Tutorials
Getting Started
You may find these articles from my Into iSpace site useful for choosing a name for your site, and finding a good photo to use in the banner for your site (and on your card).
I also recommend reading Seth Godin's excellent guide to creating an effective website: KnockKnock (PDF, 6.4 MB). This will help you to think through what it is that you want your site to achieve.
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Search Engine Optimisation
As part of setting up your site we will create "meta keywords" for your whole site that will help search engines to correctly categorise it, and I will submit your site to Google, Bing and Yahoo for indexing. Please note that you can also specify extra meta keywords for specific pages - see Setting SEO keywords per page.
For more advanced SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) I suggest you read:
As part of setting up your site we will create "meta keywords" for your whole site that will help search engines to correctly categorise it, and I will submit your site to Google, Bing and Yahoo for indexing. Please note that you can also specify extra meta keywords for specific pages - see Setting SEO keywords per page.
For more advanced SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) I suggest you read:
- How To Get Google To Love You In Just 4 Months. Lots of good advice.
- Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization. An indepth starters guide to SEO.
Using Facebook
Another excellent way to drive traffic to your site is to also set up a Facebook Fan Page for your site. When people become Fans of your Facebook Page then their friends see this as well, which can alert them to your site. Put your site address onto your Facebook Page and ask people to write recommendations about your service on the page's Wall.
Read Facebook's FacebookPagesManual to learn how to create and use Pages.
Read Facebook's FacebookPagesManual to learn how to create and use Pages.