No matter what your selling, whether it's jewelry or purses, handmade items, or re-sale items, creating an informational website about you, your business, or any topic you're interested in, you will want to build a website. Here are some steps to get you started on a website:
1. Choose your domain name, using a .com, .net, .co or .org (GoDaddy.com is a good place to check which names are available)
2. Pick a domain buying and web hosting company. You should pick a company that has good customer support. www.godaddy.com is a popular one but also there are other cheaper options like www.budgethostingweb.com which is great if you need hosting for your site also.
3. Build your site using a website builder, blog editor, graphic designer or software like Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage. www.GoDaddy.com and www.Intuit.com have site building software as well as www.wix.com is great for making easy fun flash websites.
4. Make your website stand out from the crowd – find a graphic designer to customize images on your site or design a custom logo for you. (Here's a suggestion: www.liquidreddesign.com)
5. Add lots of interesting and relevant content to your site to make it interesting and keep your audience's attention.
6. Get traffic to your site by submitting your website to search engines like Google and by using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. You can also find web marketers to help with this. They'll usually even contact you once your site gets a little traffic.
7. Promote your website using social networks like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and Pinterest.
8. Market your site using a newsletter (www.verticalresponse.com & www.constantcontact.com and good for helping you set up email blasts)
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