How to make your own website for beginners.  You would think in this day and age of computers and advances made with the internet that it would be relatively straightforward and easy to make your own website, yet, as you may have personally found, sometimes you can spend hours trawling the web trying to find the perfect tools for your requirements.

Perhaps you are one of these individuals who still does not know how to make your own website from scratch?

Perhaps you are confused, you've spent hours if not days trying to find the perfect website building tool for your needs and still not turned up anything?

Ideally, you want a tool where you can pick out a suitable template to use, fill in a few simple boxes, such as your website title, description, the various buttons and sub pages that you want to see used upon your website, add content and at the end you just want to click a button which automatically creates the whole website for you, in double quick time, making the entire process quite literally as painless as possible.

What's more, you don't want to use a sub domain name which isn't going to do your search engine optimization any good at all.  What you do want is to be able to use your very own domain name and to effortlessly host your website on your own server.

Until now, such services online have always cost the earth, making it cost prohibitive for many people, especially in this economic downturn, when it is all important to keep your development costs as low as possible.

There are tools available though which can help you to achieve all of this and more, starting from just a few dollars, if you know where to find such services online.  Now you really can find out for yourself how to make your own website, design it completely in just a few minutes, add content, upload it to your own server using your own domain name and voila, your website is launched, ready for business, ready to go.

No need is there anymore to search for days on end to find the perfect tool - how to make your own website, but there are other considerations that you want to take into account, to save you further hard earn't cash and a lot of time if you want to know how to make your own website.

First thing you'll need is a domain name and a generic keyword one at that.  You don't want to be using a brandname is the point here.  If you do go this route, that is, a brandname domain name, you could end up having to pay a high cost in terms of time spent and capital outlay.

To choose a generic domain, first you'll need to do some keyword research.

Let's get a couple of tabs open in your browser for starters.

First website you'll want to go to is the Google External Keyword Tool, just type that into your browser window as it is shown here, no need to put .com or anything else on the end, just write it as it is and the website, after you click on Enter, will show up automatically.

They'll be a small white box almost in the center of the screen.  Put a word that describes your intended website in here, for example, if the website you have in mind is to be about 'scuba diving', you might put the words Scuba Diving alongside each other in that box.  Next fill in the captcha code, then click on Get Keyword Ideas.  Wait two seconds and the results will appear below.

The top result on this keyword list is likely to be Scuba Diving.  Follow the data shown along on that line from left to right.  You'll see a box first, you can ignore that, the next column is Approx Search Volume (Month), there you will see a figure which shows you the approximate number of times that people were looking for this keyword phrase at Google for the previous month, the next set of figures to the right of this will be the Average Monthly Search Number throughout the course of the year.

You want this figure typically to be over 500 searches per month, the higher the number, the better.

The next tab I want you to open in your browser is your domain registration company of choice, everyone has their favorite.  In their search box I want you to type in the keyword/s to see if the domain name is available.  In this example, I would tpye in ScubaDiving & Scuba-Diving with the dash, hyphen in the middle, separating the two words, this increases the chances of finding an available domain name to register.  I would then tick the extensions that I want to search these domains under and my preference would be to tick first the .com followed by the .org and last but not least the .net - I'd forget about using any others unless your site is aimed at a particular geographical part of the world, then you might want to look under for example .ca (Canada) or .co.uk (UK) or .de (Germany) or .fr (France) or .es (Spain) etc etc.

If the domain is available under the .com the .org or the .net I would keep that page open for a few minutes.

Next tab to open would be the Google homepage.  When it is open I would type into the search box the keyword/s, in this example, exactly like this:  "Scuba Diving" and hit search.  The results as you know will show up within a second or less normally.  See the blue bar at the top of the page?  Look to the right on that blue bar.  It will tell you the number of competing websites that are targeting the keyword/s, if this number is less than 200,000 give or take, then go back to your domain registration company and register the domain for yourself.  The minimum period of time you can register a domain name for is one year, costing $5-10.00 per year.

In the Google External Keyword Tool, if the top result is not available as a domain name, keep looking all the way down, looking for searches over 500 per month, then to Google Search to find out how many competing websites are targeting that keyword/s, then to your domain registration company to find out if the domain is available just as I've explained above.

After typically a few minutes you should have a natural keyword domain name which you can use for your brand new website, which will be excellent for your sites natural search engine optimization and traffic / visitor results.

Now, you go back to your website builder of choice and start building, creating your website using your keywords within the content to give you the best chance of ranking very highly for those keywords - this will send you a lot more natural hot traffic, people who are really interested in your product or service.

How to make your own website really can be very easy if you are armed first with some excellent advice, take these simple tips on board and there is no reason why you too, should not be reaping the benefits of your labor and hopefully seeing a good return on your time expended and money spent.