Build your own web site, it is easy

[pietpetoors]

Doing online marketing without your own web site is a waste of time. If you do it without your own web site you are just building somebody else's brand for him.

Building your own web site is not as difficult as you think

I created a step by step video tutorial which show you exactly how to do this.

I take you from where you register your own domain to the point where you can receive payments, add a newsletter and be able to place banner ads on your web site.

It is so easy even a 50 year old can do it.

You can get it at http://www.createyourownwebsite.co.za

[rosanne]

Hi there Piet

So you did your website by yourself? Who does the hosting and how much monthly? All the tweaking and other garble? who does that?

[pietpetoors]

Web site

The hosting is done by gridhost, they charge R8.95 per month for hosting and R100 per year for domain registration and renewal. They then give you 50mb of space which is enough for entry level web site and 10 mail boxes.

The setup and tweaking are all done by yourself. The video shows exactly how to set it up, how to add plugins for good SEO, etc.

[mikefaraone]

Basically building a site is not that difficult for me, there are some finest tools availoable on net for that, what i am interested in a service that would not only let me design a suite but will also make it search engine friendly, as far as the backend coding is concerned. is there any tool or site available for this type of info?

[Chatmaster]

The best options you have in my opinion is to use CMS like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal with mod rewrite switched on together with hosting on a Linux box off course. I also recommend that you join Rand Fishkin's SEOMoz and perhaps even purchase SEOBook by Aaron Wall to get your SEO up to scratch. Just being search friendly is pointless if you do not apply SEO techniques as the author are in control of most of the on-page SEO as well as the Off-page factors.

[Chatmaster]

Just as a side note, building a website will not even remotely make you money online, nor would ranking well. You need to know how to squeeze and convert to make money online. Getting traffic is simply a start of any internet business.

[Emilganos]

what happen when you create your web page?

[tonyflanigan]

what happen when you create your web page?

The same as New Years resolutions. Nothing, unless you really put some effort into it.

If you don't mind, can we link to your site from our brand new blog, http://claybricktrust.co.za ?

Sorry about punting my site boss Dave..., if its a prob, I'll use a pm.

[pietpetoors]

web site

As Tony said, once the site is finished the hard work start. Not only do you have to promote it but you also have to get quality content on your site.
Content do not always have to be business orientated, it is better to write about a topic you have a passion for. Look at Butch's site http://www.storiesandissues.co.za/ . His making his money from writing short stories and poems. He is retired and this is what he love doing.

@Tony - Those google link units which you have on your site nether work for me. Their conversion rate is very poor. In the body of the site I suggest you rather use a normal ad unit and them link units is good to put at the end of a page so that it looks like more links on your site.

[SilverNodashi]

If I may ask, what is your target market with this?

[Emilganos]

Ohh yes

Before logging in my forum I have ready known that there are new things waiting for me. I really love this forum. It's teachful and free thought- share-field. I have many web masters books they are full of inpirations.
The Forum SA is another powerful tool.
My question is "what is the difference between hosting your web here in South Africa and outside of South Africa.
Thank you Dave.

[SilverNodashi]

Hosting in South Africa is much faster, since the servers are located in South Africa. But, bandwidth is normally more expensive. For some this could be a problem though, especially if your website moves 5GB, or even 10GB bandwidth per month. But, on the other hand if this traffic is all business related and brings in money, then the cost of the bandwidth is marginal.

It's like renting an office. Many people won't pay R10K pm for an office, but if that same office generates R50K / R100k per month (let's say you sell products in a mall, or you run a print company, etc) then the R10k or even R20k office rental is marginal. Same with local bandwidth. We host many websites on USA based server, and many website on ZA based servers - there's a demand for both.

[pietpetoors]

Web site

Over the years I developed various sites which targets various markets. Anything from property, photography, forex trading, shares and 4x4

My advice to people is not to target a certain niche just to make money. Especially on your first site start off with something you have a passion for and develop a site around that. All the sites I created I did because I had an interest in that subject at the time I created the site.

[tonyflanigan]

@Piet

Thanks for your comments re our google ads.

Our site(s) is/are in a constant state of change. Terry looks after the ads, and monitors their performance, altering the units and layout as she sees what does and what does not work in specific places.

[Peter Parker]

Do you write your web contents yourself? If yes how.