Question:
I want to build a web page for my store cheap or free where should i go?
k h
2007-04-06 04:04:33 UTC
I want to build a web page for my store cheap or free where should i go?
Nine answers:
Ex Head
2007-04-06 04:12:10 UTC
http://www.moonfruit.com has everything you need to do this FREE, BUT if you want it for a Business they have a Paid Version also THAT is real Cheap. Use the FREE Version to build the Site THEN go to the Paid Version and all the work will bo done. You have 15 pages FREE to work with.
anonymous
2007-04-06 04:10:02 UTC
You just need you're hosting and you're domain name, It'll cost you maybe $35. Then make the site yourself and upload it, im sure a well known search engine will provide you with a decent hosting company (*ahem* go daddy go*).



*edit* As for other suggestions, you need to take into consideration customisability, SEO (search engine optimisation) optimisation and the ability to move beyond simply pre made pages (which are far from unique).



Also in some countries sites are required to comply with accessibility functions, for the visually impaired and disabled.



Best thing you can do is make it yourself, get the meta tags and keywords right (the things search engines use to pick up on and rank you're site).
anonymous
2007-04-06 11:34:59 UTC
Here.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/FX101534261033.aspx
Seraphina T.
2007-04-06 05:21:00 UTC
I am sure you'll want a shopping cart type of feature for your website. I don't think you can get it free but there are cheap hosting sites which offer such features from monthly rates as low as $4.95. I know Startlogic has.
Geeeyaaa
2007-04-06 04:08:33 UTC
Mysite.com provides a free site.



I'm not sure if it's good for using it as a store website.
anonymous
2007-04-06 07:02:14 UTC
Optimize your site visit http://soulofusa.com



Domain FAQ for reading.

http://soulofusa.com/_wsn/page3.html......

Its daily updated.
anonymous
2007-04-06 04:14:15 UTC
use Yahoo, they are a little more pricier but you know they will be around
katz
2007-04-06 14:17:24 UTC
I think you would like... BuyitSellit.com.... Check it out
wabboc
2007-04-07 10:48:16 UTC
Hi,



Simple Money Machines is a scam. Does it offer a money back guarantee. No. Does it do search engine marketing. No.



I got the material and wanted my money back. They said I waited too long - that my 14 day trail period was up and they were keeping my money even though I never used their product. I made a mistake of a couple of days.



I asked if they were charging me over $400 for a mistake and they said yes. I had to have my bank cancel the credit card charge.



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There are so many Web hosting companies chasing your business... from the "local expert" to the largest multi-national companies. There is a lot of noise out there, all promising the instant gratification of "getting your site up."



Choosing the future home of your business is not an easy decision.



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Imagine if...

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Now imagine doing it...

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Do you think the president of the company would put his ugly mug out on the Web, if what he had to offer was a hoax or a scam. How many scammers are still around? They eventually die on the vine and melt away faster than a snowflake in Florida.



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Let's assume that you have just decided to place your business at a standard, old-fashioned Web host (ex., Yahoo!, 1&1, verio, etc.). Let's follow your progress. These are typical of the thousands of choices out there on the Internet. It would be impossible to compare them all, but these represent some of the more honest ones.



First, why would you make this decision? It won't be due to overwhelming proof of success like you can find about this Web site builder.



Nope. Not by a long shot.



There is none. Nor will you find a Friendly Family Bulletin Board like the one this product offers offers -- those other companies only take pride in financial statements (theirs). No, more than likely, you accepted the lure of cheap (even free!), quick, easy "business hosting."



Soon, though, you realize you are spinning your wheels. You need to upgrade to their "Professional Platinum Package" ($49.95/month). You buy two key add-on modules (yes, to the Platinum, and each @ $19.95/month). And you have to hire a Webmaster to help you coordinate all this, as well as customize one of the programs that "came free" with your hosting ($1500).



