How to Get A Website, Step One

The first thing you need to do is come up with a domain name and see if it's available
There are a few registrars out there
Try www.godaddy.com or www.networksolutions.com

For my experiment I went to www.officelive.com
The reason I chose this route is that they offer a free 5 page website.

For this experiment, to see figure out the steps it takes to get to
a good position in the search engines, I decided to try to do it with the least amount of expense.

A free website is as good as it gets.

When I went to www.officelive.com, which is owned by Microsoft, they had a box where I typed in my desired web address, also called a URL.

I tried a couple of variations and chose www.classof2008graduation.com

It was available so...ta da...this is my first step to being a domain search expert.

Tomorrow I'll explore the tools available to getting this website built.

My Search Engine Journey

Today I begin the task of creating a place for myself in Google Search

The website name I'm going to work with is www.classof2008graduation.com

The first thing I'm going to do is see how many pages are indexed
How do I check to see if my webpages are indexed?

After a little research I discovered that all I have to do is go to google and type in
site:www.classof2008graduation.com
I hit return and got the results
It says I have 4 pages indexed. This is good. The site has 5 pages

My next step is to see how Google ranks my page importance
I'll visit each of my pages while using the google tool bar and
look at the page ranking that appears
You can see this as a bar to the right of the google search box
You do need to have the Google Task Bar loaded but it's such a good tool bar that I don't know why you wouldn't

Yikes...I have no page rank at all
Gotta figure out how to fix that. That's tonights goal. Find out how to improve search rank.