When you think of launching a blog or website, you need to consider a lot of things which will help you in being successful in this field. It is very important to be prepared in advance, as things are inevitable. Also once you launch this website and start getting traffic then it is almost impossible to change anything in your website as it may hit branding of your website so follow these simple steps and make your website a rock star from the very first day.

Do your home work well

Before starting a blog, research well on the topic you want to write on. It is always good to keep yourself updated with the things that are most important for your blog. You also need to remember that on your blog you need to update on daily basis so be prepared for it so that you can provide quality articles to your viewers. You may find a complete guide on blogging on problogger.

Decide your niche

It is very important to decide a niche of your blog because if you have a huge topics covered under your blog then your visitors will find themselves confused in your blog’s jungle.

Design a logo for your site

It is important for you to have a perfect logo for your site and it can be done yourself or by help of a professional designer . There are lot of free online resources available to design your logo by which you can make your own logo for your website.

Check your sites compatibility in various browsers

Whenever you open a website, you need to understand that people from all over the world will access your site. So your site should be compatible in various browsers, like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera. For this you may try many tools such as netrender, browsershot etc.

Install Traffic Analytics Application

It is very important to assess the traffic that comes to your site, so that you get the real picture as to where you need to improve. Analytics Application helps you analyse the amount of traffic that is coming to your site. It also tells about the countries from where the traffic comes. This helps you in understanding your viewers and their preferences. You may install Google analytics or site meter to analyze your traffic.

Design your Website Properly

Get a proper Website Designer to work on your theme. The theme should be such that it matches the objective of your blog, and also easy to navigate. Make it easier for your reader to read and comment on your blogs.

Web Hosting

It is very important to have an important web-hosting service provider, so that you can run your website in an uninterrupted manner. We already have a huge list on various web hosting services and you need to keep lot of things in mind before choosing a good web hosting such as bandwidth, customer service, uptime etc.

Check again your site

Before launching your site, check the site and its functioning again to ensure that there are no problems in running the site. You need to do a lot of testing to get this done.

Test the Contact us form and the Subscription icon

It is very important to cross check the contact us form and subscription icon to make it easier for viewers to get back to your site easily get updates. There are lot of contact us form available which you may have on your blog.

Get a Favicon for your site

Favicon distinguishes your site from other sites, thus it is important to have a Favicon which is unique and creative. It is very easy to create Favicon and use them on your site. You can also hire a designer to create a Favicon for you and uploading a favicon is easy too. All you need to do is upload image in media directory of your blog and then take the url from there and upload it as favicon.

Title and meta tags for SEO

The titles of a post, help in the SEO of your site. Create titles which match the content of the article and are also eye-catching. The tags that are used while publishing go a long way in doing proper SEO for the site. We will soon going to have tutorials on title tags. For SEO purpose it is very important to have title and meta data mentioned of your site as it talks about your site and this needs to be done.

Spell check and grammar check

Go through your post and blog again and again to find out the mistakes in spellings and grammar if any. Also get someone else to proofread for you, as usually people who write the content are nor able to find out mistakes.

Be active on Social Media sites

Make profiles on all social networking sites and be active there. Make large number of friends who are interested in topics that you will be writing on. Initiate discussions that will help you connect with those people. You also need to create Facebook fan page , Twitter id of your blog to have a perfect branding for your blog. So do not delay in doing that. You also needs to be active on your niche forums too.

Prevent 404 error and 301 redirects

404 error and broken links tamper the image of the site when people are not able to access your site. Thus check for broken links by clicking on them, and repair them as soon as possible. Sometimes it is not possible to fix 404 error pages so for that you need to set up 404 error pages and 301 redirects hence do that in advance. You may find some beautiful 404 error pages here. You may find how to create 404 error page here.

RSS Link

Provide for an RSS Link so that your viewers can easily subscribe to your website. Do check if all links are working fine and taking users to the correct address.

Comment on your niche blogs

For promotion it is very important to comment on niche your blogs and it should be at least 100 blogs and even more because you need to make everyone aware of your blog.

Check for broken links

It is important to check broken links in your site as it effects SEO and other factors too so check it with W3C linkchecker.

Sitemap

It is advisable to add sitemap to your blog’s root directory because it lets search crawlers to index your site fast . Uploading a sitemap is an easy job and you can do it by help of various plugins such as Google XML sitemaps plugins and XML-Sitemaps.

Take back up

It is important for you to have back up of your blog as nobody wants to see his site without your precious articles so have a proper back up plan for it.

Validation

There should be 100% validation of your site , though it is not possible but you should try to have minimum errors on your site. You may check it on W3C validatior tool.

Maintain a Database of Articles

Try to build up a database of articles which can be used over a period of one to two months. This will help you by providing free time for taking care of SEO and other aspects of your blog.

Do let us know if we have missed out any important point here in below comment. Soon we will cover above mentioned topics in detail , so keep checking Loudable for more.