The 18 things you must do when launching a new website

For a more comprehensive list: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-devel...</a>

Please consider cropping the number out of the title: <a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>

Next up: 24 mistakes people make when launching a website, then 41 things people who have websites should do more often, then 58 mistakes people make when maintaining websites, followed by the 4 things you should do when canceling your webhosting account.

Rand, This list is banal. About the only thing I Can agree with is installing some analytics software (preferably NOT Google Analytics) to monitor goals and traffic sources. The only thing you need to do when launching a website, or any business, is market your product off. Adding yourself to the various webmaster tools, tracking brand keywords via Google Alerts is all a huge waste of time and only makes sense (if it makes any sense at all!) once you actually have traction - links to look at, brand mentions to follow etc.<p>Ari

Excuse me, but why does this have 320 points if everyone thinks it is garbage?<p>As a newbie entrepreneur, I am utterly confused as to whether these steps really are helpful/necessary or not.

this is an awesome list -- we've been at this for almost 3 years, and while we had most of them, I just realized that we never set up Bing Webmaster Console -- given their continued rise in % (combined with Yahoo), it can't hurt.<p>other great recommendations as well -- we're also SEOMoz subscribers, so some of this is also just a great reminder about tools we're probably underutilizing

Another tool I've found very useful, that I don't see on either lists is <a href="http://www.webpagetest.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.webpagetest.org/</a> More comprehensive than YSlow.

Really some of these are things you do BEFORE you launch a web site. Do you really test the performance after its live? Really?

I'm surprised that "Have a business model" isn't there somewhere.

Flagged, title is garbage and doesn't adhere to HN guidelines as stated elsewhere.<p>Keep this out of HN and leave it for your blogroll crap, and don't pretend you didn't know any better either.

Sweet post... this should be a great blog to follow. Thanks for doing Rand!

Great checklist of things to remember!