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Now the first two steps to set up your very own website is firstly to get web hosting and then to register

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your domain name.

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Now web hosting will really allow you to store your Web site online so that people can access it all

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over the world on your domain name will be for example your company name dot com and that's your web

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address so people really know where to access your site.

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So there are plenty of places where you can complete these two steps but I would recommend blue Post.com.

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They are the company that I use personally.

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They've never let me down.

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And also at I've organized a pretty cool discount for you guys if you want to check it out.

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The link is in the description.

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You get a free domain which will save you about $15 and then you can also get a 60 percent discounts

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on your web hosting.

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So in the first year you'll probably have saved $75 if you clicked the link in the description but you

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can feel free to use any web hosts you want and the steps that are going to walk through in this video

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are pretty much going to be exactly the same.

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So either click on the link and you're going to come to a page like this.

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And then he can click get started.

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Now and then we need to select our web hosting plan.

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And there are a couple of options here.

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But I think for most people you're going to select the basic plan that's 295 per month with the discount.

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And that means you can host one Web sites online and the only other option you might be considering

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is the plus plan.

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So for a little bit more you can have unlimited web sites and hosts them.

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And why would you want to do that.

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Well maybe if you're thinking of setting up a couple of Web sites or maybe even you're creating web

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sites and managing them for people then this is a very affordable plan to select.

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But I think for most people you're just going to want to be selecting the basic plan.

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And I do want to explain a little bit further now.

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Why do you even need web hosting in the first place.

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If you've never set up a Web site it's a bit of a alien concept because we just post stuff to Facebook

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YouTube for free.

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And actually those companies absorb that hosting costs themselves.

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They have to pay for data centers with servers on them.

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And so unfortunately they won't pay for it when it's our own site and that's why we have to pay for

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it.

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Essentially we're buying here a little bit of space on a server in a database somewhere.

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And that's why we pay when we set up or when we're on Web site and we never pay when we upload teach

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the big cetra because they really cover the cost.

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So I think I've heard people find that explanation helpful.

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And so now that you understand why I need hosting I think and you know the plan to select Let's go ahead

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and select this base plan here.

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Now here comes the exciting part.

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We need to get our free demain.

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And so what you really want to do is think about your business name and type it in here.

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So in terms of picking a domain name I would try and keep it as short as possible.

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Less than 20 characters.

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You want it to be something that rolls off the tongue easily.

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So if you said it in conversation they would remember that that was your web address and it's more important

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to have a domain name that is brand double and memorable rather than a domain name that has loads of

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your keywords in them because actually having keywords in your domain name is not going to really help

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you rank in the search engines.

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It might give a clue about what your business is about.

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So try to include them if you can but don't have like 10 keywords stick together.

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People are never going to remember that they're never going to type that in.

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So you want to keep it as short as possible.

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So if you're creating a new domain you can type it in here or you also have this option if you bought

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a domain previously to go ahead and sign up.

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So I'm going to just put in WP So WordPress set up demo and then we get to select our domain ending.

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You can see now it's on our current UK and I would try and get the dot com if you can if it's available.

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That's what people remember the most.

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Seems like the most trustworthy.

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They don't have to think about what's the domain ending but there are other options out there you can

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see them here at dot org is very popular for charities.

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Daco is becoming more popular as well for startups and new companies.

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But for now I'm just going to buy the dot.com and then click next.

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So now we need to go and flater account information.

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So I'm just going to take a couple of moments to fill this all out.

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So once you fill out your account information then you just want to read your package information and

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you can see by default here.

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There will probably be a couple of options selected by default.

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So I'll just explain what each of these options are.

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And then you can decide whether you want to leave them enabled or not.

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So the first one is the main privacy protection.

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So what is this about.

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Well the reason you might want to keep this is because there is a site called Who Is dot com and I'll

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just put in an example site here.

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Roadstar is dot com.

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And on this site people can find the phone number and the e-mail that you would have put in when you

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registered your domain name.

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Now a lot of people don't want that information public.

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You might get a couple of random e-mails or maybe even a phone call.

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So some people say like this domain is privacy protection option so they don't get that.

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Now personally I don't mind if I get a random e-mail so I can save myself really a dollar just by doing

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that.

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No side back pro this is an option maybe you should leave in Naples.

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Essentially what this will do will back up your size.

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Especially if you've a big sigh with a lot of content on this and you may be changing content.

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You may be editing the code something like that something breaks and you need to get your backup version

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so that you can get your site back up and running for this demo site that setting up I'm not going to

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select that but I think that is a good option for a lot of people.

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Now site security again there's more information there.

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Am I going to show you a couple of things to do to secure your site so you don't need that option.

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Then once you're ready all you need to do is type in your payment information which I'm going to take

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a minute to do now.

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OK I've typed in my payment information there.

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And then you just want to select I've read the terms and agreements and click submit.

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OK so great.

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Our purchase was successful and a confirmation has been sent to our e-mail address.

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And before we can log in as it says here We need to create a password next step then is just go ahead

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and insert a secure password and it'll give you an indication of how strong that is so I would recommend

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you try to make that strong so your side stays secure and then you can just say I've read the terms

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and agreements and click next.

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So they'll give us the OPs near to pick a team what we'll actually do is just skip this step.

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OK we're all done.

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Now I am getting a notification here that they will update my domain automatically as soon as it's ready.

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So that's good to know.

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You might see a similar notification and then we can just go ahead and click Start building.

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So here we are now in the back end of our brand new Web site.

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And if you want to take a look at what it looks like it's come up to welcome come up to visit site and

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we can see that this is what our side is really looking like now.

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It's pretty basic so far not a lot of content on it but we're going to be making this really look incredible

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and adding content to it.

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But that really wraps up the first steps to setting up your site registering domain name getting hostessing

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and installing WordPress.