15 Days To Building A List - Day 2

Where To Start

There's 2 directions that you can take here.

You could either build a website with useful content, or publish a blog (which can be a form of a website).

If you're building a website I suggest you get paid reliable hosting, instead of free hosting. You won't get very far with free hosting, with free hosting

• You get limited bandwidth
• You don't get your own domain (you get something along the lines of freehost.com/youruser/page.html which doesn't look too good)
• Most of the free hosts put their advertising on your website (You write the content, so you should get the advertising)

For hosting a website I would suggest Hostgator (link on the right hand side of the page). I have only encountered good things from them. They're reliable, good customer service (24 online live help), good bandwidth, and decently priced. For $10 a month you can host unlimited websites.

Next is to get a domain. I go with godaddy because they have good service, and well priced. So you purchase a domain, and they will give you instructions how to set your domain to your host. It's a fairly simple process, and should only take about 20 minutes or less to do.

Ok, so now you have your website set up, and ready to go.

Now you have have to decide whether you want to use a website or a blog.

With both a blog and a website you have the deicision of linking to different categories, and writing on different subjects. A website and a blog are just two different ways of presenting content. It's just as simple as that.

It just goes down to the bottom line of how you want to present your information. Blogs is just a journal style format. The more successful bloggers categorize the content in their blog instead of just scrambling all the information. With the website format, it has a more traditional internet feel to it. Everything is there, and you can browse through the website using the sidebars (or where ever the navigation bar is).

Take some time to discover all the possibilities that CPanel has to offer.

Tomorrow, I'll show you how to set up your website or your blog (whichever format you choose), and the mistake people make.

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