How To Build A Business Website For Profit

Every online entrepreneur should build a business website eventually.   It’s a great way to put all your products and ideas out there, for the whole internet to see.  You can get free traffic from search engines or viral marketing, and make tons of money in the process.   

If you have a successful Ebay store and you sell all your merchandise there, you will be paying Ebay tons of money in fees and missing out on all the customers who don’t shop on Ebay.  If you only market your Cafepress store, you’ll miss out on customers that don’t shop at Cafepress, and miss out on the marketing power of your own website, which you could direct to your Cafepress store.

Learning how to build a businees website is one of the wisest choices you’ll make online.  However,  you can’t just throw together a website and expect it to start pulling in money for you.   You need traffic… targeted traffic.

In my opinion, the very best way to bring traffic to your website is through the search engines.   It’s free traffic and it’s highly targeted.   You won’t have to worry about advertising expenses or costly listing fees.  This takes some time to start being profitable, but keep in mind that there are some other methods we can use to give your traffic a quick boost.

Although there are other choices, the best way for beginners is Site_Build_It by SiteSell.   This is an outstanding web host and internet marketing company that truly cares about your success.   This package has free tracking, free domain, free brainstorming and keyword software, free newsletter capabilities, free marketing lessons, and much more!  Click_here to see how they compare to other web hosts.

Sitesell is great for beginners, but more experienced website owners find that it's not as flexible as they would like it to be.

If you would rather not buy the package from Sitesell, there are cheaper web hosts out there.   I personally haven’t used many so I’ll just tell you about the ones I have had experience with. 

• A Small Orange - Decent prices, reliable, super quick customer service, very little downtime so far 
• Dreamhost  - Great prices, no cpanel so it might look a bit confusing to some people, they don't have Fantastico which is a disappointment to me.  Also not compatible with JVManager. 
• Yahoo  - More expensive pricing, very reliable, customer service a little slow 
• Sitesell  - More expensive pricing, lots of help with your website and marketing, many other tools provided with hosting, should be used only by beginners 

You will also need a domain name.  GoDaddy is the most widely used company and they have pretty good pricing.  However, many internet marketers prefer Namecheap as it's safer for their business and costs less in the long run.  You may be thinking "but if I sign up with a web host they’ll usually give a free domain registration."   The free domain registration with hosting is not worth signing up for.  Setting up an account with Namecheap will help you to better organize your domains and it's better protection for your business.

You can use any practically any website builder you want with these hosts.   Yahoo comes with a very easy to use Site builder.   I have just made the switch from Microsoft Front Page to XSitePro and I love it!  If you're interested in getting XSitePro (which makes SEO, building and organization much easier for you) then buy it from James' Shramko's site.  You'll get some invaluble bonuses to dramatically cut your learning curve.

Some cheaper options are:

• Google has a free webpage creator 
• Ewisoft - works like Frontpage.   Great software.  
• Sitespinner has an EXCELLENT rating with download.com.   

These are the very basics of what you'll be needing to build a business website for yourself.  With a little planning and effort your website could turn into a very profitable asset for you.

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