In a few months, you're spending an hour or two per day researching the Web to "keep up" and trying to figure out how to build traffic. You're reading several Net marketing e-zines, worrying about technical and Search Engine issues (two of the Search Engine zines each cost another $97/year). And you're buying more and more expensive third-party software, on the excited say-so of this expert or that.



So How Are You Doing After All This?



Not as good as you had hoped. There are 65 million active Web sites. Where are you after completing all the work above?



Your site is way down in the 65 million, buried under millions of other Web sites near the bottom and crushed.



What a waste of time - your most precious commodity - never mind the money. You can always get that back, .but tempus fugit or was that Tempus Fuque-it



This products Web sites are largely in the Top 3% of the 65 million active Web sites.



Holy Smoke! Some are in the top 1% of all active Web sites. One percent of 65 million is 650,000 and many of these Web sites sites rank lower than that. Some are less than 100,000 and a few are even less than 50,000.



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I kid you not!



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Other site owners waste so much time and money chasing the holy grail of traffic. Despite paying all those dollars for Platinum, Programmers and Powerful Packages, all the latest Band-Aids fail.



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If you love details and are more technically minded, let's do a detailed comparison of our product against the high end "Professional Package" of typical, major old-fashioned Web hosting services. Why high end? Because there is simply no comparison at all when you compare our product against the cheap or free promotions -- those are mere lures. Avoid them.







When you compare apples to apples, there is no comparison. Those 's and 's are the difference between success and failure.



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Our product costs less than $1 per day.



Listen! I will tell you what is involved in creating your own Web site.



Don't fall prey to those "Free" Web site builders that only give you a few pages. However, NVU, is a free Web site builder that allows you to build Web sites right, for free and as many pages as your want, thousands even.. It does not, however, do any search engine marketing. More on that later.



Just creating a Web site will not attact targeted traffic. What is traffic?



Glad you asked because it's the heart and soul of a Web site's success.



Listen! Targeted traffic is the name of the game. Without traffic your Web site will be invisible to the search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask). There are others, but they a insignificant compared to the majors.



Targeted traffic is visitors coming to your Web site for information. They are not looking for your Web site. Nope. They are looking for relevant information. If your Web site is just a few pages, the search engines will never find you.



Most new people to Web site building will fall prey to the many so-called "free" web sites and waste a lot of time on them and achieve little in the way of targeted traffic. The theme of your Web site should be something you are very interested in. It just doesn't make sense to create a Web site and then have it ignored by the search engines (SEs). The major SEs are Google, Yahoo!, MSC, and Ask. If they don't know you are there, your Web site, for all practical purpose, is invisible. SEs find you when you have lots of content - many pages of information, relevant to the theme of your Web site.



You see, there are thousands of web sites that purport to create a free Web site. What they don't tell you is how to attract targeted traffic via the search engines (Yahoo,Google,Msn, Ask). Web site creation is all you get. Amazon has a program to tell you how popular your Web site is here: Alexa. The program is called Alexa and it will compare a Web site to 65 million active Web sites and give you a rank as to how you stand in that 65 million Web site universe. 500,000 is good, but anything under 100,000 is terriffic. Google is under 10 the last time I looked. If your Web site is not recognized by the SEs, then your Alexa rank will be "no data". A no date rank means the Web site is invisible to the SEs. Invisible means no visitors, no visitors means no targeted traffic, no traffic = no money. Creating your Web site was a waste of time.



And you might be able to create 5 or 10 pages at most, even less, before they begin to nickel and dime you to death with add-ons that cost money and before you know it the "free" web site costs over $300 and more, assuming you don't drop out by this time because the Web site just doesn't work and you may have wasted a year on this fruitless effort.



Many people new to Web site creation believe that you just create a Web site and they will come. Like the baseball movie, Field of Dreams (1989), where Kevin Costner creates a baseball field in the middle of nowhere and soon thousands are flocking to the field.



This only happens in the movies, not in real life.



You must attract the search engines(SEs). The most cost effective way to do that is by creating lots of Web pages with quality, relevant content (information) that matches user's needs and requirements for information..



