What type of site do you need to pick to start off your web site? Here are the most common types found

1. Forum.

   Forum is great for people looking to share their knowledge and share information on the stuffs they love the most and get feedback and opinion from other people sharing the same interest. In a forum, visitor can even provide high quality content by starting a post on a certain topic.

2. Blog.

   Blog is also one of the great way to stimulate visitor's participation. With the commenting feature available in almost every blog, not only visitors are able to share their piece of thought, they could also start off a new conversation altogether based on the blog post.

3. Mini Site.

   This type of site pops up a whole lot more lately. The most common usage are for sales pages and squeeze pages. Normally this type consists only of 2 to 3 web pages. The sales letter, a thank you page and affiliate page if applicable.

4. Web Store.

   Exactly as the type says, this type of page is an online store. The product type sold can be virtually anything. This type of sites are equipped with a shopping cart and a complete listing of their products.

5. Informational Site.

   This is the most common sites created. This type of site covers news website, corporate website, and all types of site that provide useful information for visitors.

6. Hybrid Site.

   Webmasters are now getting more adept in combining these types of sites together. Not only the combination helps with the search engines, but also provides wider variety of ways for them to interact with the site visitors. The most common scenario is an informational sites setting up a blog and evolved further by taking a forum into the mix. Bigger sites are combining all these types of sites for their growth.

What type of site will you be creating should you have the chance?

How does XML sitemap look like

A very basic XML sitemap that contains one URL will look something as follow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <url>
      <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
      <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
      <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
      <priority>0.8</priority>
   </url>
</urlset>

Check out sitemaps.org for further details on all the available tags and how to implement them.

How to Generate Sitemaps Easily

Depending on the system and the hosting you are using, there are different ways to generate sitemap.

1. Create it yourself. This option is only good when you do not have a lot of pages in your site. But if you have more than 10 pages, I do not recommend creating the sitemaps yourself. It is a headache.
2. Use readily available sitemap generator. This is the better option, and moreover it is freely available, so why not?

Easy to Use Sitemap Generator

If you are using WordPress, it is quite easy to get a sitemap. Just install the sitemap plug-in for wordpress and your sitemap will be generated and submitted automatically to search engines.

For others, use the tool provided by XML Sitemap. This is a very good tool that will crawl all the available location in your site and generates the corresponding sitemap. Remember to check the generated sitemap though, since there are some pages that you would not want google, yahoo or MSN to index.

What To Do With Generated Sitemap?

After you have a sitemap, it is time to submit it to the search engines so they can start crawling your site. See the procedure on submitting web pages to Google, Yahoo and MSN. Although there are more search engines out there, most probably you just need to submit your sitemap to the biggest search engines.

The internet world has been swept by Web 2.0 storm. Blogs and blogging in general is one of the main contributor in the web 2.0. phenomena where social media are getting more attention. Blogging starts of only as a way to express oneself; call it an online diary if you like. After tweaking and exposures to the internet world though, blogging has shifted in direction. Nowadays, more and more blogs are going live as a way of self actualization in the internet world. People get more focused and blog in a specific direction, not as general as it originally was.

A free publishing method

Blogging could also be considered as a free publishing method. With blogs in hand, we are able to release contents without going through the hassle of contacting a publishing company, reviewers and all those traditional rushes that traditional publishing have. Even better, for bloggers, we are giving out information in the form of opinions and personal experiences which resulted in a more intimate relationship with readers.

Blogging also leverage social communication through the means of commenting. By commenting, bloggers and site owners get to know each other. And who knows, a joint venture might just sprung

Looking forward

Due to this leverage, more and more information can be attained through blogs. Be it through the original article that was written by the blog owner and even more resources from the comment section where visitor actually left their thought. In response to these high quality contents, people and companies are starting to advertise in blogs relevant to their field. This resulted in some people actually making huge amount of full-time income through blogging.

Some bloggers are really going big and become an authority figure in their respective areas, take for example Yaro Starak who gain his success through entrepreneurs-journey, Jeremy Schoemaker in his blog shoemoney, Brian Clark through copyblogger and Daren Rowse through ProBlogger. These people started off doing what they love and blog about it.

Starting Out to Blog

How do you start blogging? there are a lot of blogging platform out there. The most popular at the time of writing is blogger and WordPress. These blogging platform not only offer ease of setting up, they also offer free hosting to start with.

