How to Create Your Website Blueprint

You need to create a website blueprint right after you choose the niche to aim for. Even before you purchase hosting or a domain name, you need to plan your website thoroughly. You need a strategy to develop it, and you will want to proceed in a way that will end up with a killer site.

You should build your site with ease of navigation in mind. That means both humans and robots should be able to travel through your pages easily. You site should be built first for your browsers or customers, with the search engine robots kept in mind at all times.

Develop the layout of your site in such a way to not only provide a logical path for your surfers, but also to give the search engines their content in such a way that each and every page will have keyword focus.

A three tier layout is recommended by many internet marketers. Start with your homepage at the top of the pyramid. Then, put navigation in your home page to six to ten second tier pages, at least to start with. Each second tier page will have the same navigation as the home page, pointing to the home page and other second tier pages, along with links to 6-7 pages that are dedicated to sub-topics of the second tier page.

This is where your keyword research earlier pays off. See the page "Choose a Topic or Niche". Each of the pages in your site should have a topic that focuses on a specific keyword or keyword phrase. That way, each page in your site will have it's own value in the search engines, and you can bring in visitors through lots of doorways.

Internal links count with the search engines too, so anytime you can naturally link one of your pages to another, do it. When you have finished making your blueprint, it is time to select a web host.

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