We now have our domain activated, as outlined in Step 2.  The next step is to install some sort of website content management software, so that we can edit the site.

Step 3 – Install WordPress

I highly advise using WordPress as your website content management software.  I use WordPress, rather than any other website management software, because (1) it’s free, (2) there are a huge number of available WordPress plugs that you can activate later, to achieve pretty much any functionality for your website, and (3) it’s all cloud-based, so you will be able to update your website from any computer or smartphone that has internet access.

To use WordPress to edit your website, you need to install the WordPress software on your Godaddy web server for each of your domains.  This is a lot easier than it sounds, and you can do it by following the 9 steps below.

So you’ve registered a domain name and purchased web hosting.  Well done — you’ve taken the first step in setting up your own website.  If you missed it, you can learn how to do that in Step 1 of this 6-part tutorial.

Step 2 of this series will show you how to activate that website.

Step 2- Activate Your Domain

Once you have secured your domain and hosting services as described in Step 1, you need to tell your hosting company that you are ready to go live with you website.  We will walk through the process of activating your domain using GoDaddy.com.

1- To do this, open GoDaddy.com, and log in with the user name and password you created when you first set up your account with GoDaddy.

2- Click on the MY ACCOUNT/ACCOUNT STATEMENT button on the top right (see image below).

Everybody wants to be one the first page of Google.  But how do you do it?  It can be surprisingly easy.

Below, I will outline the basic strategy for getting a high Google placement.  I’ll delve into certain of these topics in more detail in subsequent posts.

1-  FIND THE RIGHT KEYWORDS

You need to start this process by asking yourself “first page for what?”  It seems a remarkably simple question, but not one that most people actually give any thought to.  The reality is that none of us are going to get on the first page for highly competitive search terms (“stop smoking”,”credit cards”, “iPhone 4″), but we can often compete for related, less popular, search terms.

So you’ve got an online business idea and now you want a website of your very own. Not one of those Blogger or other hosted blog services, but something that is uniquely your own. You checked in with a local web designer and they will do it for a high-three-figure price – but you don’t want to spend that sort of money.

Well, there is good news. You can do it yourself. You’ll need to learn a few things, but once you learn those, setting up a website is not that difficult.  Over the course of half a dozen posts, I’m going to show you the six steps you need to go through to build your own website.

1- Buy a domain and web hosting service

2- Activate your domain

3- Install WordPress to serve as the web site content management software