Build Your Own Site...

You can build your own site and save a lot of money instead of paying someone else to do it. Of course you will need to consider your learning curve, but if you can follow directions, then you can build your own website.

Building a website, or online business, can be a daunting task and even overwhelming to the beginner because there are so many choices to make.

The internet is glutted with millions of "pretty" and flashy websites that are practically invisible to people searching for products and services because the search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) don't index or see these sites.

The webmasters that built these "invisible websites" don't understand or care about the basics of search engine optimization (SEO) which includes thorough keyword research and serving good content to the search engines.

Sadly, many of these individuals and companies spent thousands and thousands of dollars on these useless websites.

And if you are building your own website, you don't want to spend money and time building a site that doesn't bring you the kind of traffic that is interested in what you are selling, right?

Of course not. Instead, you want an attractive and easy to navigate website that draws lots of traffic, because traffic means sales, and sales means money in your pocket.

We remember how overwhelming it was to build our own first site - so here are some excellent state-of-the-art resources and SUPER EASY TO USE tools that we consider to be absolutely essential. In fact, we use all of these on a daily basis...

Free Keyword Research Tool: People type into search engines like Google to find things. You must find out what the words are that will bring people to your website. For example, if you are selling XYZ Widgets, then you will need to research and find out what all the different and appropriate variations of the keyword "XYZ Widgets" are...and then build pages for your site that use those keywords. You can pay to advertise your site, but that still requires keyword research, but you should know that free search engine traffic (also known as natural or organic search engine traffic) is the best and highest quality traffic you can get. I could show you an expensive $200.00 keyword research tool, but this free keyword research tool is better.  :-)

Register a Domain Name: A domain name is the name of your website, like: www.MyWebSite.com. You will need to register your domain name with what is known as a domain registrar. For the sake of SEO (search engine optimization), some search engines might rank your site a little better if you include keywords in your domain name that are appropriate to the theme of your web site.

Web Hosting: All websites require a web host. A web host is an online source that stores all the pages of your website so they can be seen on the internet. You want your web host to offer all the features you will ever need, and your webhost must have excellent 24 hours a day - 7 days a week - 365 days a year FREE customer and technical support.

Website Building Software: Some website building software programs (or HTML Editors like Dreamweaver), are difficult to use and take forever to learn. You want a website building program that is super easy to use, and extremely powerful with every possible feature that you will ever need.

Website Building Course: There are website instructional courses that are boring and tedious because they are based on using learning how to use complicated and often out-dated programs. You will want to learn from a web site building program that is fun and will have you building beautiful and functional websites within an hour or two.

Header Creation Tool: The image you see at the very top of this website where it says "SpeedWebsiteDesign" is known as a "header." Every website has a header image. Graphic designers typically charge from $100.00 to $500.00 or more for a header image. We use and recommend a super easy to use header tool that will have you building your own beautiful website header within 10 minutes.

Email Autoresponder: Most people searching for products and services online will come to your site and either buy what you are offering, or they will leave and never come back. You want to make your site more "sticky" by devising a simple way to keep them coming back...for two reasons. One reason is to obviously buy what you are offering now -- and the other reason is to hopefully buy what you sell in the future. One of the best ways to keep them coming back to your site is to offer a free online newsletter that is automatically sent to them via email. And that is why you will need an email autoresponder account.

And of course we at SpeedWebsiteDesign.com would be happy to build a website for you.