{"id":409,"date":"2011-07-05T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/?p=409"},"modified":"2012-10-28T06:07:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T06:07:37","slug":"i-need-a-website-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/i-need-a-website-2\/affordablewebsitestips\/tutorials","title":{"rendered":"I need a website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"I need a website.\" Are you sure that all you need is a website? For a website to be successful online, whether it's for business or personal, you will need more than just a website. You will need, a logo for branding, an email list to keep track of your visitors, a professional look so that visitors realize you're credible and proper SEO. These are just the fundamentals you need for a website to be prosperous. You can't start branding and collecting emails after a website is successful; you need these essentials at the start.<\/p>\n<p>You will also need to blog 1-5 times a day as well as monitor your website traffic and popular blog topics using <a href=\"http:\/\/analytics.google.com\">Google Analytics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article was written to help people, that need a website, learn how to go about creating a successful website.<\/p>\n<h3>Free Website:<\/h3>\n<p>It's really easy to create a website for free, just go to Weebly.com, yola.com or sites.google.com.<br \/>\nIf you want to create a website that generates web traffic and new visitors, there's actually more to<br \/>\nit.<\/p>\n<h3>Search Engine Friendly:<\/h3>\n<p>To generate traffic for your website you'll need to make your website 'search engine friendly'. Free<br \/>\nwebsites are really subdomain websites. Subdomain websites don't offer the proper domain name or<br \/>\nunique IP address required for optimal search engine recognition.<br \/>\nA 'search engine friendly' website requires a web hosting account and a domain name.<br \/>\nThe average web hosting costs about $4-$8\/month. The average domain name runs $9-$25\/year.<\/p>\n<h3>Search Engine Optimization (SEO):<\/h3>\n<p>If you have a website that sells cars, and your website uses an image gallery and a phone number,<br \/>\nyou'll never get traffic. People use search engines to find websites and search engines define websites<br \/>\nbased on their text content. To make your website search engine optimized, makes sure you<br \/>\ndescribe your products in detail using text. Search engines recognize text<br \/>\ncontent, text formatting, the position of the text of the page and more. Search engines can also<br \/>\ndown-rank a website for having broken links, and other signs or poor coding. It's best to have a<br \/>\nprofessional make sure your website is optimized correctly.<\/p>\n<h3>Backlinks or Inbound links:<\/h3>\n<p>Search engines rank your website higher depending on how many backlinks your website has<br \/>\nor how popular the websites are that link to your website. People are not stupid and many savy website<br \/>\nowners make their own backlinks from free websites and online profiles they create. There's a constant<br \/>\nbattle between search engines and savy website owners trying to fool the search engines. Right now,<br \/>\nsearch engines are losing the battle. Many websites are generating their backlinks and it's an<br \/>\nunfortunate necessity to stay competitive in the online world.Backlink services sometimes called (Website SEO services or Page Ranking services) cost<br \/>\n$19-$3000\/month.<\/p>\n<h3>Email List or Newsletters:<\/h3>\n<p>I'm sure you've heard of newsletters, email lists or email blasts. When you have a product peole want,<br \/>\na newsletter is a helpful way to let them know when you're having a sale, new products or new rates.<br \/>\nInterested customers don't have time to check a website every day to see what's new, and this is a<br \/>\nhandy solution for them. People sign up for newsletters from a form on your website, or you can sign<br \/>\nthem up yourself using an admin.Email List programs cost about $7-19\/month.<\/p>\n<h3>Complete website packages<\/h3>\n<p>A shotty website won't survive very long and is a waste of time and money for both website owner and<br \/>\nhosting provider.<\/p>\n<p>2slick.com offers a complete website package and an SEO package to cover all important aspects of a<br \/>\ncompetitive website.<\/p>\n<h4>Affordable Website Plan - $16\/month\u00a0<a title=\"Affordable Website Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/build-a-website\" target=\"_blank\">read more...<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>SEO Plan - $33.50\/month\u00a0<a title=\"Website SEO\" href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/get-your-website-notices\" target=\"_blank\">read more...<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ONPxm7xEOl0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"349\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ONPxm7xEOl0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I need a website.&#8221; Are you sure that all you need is a website? 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