Home Based Business|Build Your Own Web Site

Build Your Own Website as Part of Your Home Based Business and Host It For Less Than $220

It has never been so easy and affordable to build your own website with a professional and dependable outcome

There are many programs and software that allow you to build your own website. Your home based business wants a professional looking website, without you having to have HTML or graphic design knowledge. There are some professional website creation systems available for free. The most common being the blog programs e.g. Wordpress and Blogger. You need a powerful and cost-effective solution when you want to build your own website which is professional-looking and does not require you to have to code HTML.

Getting found by search engines
When you build your own website, you need to make sure that it is found by the search engines. Getting listed on search engines may not be automatic when your site goes live. There are a number of ways your home based business website can get listed on search engines and directories.

1. Submit your site to each individual search engine and/or directory. To do this, go to each one and look for a link to submit your site.

2. Hire a company that won't charge 'an arm and a leg' to submit your site for you. Companies that provide this service can often get your site listed higher up on the search engines. They also often have the option of signing you up to just a few search engine or hundreds or thousands of search engines and/or directories.

3. Choose a program that has automatic SEO capabilities built into it, including listings with search engines.

Domain Names
Be aware when you build your own website that some free website programs do not insist that you have your own domain name. However, it is recommended that you do register a domain name to give your home based business website a more professional look.

Your website and your email address should have the same web address i.e. your domain name. This is all part of the branding and image building for your business.

You can also register multiple domain names for the one website. When you build your own website you can add as many domain names as you want, and have them all pointing to your website. It is quite widespread for businesses to register the most common domain types for their website e.g. .com, .net, .org etc. in order to protect their brand and increase the access to the website.

When you build your own website, think carefully about what domain name you will choose. Most business operators choose their business name, when in fact a domain name that tells you what the business does and is also the main keyword, will get a lot more traffic and be listed higher with the search engines. For example, the business name of ‘Cooper the Super Dog.com’ is not as likely to get as much traffic as ‘dog training and tricks.com’

Hosting Solutions
Build Your Own Web Site

When you build your own website it is crucial to have a dependable host. It does not matter how fantastic your site is, if the web server host goes down, people will not see your site. It is the really cheap hosts that tend to go down (go off the air).

When using free web hosting, once your web page starts showing up in the search engines and getting more traffic you will exceed the free bandwidth allowed. When this happens the free web hosting server will remove your website; they do not care how much time you have spent to build your own website or how much effort you have put into promoting it.

Another negative aspect of using free web hosting is that they usually have advertising banners and pop-up ads inserted into your website. This will cause your website to load slower. Visitors on your site may end up clicking the free hosting server’s ads instead of yours, which will cause you to lose sales.

Also, you cannot have your own domain name when you use free web hosting and many of the free servers do not allow you to insert affiliate links. These are strong reasons not to use a free web hosting server for your home based business.