If you are really interested in becoming a professional blogger, join the blog mastermind program by Yaro Starak, there's a ton of great information and helps provided. If you want to know the quality of Yaro's material, feel free to download the blog profit blueprint here. It is free and available for public.

Hope you have fun if you plan on blogging

You get more than just a "site builder." You don't need to worry about looking for separate hosting, paying for a separate keyword research tool, handling site submissions, integrating autoresponders, etc., etc. See the full list of features here . SBI! is the only product that takes the time to prepare you to build a profitable business before even building your site. For the beginner, your learning curve will be shorter and you'll bypass any show-stopping errors. For those experienced in site-building, SBI! deepens your level of understanding. No matter who you are, you are guided all the way until you succeed.

Too many non-SBI! sites start without profits being "built into" the process from DAY 1. It all begins with the right process. Content Traffic PREsell Monetize is the underlying, logical and powerful process that capitalizes upon the fundamental realities of how people use the Web. C T P M puts you on a solid, profitable business foundation.

How SBI helps Niche choosing, SEO and analytics

Choosing your best site concept is not always as obvious as you might think. Brainstorm It! and Niche Choose It! show you the best path for your particular business, reveal some surprises, and help you make the right choice. Brainstorm It! is SBI!'s powerful keyword brainstorming and research tool. It helps you verify that your site concept has acceptable profit potential. SBIers are saved from making that common fatal error. With Brainstorm It!'s help, they know they are on track, right from the start. Brainstorm It! also helps you to find topics related to your niche that will pull in traffic and generate income.

Since SBI! is compatible with popular HTML editors (ex., Dreamweaver) and image tools (ex., Photoshop, Flash, etc.), you can easily use advanced page-building techniques, if you like. This allows for maximum creative flexibility for all skill levels.

SBI! includes domain name analysis, optimization, and registration. You will develop the best name for maximum profitability in your niche. (It's often different than what you had planned.)

When it's time to create your site's Look & Feel, SBI! provides fully customizable, easy-to-use templates. You can choose and create a professional-looking presentation, even if you have no design skills. And if you're a designer, you can create and upload your own. This page shows a range of styles.

You learn to "get it right" quickly (or correct bad habits) so you can focus on other traffic-building strategies. (These are also easily mastered due to "automation-and-process.")

To announce your site to Search Engines, you need to submit a specialized file called a "Sitemap XML" file. SBI! does it all automatically, a huge time saver, that enables you to quickly achieve wider distribution and attract more targeted free traffic.

Search Engine spider/listing/ranking reports let you see how your pages are being handled by the Search Engines. You can see what pages rank best and drive traffic. Each report's insights help you to determine how to increase traffic and monetization. Most pros don't have easy and reliable access to this type of information.

PREselling is a concept "invented" by SiteSell, part of the C T P M process. The concept is simple. As small business people, you do not have a brand name that is known and trusted. So you have to build that before you can monetize. Seems obvious, right? So few people do it, or they don't do it right, online.

SBI! has a no-risk, 30-day money back guarantee. It's a risk-free decision that you can make with confidence and peace of mind.

The various HQs ("Traffic," "Tips 'n Techniques," "Resources," "Monetization" and several others) keep you on the cutting edge of all that you need to know. No other "outside reading" is necessary (except for info related to your own business, of course). There are membership sites that charge hundreds (even thousands) of dollars for this type of invaluable information.

A little SBI background

SBI is using the tortoise as their mascot, the tortoise approach symbolizes SBI!'s steady-and-sure approach. There's obviously no such thing as get-rich-quick and keeps you from getting distracted by false promises or dead-end tools and strategies that end up costing more money. Experienced users will appreciate avoiding time-wasters that don't help you succeed. Think of it as a simple, direct, hype-free path that leads to success.

SiteSell.com was established by Dr. Ken Evoy in 1997. His series of books have helped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses. Make Your Content PREsell! and Make Your Words Sell!, formerly books sold by SiteSell, are now free. They are literally the dynamic duo of "Web-writing."

The most commonly used web CMS are written in PHP due to the fact that the amount of money needed to set these up is very minimum and most of the web hosting today support PHP and MySQL.  Check out these best of the best PHP based CMS:

• WordPress - Meant to be a CMS made specifically to handle blogs but due to the features offered, user can even create a full website using WordPress. There is a huge community backing up WordPress and a lot of themes and plugins are developed for free.
• Drupal - A CMS that aims to be the easiest to use. User can see real time update of whatever layout changes made through the control panel.
• Joomla - Used by a lot of professional websites. Joomla is a great CMS that manages all the content and details of web sites.
• CMSMadeSimple - A new open source CMS that has been gaining exposures for its ease of use.

