Starting Your Website - What is Yahoo Web Hosting?

What do I need to start a website? The benefits of having your own site are vast in terms of freedom and income potential.

So now what? You've probably heard that the things you need in order to start your own site are:

• Content

• Web Hosting

• Domain Name Registration (URL)

• Site Design and Coding

• Publishing/Advertising

Content refers to actual items visitors consume from your site. This is anything from text, graphics, pictures, music, sounds, videos-basically any downloadable, viewable or audible file. Even text explaining your site's purpose and contact info is considered website content.

Web hosting is the place where these files are stored and transferred. They aren't stored on your home computer. Instead you upload content to a web hosting company which stores this information on special dedicated servers-often redundant servers in multiple geographic locations. This enables site visitors to quickly load your site at any time.

The Domain Name is the web site address (www.example.com for instance). A domain registrar allows you to purchase the right to use this URL (usually renewable annual license).

A site designer and coder (may be one or two people, depending) will help place your content in a professional and beautiful way on the pages that comprise your site. They then upload everything to the web hosting company.

Last but most certainly not least, you need to publish and advertise the site online. Online marketing companies help you garner site traffic and income by submitting to search directories and driving visitors to your website. The actual search engines themselves can help you directly with some of this. But a specialized website marketing company is indispensable in this process.

There are fees at every step, but each fee is a worthwhile investment in getting your website up and running successfully.

Start your business' website today with Yahoo Web Hosting!

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