A quick guide for building your own website quickly, for under $200 annually, that you’ll use to rank in Google.
Website Setup Step by Step (simple version)
- Buy a domain name (use Godaddy.com)
- Setup Gmail account matching your domain name.
- Buy hosting with SSL included (Godaddy Managed Wordpress)
- Setup a new Google Analytics account
- Install google analytics in the head of your wordpress theme
- Make a logo with Canva and install on site
- Start adding content! This is what will drive visibility to your site.
Website Setup Considerations
Your Gmail account will be used for all other accounts that need to be created. You don’t want to use your personal email for anything related to your website. I typically look for the gmail email address to be the exact match of my domain name, but this is not required.
For example, before starting this site I registered [email protected]. Now all my additional setups use that email.
These are just notes from my experience. I’ve built several different websites, some failures, and some highly successful at driving traffic via google organic search results.
The most important thing to consider when building your website is this:
Just START.
MAKE something.
Get out of the ideation phase and get some real world feedback for one of your ideas.
Good luck, and reach out with any questions 🙂