What to look out for - hosting recommendation

After trying out services from several hosting companies, there are only several web hosting companies worth mentioning due to their great customer support and ease of use of their customized cpanel interface. Their cheapest hosting price ranges from 4$ to 10$ per month which makes it a sound enough investment since you own the whole site. As opposed to their free counterpart, your site is placed under their mercy (except for some free hosting that provides upgrade to premium accounts). The hosting companies below are providing free site builder (mostly only for 1 domain though), fantastico enabled and FTP server. You are also given an option to register a domain name using their service for free.

1. HostGator
2. Dreamhost
3. Bluehost
4. Lunarpages
5. Hostmonster

There is another web hosting worth mentioning, Site Build It. It is pretty expensive (sold at 299 USD) compared to the hosting companies listed above. The reasoning behind the price is because Site Build It not only provides web hosting but it also provides a huge assortment of material that will help you establish your site (or your business as they call it) and coach you from choosing your topic all the way up to pouring in content. This provider even gives away free materials that you could use to help growing your site even without registering for their service. Take a look at the great coaching materials from SiteBuildIt and decide for yourself whether you should register for their service.

Why a premium domain registrar

Depending on your need, you might prefer a separate hosting and domain provider. A specialized domain provider would normally be able to handle selling back a domain that you have bought (usually called reseller), covering up your who is information (registrant name that will appear if somebody look up the registration information of the domain), email account on your domain and even as far as selling you other extensions (dot biz, dot info, dot org, etc.) that your domain might have with a very low price as a package.

Domain registrars I found that come with low prices and great deals are godaddy and namecheap. Both offer a lot of enhancement to the standard domain name purchase (as covered above) for a low price of around 4 dollars to 10 dollars a month. You could even bid for a taken domain name if the particular domain really interests you. Furthermore, there are a lot of coupons available for you to choose before payment; just head over to google and look for "godaddy coupon" or "domaincheap coupon".  And even better, if you sign up to their newsletter, they will also update you on every promotion that they currently have. Have fun registering your domain!!

The main consideration before getting a free web hosting is whether the hosting provides upgrade scheme so that you can expand your storage size and bandwidth without more works of re-uploading all the site's file to another hosting. Secondly is to make sure whether the hosting provides enough storage space and bandwidth in the beginning. And third is whether the hosting provides the scripting engines that you would use for your website (such as PHP, ASP, mySQL, postgreSQL, etc.). Last but not least is whether it provides a user interface that helps out the process of setting up your website (most of the  web hosting available would use a software called cpanel to do this function). Other consideration might include whether it provides webmails, free templates and FTP server to further ease the website creation process.

I found 2 free hosting providers that are worth mentioning. But after closing my account in one of the provider resulted in insults from their administrator (they even sent me an email saying "fuck you" for not using their service any longer); so that drops me down to only one hosting provider worth mentioning.

That great free hosting provider is 000webhost. The service given is considered great for a free webhosting. The service that they provide includes 1500 MB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth. 000Webhost is cpanel enabled so it will be easier to take care of your hosting administrative tasks. Even better, 000Webhost also provides upgrade to premium web hosting with a lot more advantages compared to the free scheme with a very low cost monthly. The site propagation was also done in quite a short amount of time.

Best 3 free domain names registrar
After looking around and personal tryouts, there are some truly great and free domain providers. These providers are:

1. Dot Co Dot Cc is a free domain name provider. Domains will end with a .co.cc (dot co dot cc). Great option if you want a domain name of your own. The only limitation is that you can only register 2 domain names per account. Other than that, this domain name register is a great option to consider. Visit the provider here: www.co.cc.
2. Dot Tk domain name will end with a .tk. dot tk offers free and premium domain names. A necessity is that you have a ready made website (such as http://xxxx.blogger.com/). This domain is great to use if you have a website registered under a free webhosting that still have a long and not informative URL. Visit the provider here: www.dot.tk.
3. Dot Co Dot Nr is a free domain name provider. There are no forced ads, but in order to use .co.nr services, your website must have a link back to .co.nr to be placed in the main page. This domain provider forbids mass-emailing. It must be registered by an individual (not a business entity). And it also have 2 months inactivity limit. Visit the provider here: www.freedomain.co.nr.

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