I know, I know, you have been putting this off and putting this off. Either you just think it is going to be too time consuming, or you feel you don't know everything you need to know. Well, if you wait till you know everything you will lose valuable time building your content and getting search engines to start recognizing you. You need to get your website up now, and then continue working on it till it is the masterpiece you want.

You need to choose someone to host your site. All hosts are not created equal. You can get alot for you money if you are careful. Spending about $75.00 a year for a host is all you need to do. With this price you can have unlimited websites. I reccommend one of these three for value and service Bluehost, Hostgator, or Godaddy. The domains will cost you $5.00-$10.00 a piece for the year depending on how many you pruchase at once, and yes you should have several domain names. In the beginning you really won't know what name might be the best moneymaker.

Your domain name is the first place to begin search engine optimization. Let's say you have a site for web hosting. When someone wants a host for their site they might search web host, web site host, hosting service, web site hosting......do you see what I mean? You need to choose your domain names as natural search words and phrases. What are people typing into the search box? What would you type into the search box? Now go to one of the suggested hosts and look for some domain names. Be creative but choose what people would naturally type as they are searching. You will get better traffic with less work this way.

With the NVU software it is very easy and quick to set up several websites. See which ones starts pulling the most views and responses and then put some extra work into those domain names that seem to be magnets for traffic. If you only have one website that website might be doing great and make you 20 sales a month, but what if you had another site making 9, one making 7, and one making 4. Now that is another 20 sales per month times 12 months. Hellll000!!! 240 sales times $20.00 is $4,800. The 10 sites are the same price to host as just one so why not?

You can download the NVU software for FREE just go to http://www.nvu.com. Follow the prompts and download the software.

Next use this link to download a complete tutorial on all the great way you can use this software to create a great page. http://www.freesecretstrategies.com/NVU Guide.pdf.

Please also download this Hosting Guide at http://www.freesecretstrategies.com/HostingBasics-.pdf. All your question about hosting and domain names will be answered in this guide.

Ok, you have your HTML editor, and your guide, and you have a domain name, and a host. Lets build a site! Open your software and check out. For the most part it works like most office software. It has font colors, styles and sizes. Just type what you want. Choose the size of your font and color and plan out a nice headline, sales text, opt-in form etc., simple and to the point. Don't give the reader too much, just direct them into what you would like them to do. You can add images where you would like, pictures of the product or service you are offering. I usually make a table center page and then lay-out this area into more tables. For instance if you want links to other parts of your website use a table that has one row and three columns. Type Articles, Links, Guide, Gifts, or whatever you would like into these columns. Center the words and make them the size and text style you like. When you click on the table you are working within that table. Click outside the links table and you are working in the bigger table. Choose size, background, and color for each table. Once you have your link table set up you will make hyperlinks that link the words you have chosen to the page you want the reader to got to. Use the same software to make your article page. Make a page with the titles to each of the articles you have. Save each article you have on a separate page as article1, article2, or by name of article. For example your site is bestwebhost. You have an article called What Makes A Good Host. You save the article as "goodhost". The hyperlink will be http://www.bestwebhost/goodhost.html. Load each named file using your file manager within your hosting site. The titles on your article page will be hyperlinked to the page set up with the article on it. The possibilities are endless!

By working tables within tables you can load pictures, put text and graphics easily wherever you would like for them to go. You can have endless pages of content that the search engines love, or send your readers to any other website out there. Go ahead and have a little fun playing with this software. It is fun and you can be quite creative.

Check out my orchid site gallery page at http://www.care-orchid-care.com/gallery.html. I am working on this site still adding and fixing as it grows in traffic. Notice the links at the top. This is a simple table. The pictures are loaded in either a table (if you want to ad text or color to the background) or you just ad the images side by side and choose the padding around each picture. This is a simple site with no expensive graphics but it looks nice and does the job. You can always purchase graphics and add them as you can afford it. The most important thing is to get started. Choose a subject, topic or product that you believe in and build your site. Get it up so the search engines can start crawling it. Get content and links added as you go and come on - build your empire!

God bless,

Marty Petrizza