How To Build A Website For Your Online Business

Introduction


Most everyone will agree, if you are going to do business online, you need your web site. It can be a mini-site or a full-blown multi-page site. These days, maybe you just need a blog as a web site. Find out what you need to know to build your web site, get web hosting for that site and start your online business right.

If you are serious about sustaining a long term home-based internet business, you should have a web site of your own. Having your web site will give you much more flexibility on how you approach your online business as well as provide you with a means to give your web business a presence on the internet. Having this presence and making yourself known on the internet will improve the level of trust you will receive by your potential customers.
Benefits Of Having a Website


Having your site may open up many possibilities that you could never have imagined. For the many who embark upon their web site adventure, it becomes a learning experience with no equal.

Your web site will take on a personality of its own and be the front door to your online home business. You may see it as a very patient friend, waiting calmly for you to discover some little hidden function, which opens up a whole range of entirely new possibilities and starts your thoughts racing – thinking about how to capitalize on that particular feature.

You may get a little careless, or get too relaxed with it, then bam! Right between the eyes – you end up with a big problem. But, building your web site for your online business is fun, can be profitable, and most certainly can feed that creative flair in all of us.

There is no better way to profit from the web than by having a successful, profit-generating web site. If you are new to website designing and Internet marketing, have no fear, there is plenty of information on the web to help you get started. Creating a website can be done in three easy steps:

Decide on, and purchase a domain name: Domain names can be easily purchased at GoDaddy.com or many other places like it on the web. Domain registration usually costs between 7 to 10 dollars a year. It is very reasonable. When you are choosing your domain name, don’t make it funny or cute, unless you can do so while still placing a proper keyword in it. It’s best to have highly searched for keywords in the name
For example, if you sell golf supplies your domain should be something like “golf-supplies-wharehouse.com”, not “the-putter-fudder.com”. You want the keyword “golf supplies” in your domain name. You can also use Wordtracker’s FREE trial to give you keyword ideas: https://www.wordtracker.com?fpr=signup.



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Website Hosting: The second step in creating a website is finding and purchasing a web hosting account. A few quality hosts are bluehost.com, godaddy.com, and a host of others. A website host is a company that rents its servers where your website files will be stored. They cost about 5 to 10 dollars a month unless you chose to go with a free hosting service.

Website Design: The third step in creating a website is to design your site. In this technologically advanced age, it is easy to find drag-and-drop web editors that allow anyone to make a good looking, easy to use the website in a matter of days. Your hosting service will inevitably have design software that they provide. There is usually no need, unless you have an extremely large business, to hire a designer. The website editors that are provided by hosting companies are usually easy to use, and extremely functional. If you sell products, they have simple shopping carts that you can install. You can also easily implement Google AdSense, and affiliate programs on your site. As long as your site is simple to use, and has valuable content (pictures and information), you will be fine.

When you have completed the three steps above, you will have an effective website. When you are finished, you will have to publish it (with help from your hosting provider) and test it out. After that, you will be able to register your site with the major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.). After that, just market your business, and watch it grow.

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Tools
1. Webhosting and domain - Bluehost
2. Keyword researcher - Wordtracker

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