Make Your Own Website

It is highly recommended that you make your own website, even though it's possible to do some internet business without. It is very limited what you can do online without a website of your own.

Learn about how you can do online business with blogging.

If you make your own website you can use it to do business and make money in many ways, like having an online store, sell digital downloadable stuff, let other people advertise on your site, do affiliate marketing (promoting other people's services or products), and much more.

You will have more freedom and can do more things with an "ordinary" website than a blog. So it depends what your needs are. For example, if you'd like to have an online store and sell goods, you can't use a blog.

The tools and services you need to build a website are:

• Web site builder 

• Domain name 

• Web hosting service

• FTP (publishing) software

In order to create a website you need a web site builder (if you don't want to hand code your html).There are lots of software that can do the job, also free software. An OK free application is Trellian WebPage (click on the Products tab on their site), another is KompoZer.
 

However, if you are serious about your internet business you should go for professional software if you can afford it. The 'best' one for creating an online business site is no doubt XSitePro - this very website is created with XSitePro.  It costs (at the time of writing) $197 USD. Another good (and affordable) site builder is CoffeCup ($49).

Further, you need a domain name, which should reflect your business name if possible. It must be a unique name, different from all other domain names on the internet. Domain names cost from about $2 USD to about $20 per year depending on the provider and which suffix you choose (.com, .net, .org .us, .eu etc.).

You can check and buy domain names at Namecheap.com or GoDaddy.com. Both are reliable and good services.

When your new website is ready to be published to the Internet, you will need web hosting - storage space - on a web server. Recommended hosting companies are BlueHost and HostGator.

Then you have to upload (publish) your site to the web server. Most decent website builders have publishing features, however in some cases you may need a third party publishing tool - an FTP client (software). A good free one that I use myself is Filezilla.

That's just about what you have to do to make your own website. Click on the links below and visit the pages for further and more in-depth information on the different aspects of building a website.

Planning a Website

It's important to plan a website before actually building it. A well designed website plan can save you a lot of time, work and frustration.

Finding the Right Keywords
In order to attract visitors to your website, finding the right keywords is very important. You need the best keywords on your web pages to get website traffic.

Keyword Optimization

The keyword optimization of your pages is extremely important to get organic traffic from the search engines. The specific keyword must be in all the rigt places of a page.

Finding Good Keywords

The most important thing to do with your website, is finding good keywords. Having the 'best' keywords on your web pages is crucial for its ability to attract visitors. 

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