CONSTRUCTION

To have your site on the internet, you must first decide if it is worth paying a company to host your site or if it is better to have it hosted for free. Spending the money and owning your own site has advantages. But not having any monthly bills can be good too! If you are like me maybe you will start with a free site and work up to pay site. There are dozens of free website hosts on the internet. But in my opinion Angelfire is probably the best. They make it easy to create a website, even if you don't know html.

For your site to be index by search engines, your site must include meta tags. Meta tags tell search engines a description of your site and keywords for searches. Project Cool has a great page telling you the ins and outs of meta tags. You will also find information on embedding sounds, refreshing pages and adding a rating to your page. They also provide links to the top search engines with their requirements for url submission and meta tag specifics.

To keep track of your website you can do a number of simple things from installing a page hit counter to adding a guest book. But if you want more detailed information, I recommend Superstats. com. It will track, page hits and visitors hourly, daily, monthly. It will tell referrers, domains and tons more vital information and it can do it for free. They also have lots of other neat stuff to help improve your page.