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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DoubleDie, post: 312336, member: 10132&quot;]I began my coin site in May 2007. I wanted a site where people who know little about coins can learn about them, how to collect them, and learn about the hobby in general. My slant was to provide information that would help people not get ripped off buying coins online, and to find coins they wanted on ebay. Also, I wanted to provide coin news and guides for the reader.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m still in the process of adding material, and always will be. I average 16.71 hits a day, and have a couple pages ranked on google. It has been a slow process, but rewarding because I taught myself how to design, and optimize my website.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I use <a href="http://www.bravenet.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bravenet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bravenet.com/</a> as my hosting site. They have a lot of features, and a help board. I haven&#039;t had any problems with their service. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I use <a href="http://www.web page-maker.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.web page-maker.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.web page-maker.com/</a> to create my pages, and sometimes use Front Page. With webpage maker you don&#039;t need a lot of HTML experience, and although the software is easy to use, it has some limitations.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also, google has a free page maker <a href="http://pages.google.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pages.google.com/" rel="nofollow">http://pages.google.com/</a> I recommend an account with google for many informational reasons. I use their analytics to track page visits, keyword searches, etc.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After decide on a domain name and hosting service, and before you even design your first page, submit your domain name to google, yahoo and msn.com. Because it will take a awhile to get indexed and you want your domain waiting in line, so when you do publish your first page then you will have a head start on getting indexed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These three are the most important search engines on the web. If you&#039;re site is not on google and yahoo then you will hurt your web traffic and business. Bravenet has an option to submit to the top sites for free, or you can pay to have them submit it to more.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Points you must learn about is... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Getting other sites pointing to your site by link exchange with other coin sites, or in coin auction sites user profiles, and coin forums. Google uses this as a big part of their site ranking criteria. The more sites that point to your site, the more relevant your site is too search engines.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Learn about key words and key word phrases. For example, if you wanted to buy Cents online what would you enter into your search field so you could find the sites you&#039;re looking for? If you just use Lincoln Cents in your meta tag then you will be competing with 400,000 + sites, and you don&#039;t want to start out trying to compete with sites already established.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Use phrases like &quot;buy Lincoln cents&quot;, Lincoln cents for sale&quot;, &quot;find Lincoln cents&quot;, etc. Also, each page should have different meta tag key words, and phrases. For example, you want to optimize each page so that you maximize your chances of someone only interested in buying Lincoln cents visit your pages, and that is your target audience. This is called organic searches. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So you can have a page for each date or series of dates so that you can use as many key words and key word phrases as possible. You can have a wheat page, memorial page, proof page, key date page, mint error page, etc. These are just examples, I&#039;m sure you can see what I&#039;m driving at.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your home page should download fast so that people can get instant feedback or they will click off the page, tired of waiting for it to load.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, this post is getting too long, but if you want some help then send me a pm. I will close with just one more item, there is always room for another coin site. I just recommend specializing and offering site visitors something they don&#039;t get on other sites. I hope this helps you in your decision.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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