Potential visitors do not look for a web site per se. They do not enter your Web Address. They are looking for information. They do not enter your Web site URL into an SE. They enter keywords or phrases into the SE and the SE responds with millions of Web sites in many cases and then the surfer may make his keyword more relevant and try again. Most surfers only look at the first few pages even though there may be millions of hits on a particular keyword.



So the first thing you must do is to brainstorm you keywords - which keywords are relevant to the theme of your Web site.



But this is not enough. Remember the concept of supply and demand?



Let me explain. If there is a low supply of something, say a commodity like coffee, that means that there is not much available. What happens if many people all want a lot of coffee. That creates a big demand for coffee, but when they go to buy coffee the price has gone up. It went up because the demand exceeded the supply. This causes the coffee growers to grow more coffee. They grow too much and there is a big supply, so the price drops because the demand has dropped owing to the increase in the supplies of coffee.



The same concept can be applied to keywords or phrases. Really scarce keywords with hardly any supply related to your Web site theme.



How do you find those keywords that have a huge demand and very little supply?



Aye, that's the rub.



One of the ways to do this without spending any money is to use Google's AdWord tool: (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal).



This tool is actually intended to help advertisers decide which keywords to buy. It provides Demand (they call it "Search Volume") and "Advertiser Competition" (another kind of Demand for your keywords!). This tool even provides the "monetary value" (optional) of your keywords (i.e., what advertisers can expect to pay).



So what do you (a publisher (a Web site builder), not an advertiser) look for? Remember this for now...



* the more relevant keywords that are generated by this tool,



* the greater the Demand ("Search Volume") for the keywords,



* the greater the "Advertiser Competition", and



* the more the keywords cost advertisers...



... the better for you!



Just go through the tutorials that Google has to offer.



The other tool for keywords is Worktracker - it is not free, but is the best on the Web for analyzing keyword demand and supply: (http://www.wordtracker.com/index.html). Try their free trial. I entered "free keyword analysis" into Google and got 11 million hits so you know it's a hot topic.



Get this!



Our product has a tool, Brainstormer, that does all this keyword analysis for you. It's part of the complete integrated package provided by our product. Wordtracker is included in our product at no cost. It's $250 a year if you buy it from Wordtracker after the 14 day trial period.



My oh My!



Once you know what your keywords are, they form the basis of creating Web pages for your Web site. You sprinkle relevant keywords throughout your Web page. These will attract the SEs and if you have enough pages, you will rise up through the ranks and hopefully achieve a listing on the first page of the SEs.



The SEs use software called "spiders". The spiders job is to crawl the entire universe of Web sites and index them by keyword. The database index is why they can return an answer so fast because there are now a billion Web sites or so and still growing fast.



You keep adding pages to your Web site - the more pages the better. That's why the phrase, "Content is King!" came about. The SEs love lots of high quality content.



That's also why most 5 - 10 page Web sites attract no targeted traffic. The SEs just ignore them.



No content, no crawlers for you...bad dog.



However, all is not lost because once you get to about 30 pages, the SEs begin to take notice. When you reach 50 pages, you may see a page ranked number one in an SE, but don't stop there. Keep adding pages - just one a day would mount up to 365 in one year.



Now, where do you find software that can build your Web site. Here is one that is free and it's a lot like Microsoft's Front Page. These are sometimes called WYSIWYG editors, pronounced "wizeewhig" and means "What You See Is What You Get". Another more expensive editor is Macromedia's Dreamweaver, but this costs several hundred dollars. These are designed for the Geeks of the world.



Our product is designed for non-technical users. It uses a block building technique that make it easy as 1-2-3, as easy as pie. However, many techy geek types use the PRODUCT block building method because it is very fast.



The Web site for the free WYSIWYG is: (http://www.nvu.com/index.php). NVU; pronounced "New View". There are free tutorial there. More tutorials can be found by entering "free nvu tutorials" in Google.



You may want to try GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program). This is a free graphics editor that rivals best of breed Adobe Photoshop. There are free tutorials for GIMP, too here: (http://www.designyourownweb.com/gimp-tutorial.htm).



