter mobile application development products & services by focusing on today’s mobile-first businesses strategies in Flutter development in delhi ncr, flutter company in noida, flutter company in delhi etc. We help you to fulfill the gap between Development, Design and Product Management.

  11. Teguh Iw says

    July 31, 2020 at 5:07 pm

    Need a SEO, to make website search engine friendly. But SEO not an instant thing. It need long and consistent work to build it.

  12. Manoharan Nagarajan says

    August 4, 2020 at 3:39 pm

    Hi Erik , Its an amazing Article.
    I personally think Content and Domain name have more impact than others in long run. Thanks for sharing . Keep sharing more.

  13. Mary Claire says

    August 5, 2020 at 7:17 am

    Hey Erik,

    I would also add dedication and consistency to the aforementioned points. Yah, 7th is going to be the game changer in the upcoming years!

  14. Ryan K Biddulph says

    August 8, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    Good job Erik. Content makes everything go. Publish helpful content solving specific reader needs diligently, to get your blog up and running. Quality content levels the playing field for all bloggers if you commit fully to publishing helpful posts on the regular. Commit to prosper.

  15. Randall Magwood says

    January 20, 2024 at 10:35 pm

    This is a great read for anyone looking to launch a website. Still relevant in 2024. With all the tools nowadays to help launch and design a site and mobile site, creating a website has become easier than ever.

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