Learn how to create a high ranking website can be simple with the right information. Even if you are a computer novice like me.

Why create a website? You may have a current off line business and would like your piece of online real estate and open up global markets. You may have a goal to start on online business by taking your passion and making a website so you can share your message with the world. You may be looking to supplement you current income or work from home full time.

Your goal should be learning how to make a website that ranks high with the Search Engines so you can be found by the surfers. Why have a website.

The website should attract people to you (called your target market). The reasons they are attracted to you is that you provide solutions to their problems. You provide valuable content that is free to the visitors. This is what the search engines love because the visitor to your site will continue to use the same search engine that led them to the answers of their problems. Since you provided the valuable content that attracted the visitors, the search engines reward you with a high ranking. Your goal is to be listed on the first page of the four major search engines or your site will not get found by the surfers. No traffic means No money.

This is my story; I was a computer novice less than 24 months ago. I was great at sending e-mails and surfing the net and that was it. Now, I have a top ranking site and I would like to share what I learned. A couple of years ago I wanted to start an online business but did not know how to start with my limited skills.

Here is how to cut tons of research time by following what I learned. You may not understand some of this terminology at first so hang in there.

1. You need to find a great low cost host company that offers website building for the novices with step by step video instructions and written instruction. The host company should also offer support, online marketing training, forums, domain names and keyword search tools.

2. Choose the right Domain Name. Your domain name should consist of the name of your website main theme. Your keywords should have a high demand (visitors searching) but not too broad. For example travel would be too broad but online travel agent narrows this niche down. Your domain name should end with.com.

3. Develop your site blueprint for easy navigation with tier 2 pages listed on buttons on the left hand side of your home page. I recommend at least 10 plus tier two pages that contain keyword with high demand that related to your main theme. I recommend several tier 3 pages that link to a tier two page that relate to the tier two's main theme. Your site structure should look like a pyramid with your home page at the top and 80 plus tier three pages.

4. I recommend writing your own keyword focus content pages that tells a story in your own style that gives solutions and offers value to the visitors who will come back to your site for more. The search engines measure the human visitor's activity on your site. I would choose your passions and expertise because it would be easier to write your own content and not seem like work.

5. Get links into your site is a measure of other people's approval that they like your website and is recognize by the search engines.

It takes time and work to build your online business just like any off line business. But with the right tools and information, it can be a lot of fun to be in control of your own destiny.