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After your files are
successfully transferred, you’ll come across the following screen
Your site is up! Type in the
URL in your browser and check that every page is showing as you expected it
to be. To be doubly sure, check in both Internet Explorer and Netscape
navigator. The page could show differently on the two browsers, or even on
different versions of the same one.
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Step 4: URL redirection
services
When you set up your site on a free Web hosting service, the URL you get
wouldn’t be very easy to remember. If you’ve got those long URL blues
and want a shorter or more personal Web address, then you could make use of
the free URL redirection services available on the Web. These sites for
instance, replace http://something/members/~trouble/yourname with
www.yourname.cjb.net.e
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Step 5: Launch your site
at search engines
What is the point of having a site if the world doesn’t know about it? So,
after you’ve designed and uploaded your site, it’s very necessary to let
people know of your site’s existence. One of the most important things you
could do to increase traffic to your site is getting listed in the major
search engines. There are two ways to do it:
Automated submission
There are a few sites on the Net that quickly submit your Website to many
search engines at once. This is easy, but usually produces only mediocre
results.
Sites that do the
submitting for you:
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