In order for your content website to succeed, you would need to attract a lot of traffic to it. The search engine rankings of your website for your specified keywords would be the basis of your failure or success.

If you are a novice in search engine optimization or SEO and you do not have sufficient knowledge on what the steps are to make your website rank higher on the search engines, then you would need the web host which would be able to assist and guide you in doing that.

The web host that would be best for your content website should:

1. Offer a reasonable cost for their services

2. Provide fast and reliable hosting services

3. Have no initial fee for set up

4. Already include the domain name registration in the hosting charges

5. Offer unlimited data transfer

6. Have email customer service

7. Have telephone customer service

8. Offer point-and-click page building

9. Have unlimited web pages

10. Be able to provide assistance in creating your web pages to be able to make them search-engine-friendly

11. Be able to upload you web page if desired

12. Do automatic submission for each updated or new page into the search engines

13. Offer page templates to help you design your website

14. Have customized 404 error web pages

15. Include a blog site

16. Offer unlimited email accounts

17. Offer email message forwarding

18. Offer email domain forwarding

19. Have a forum where the other users could offer help or support

20. Be able to provide assistance if you want to create Google or Yahoo site maps

21. Have a point-and-click input form creation tool

22. Provides unlimited autoresponders

23. Have link builders and link exchange

24. Have the ability for uploading XML code to use for RSS pages

25. Have an ezine publishing tool

26. Have an email marketing list builder

27. Be able to generate traffic statistics and traffic analysis reports, search engine ranking reports, click tracking reports, keyword search reports and should be able to keep track of search engine spiders.