WEB SITES, DOMAIN NAMES AND WEB HOSTING

Depending on your available funds and degree of professionalism required, you can either start with a free web site or purchase your own domain and get a company to host it for you. Visit this section for advice and a selection of recommended products and services

Check out our web hosting page for details of free and low cost web hosting packages

ADDING CONTENT

To get people to visit your site regularly, you'll need to offer them something worth return to. Check out this section for freebies you can use to provide content, or to offer to your visitors.

MAKING MONEY

Earn from your site by linking to other sites. Visit our affiliates page for details of sites that will pay you to link to them

ONLINE ADVERTISING

Take a look at the options for free and low cost advertising online

FREE TRAFFIC GENERATION

Take a look at the free options for guaranteeing visitors to your site. Particularly suitable if you are trying to promote an internet based business opportunity.

 SEARCH ENGINES

If you want people to be able to find your site, you must be listed with the top search engines. You can either go to each search engine individually or you can use special software or get it done for you. Visit this section for details of the most important search engines and recommended software and services, together with information on optimising your position with the search engines.

OTHER WAYS TO GET YOUR SITE KNOWN

Although search engines and ads are a crucial part in the successful visibility of your site, they are by no means the only options. Visit this section for details on swapping links, awards, and more.

AFFILIATE PROGRAMS AND E-COMMERCE

If you have something to sell on the Internet, there are two major ways of increasing your sales for little effort:

Visit this page for details of some of the best options around.

MONITORING ACTIVITY

There's little point having a website and spending hours promoting it if you don't know whether anyone is visiting your site and where they're coming from. If your own webhost doesn't supply you with this information, there are many companies that supply this information for free, or low cost. A few of the best are listed here.

RECOMMENDED READING

Here you'll find details of the best guides to creating, and improving a professional website, written for even complete novices to follow, including free downloads.

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