| u’re an individual or a small business owner | | | | others didn’t. |
| seeking to impart information, or seeking to earn | | | | Yes all that is nice but what I look for first and |
| affiliate income, or seeking to promote a product or | | | | foremost is; is it SEO friendly? If that is there, the |
| service, or otherwise seeking to put a simple website | | | | next thing I look for is; is it easy to use? If those |
| on the Internet these days, you probably are in a | | | | two features are there I’m happy as |
| dilemma to locate effective website design help. | | | | anything else I need I can always get from a third |
| The traditional way to get a website designed just | | | | party website as an add-on service or feature; refer |
| doesn’t work for the small business owner or | | | | others, ezine / newsletter, forum, blog, directory, |
| WebPreneur anymore (I don’t know if it ever | | | | even web based email and domain registration. |
| did). No it has too many problems. I should know | | | | Sometimes I don’t even have to pay for |
| I’m a website designer by trade since 1996 | | | | them as some of the FREE add-on services do a |
| and I’ve seen and experienced all the pros | | | | good enough job. |
| and the cons out there: flashy website design but | | | | Anyway it’s all much better than using a |
| not ideal for SEO (so no SERP), websites with | | | | website designer, as you are in total control, and can |
| outdated content (so no repeat visitors), unfinished | | | | update the website fast and easy, when and as |
| websites (not enough information or content), not to | | | | needed, and when you’re done with your |
| mention bad website design, sloppy html coding, slow | | | | website if you’re not too confident in your |
| loading images, and I could go on and on. The | | | | website design skills there are websites that you can |
| bottom-line is most website designers are so eager | | | | join where members will offer constructive criticism |
| to show their talent, they usually go all out and | | | | of your website at no charge. |
| forget about SEO and SERP (which are the primary | | | | Never-the-less it’s more likely that one can |
| reasons to be online in the first place, to be seen). | | | | find a suitable solution to fit ones pocket. And with a |
| For years I searched for the ideal solution, one | | | | little searching it is indeed possible. |
| where anyone (even a child) could create a decent | | | | I am a website designer and I’ve begun using |
| looking, properly SEO’d website and have it | | | | such services for my own websites, all 27 of them, |
| be online in a matter of hours (not days, weeks or | | | | why? Because they are quick and easy to use, and |
| months), all at a reasonable affordable rate. | | | | they free up my time to do more important things |
| Well these days I’m finding that web based | | | | like, niche and keyword research, competition |
| Website Builders are the answer... but not all are | | | | research, link exchange, inbound link building, article |
| created equal. I found some ranging from $10 per | | | | writing, blogging and more. |
| month to $199 per month. Some included domain | | | | So if you do not need a fancy website design |
| names, web hosting and even web based emails, | | | | service with Flash, PHP, MySQL, etc., consider this |
| while others only included web hosting at no additional | | | | most cost effective option and keep some money in |
| charge, while others still, charged separately for each | | | | your pocket that you can use for SEO or other uses |
| additional service. Some were SEO friendly, others | | | | to do things you can’t do yourself like; logo |
| weren’t. Some included add-on features like | | | | creation, image optimization, and the like. |
| refer others, built-in newsletter, forums, etc., while | | | | |