It's a good idea to have some pictures and graphics on your Web pages to tantalize your visitors. . Not too many, though, because the search engines only recognize text. The ignore the pictures and graphics.



Once you have your Web site constructed on your PC or Mac, then you need to get a domain name and a server host.. This will cost money, $10 to $300 per year depending on options. About the cheapest with the most options is GoDaddy. Go here: (http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp).



Of course, domain name and hosting is included in the our product price along with easy-to-use programs that upload your pages to the server host. And that is done automatically.



There are free hosting sites, but you have to put up with their advertising all over your pages. There is really no "free lunch"; there's always a catch. Our product includes hosting and your Web site will cost about a dollar a day.



Once you have your domain name and host, you upload your Web site to your hosting supplier or server and you are published on the web. As you create more pages, you continue to upload those pages to your host server.



This is done automatically by our product.



Whoopee!



That's what it takes to get published, but we are not done yet. We now have to get recognized by the SEs. If you have enough high quality content and are patient, eventually the SEs will discover you. Impatient people use something called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Internet Marketing. Here is a new book that does just that: "Search Engine Optimization - An Hour A Day" by Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin.



Then, there is Brad Tabke's "26 steps to 15K a day". It boils down to solid content thoughtfully put together can make more impact than a decade's worth of tweaks that may or may not work such as fiddling with META tags. Find his 26 steps here: (http://www.frihost.com/forums/vt-2797.html).



This is the exact same plan used by Our product. See Ken's blog:. I'm not saying Brad stole it from Ken Evoy, but Ken developed what is known as the C + T + P + M formula.



This is how the formula works:

Create in-demand content (information) - C

Attract Targeted Traffic (visitors) - T

Presell Those Visitors - P

Monitize Presold Traffic - M



Content

Web users search for information, for solutions. They are not looking for you - they don't even know you (yet!). They seek what you know. Give it to them. Convert your knowledge into in-demand Content. To succeed online, start where they start - at "the search."



Traffic

Your topical content ranks high at the Search Engines (ex., Google, Yahoo!, MSN), attracting free, targeted (i.e., interested), open-to-you visitors. Basically, these future customers "meet you" at your site. These visitors are known as "Traffic.".



PREsell

Complete strangers develop trust and confidence in you. Why? You "PREsell" by OVERdelivering what they seek... relevant, original, information.



Deliver it in your own voice, in your own way. Go beyond merely instilling confidence... your visitors will like you.



Monetize

Convert warm, willing-to-buy ("PREsold") visitors into income. Called "Monetizing," this is the easy part. But "M" cannot happen if you fail to first execute C T P. This is where 99% of small businesses fail.



Brad also created and runs one of the best forums for Web site building information at: (http://www.webmasterworld.com/).



My Web sites were created with a simple system. It does all of the above utilizing 50 programs. No geeky knowledge required. Hardly any PC knowledge is necessary and it creates pages fast and uploads them to the host server automatically.



You may want to check it out, before going it alone. A super-friendly forum is offered that gives budding Web site builders lots of help... from a panoply of experts who have been there and done it all...



Oh! I almost forgot. It has a special program that will allow you to exchange links with other Web sites. The search engines love links, the more the better and this is done automatically.



And blogs, don't forget them. Blogs are created for you every time you create a Web page and this blog will get posted on the Internet for all to see - automatically.



Kindest Personal Regards,



Walt Brown

Certified Webmaster

capecod1@capecod-beaches.com

wab@theworld.com

http://www.capecod-beaches.com/



P.S. I would be remiss if I didn't mention some of the FREE e-books that our product offers. No other company comes even close to offering this information and it's all FREE with no obligation to buy anything, no salesman will knock on your door, no slick talking, glib promoter will call saying he has a bridge in Brooklyn for sale cheap:



P.P.S. Don't forget to check out (http://www.webmasterworld.com/) for lots of free and useful Web building information.


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