Website Development Checklist

Worried how to create a website? Ensure you have covered all essential steps to create a fully optimized, SEO friendly, mobile-responsive website. Follow Gosupreneurs Hub comprehensive web development checklist to build a successful online presence.

• Identify the purpose and target audience of your website
• Know the annual cost to maintain your website (including domain name, hosting, SSL, and development charges)
• Purchase a domain name that matches your website content, brand, or business purpose
• Select a reasonable hosting plan (VPS or dedicated server)
• Develop your website using website designing technologies like JavaScript, PHP, HTML, and CSS and deploy it for testing
• Add title, description, meta tags, internal navigation links, footer, and social share links, and test in development
• Ensure the website looks good and is scrollable to facilitate adding more content
• Add about page, contact page, disclaimer, and privacy terms to your website
• Make the website mobile-optimized
• Test the website on both desktop and mobile devices
• Deploy the code to your hosting plan
• Test the performance of the live website
• Register for Google Analytics to track website traffic
• Register for Google Search Console
• Add sitemap.xml to your main directory and test in Google Console
• Request page indexing in Google Console
• Share your website link with friends, family, and other legal traffic sources
• Monitor site performance using Google PageSpeed Insights
• Monitor the site for a month or two and add necessary pages
• Plan to add your site to Google AdSense for revenue
• Run ad campaigns using Google Ads for more business leads or user views