The Building Blocks of a Successful Website
Author info: This guest post was written by Alan Johnson. He teaches you how to build a profitable website in 10 days over at TheRatingBlog.com
Are you interested in achieving worthwhile results as an online entrepreneur? Are you interested in getting on top and staying there? Then, my friend, making sure that your project is built on a solid foundation to begin with is simply a must.
Let’s assume that you did your share of brainstorming and have come up with an idea you consider great.
The natural reaction in such cases is getting started right away. There’s nothing to be ashamed of, we are all humans and such a reaction is perfectly understandable. That doesn’t mean that you should let it get the best of you.
Due to the fact that they are eager to get started right away, most webmasters end up neglecting the building blocks of a successful website and, there’s no doubt about it, this approach will come back
to haunt them down the road. You should never let the initial excitement keep you from analyzing things objectively if you are serious about long-term success.
So you have an idea which you think has excellent potential? That’s an important first step, but rushing into something is never a wise decision. Everything should start with a solid business model and
solid goals. How will you be providing value through your website? How do you plan on approaching your market? What do you want to achieve with this project in the long run? These are just a few of the
important questions you should be asking yourself before even thinking about publishing a website.
Alright then, now that you have a business plan and your goals as a foundation, it’s time to get started. From content to design, you should make sure that you do everything right before launching your
website. You may want to get started right away and feel tempted to just write some content for the sake of it and set things in motion. Never make that mistake. Creating quality content is definitely a
must, and doing it in advance is always recommended. Of course, you shouldn’t create content for the next century and use that as an excuse for not getting started, but you should always have something
set aside just in case. After all, you don’t want to be taken by surprise in case you will not have time or inspiration in order to create content at a certain point, do you?
You have a solid business plan and goals, a working website and content, now what? Since you are ready to get started, you can do just that and now it’s time to give it 110% in order to promote your website and let the world know about it. Having a great resource is indeed extremely important, but achieving worthwhile results without promoting it is next to impossible. After your website is live, it is extremely important that you always find the right balance between publishing quality content on a regular basis and website promotion.
From business plan and goals to content and promotion, the building blocks of a successful website should never be neglected if you are serious about long-term success. What about you? Are you paying enough attention to each and every one of them?
Best wishes,
Alan Johnson
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By Make Money Online on Mar 12, 2008
My mistake all over. The next project has planning time been set aside as I type this ;o)
By Dining Tables on Mar 12, 2008
Good guest post. Alan Johnson makes sense. Thanks
By Alan Johnson on Mar 13, 2008
Glad you’ve enjoyed it, being a guest blogger is always a pleasure :)
By Nicole Price on Mar 13, 2008
Bang on. I have made the mistake of rushing into one of my sites with some ‘not great’ content thinking I will fix it later once everything else is taken care of. It is still waiting for my attention!
By MandS on Mar 13, 2008
Alan Johnson is right. If you don’t have a good plan, it means that your business will fail! No matter what you gonna do, make a plan and set goals for the next 6 month. It will help a lot!
By Rice Blogger on Mar 13, 2008
yup…that is true…i have learn that myself in a hard way….good planing is essential
By Yeast Infection on Mar 13, 2008
I’ve rushed in to doing things on many an occasion. Time to sit back and come up with some sort of plan at least, set some goals and then see if i get a better ROI at the end.
By Ades on Mar 14, 2008
As the url of this article says, i always sleep on my idea. If the idea can survive my sleep and if I am still enthusiastic about it in the morning as I was last night. Then, I will start working on it.
Sadly, most ideas won’t survive… next morning some of them even sound ridiculous ;)
Great post Alan, thanks for your guest post!
By Goran Giertz - Marketing on Mar 14, 2008
Great Post Alan. There is so much more to a website then just the design.
By PS3 on Mar 14, 2008
I was chatting to a SEO friend of mine about this the other day. Most of what he says tends to go over my head but he did make sense when he talked about planning.
His latest project (which admittedly involved 5 linked sites) took 2 weeks of jotting on paper to plan in terms of SEO, even before he touch a web design.
Fail to plan, plan to fail.
By Futon-Matt on Mar 15, 2008
This was definitely a well thought out post :)
Sorry, I agree with what you wrote. I definitely didn’t plan as much as I should have before I designed my futon website and there are still things that I should be tweaking.
By Web Marketing Expert on Mar 16, 2008
Without foundations you can not build a skyscraper, never 4get that!
By SEOrious Results on Mar 16, 2008
There can be no doubt that regularly generating quality content should be part of a succesful website plan. This ensures repeat visits, and shows authority to search engine bots.
By edunwa on Mar 27, 2008
truly, there is more to a website than just the mere design .thanks