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  Building Your Own Website
 

Image is important.
Your business website should not look amateurish.

Some web hosts include free website-building software that will let you produce a good-looking site.

Keep it simple. A visitor to your website is looking for information. Be sure they can find it easily and quickly. For contractors, that means:
   - What you do
   - Where you do it (territory you cover)
   - How to contact you (e-mail link and phone number).

On this page, and here, we'll give you some tips.
  

  If you're going to build your own website
 

Here are some sites we recommend:

 Website Hosting
HostGator - good pricing, excellent support forum comments
  1&1 hosting: First 3 months FREE with this link forum comments
  iPower forum comments
   
  FatCow $88 Plan for $44 only
   
 Domain Name Registration
1&1 domain names & hosting
   
 
   
 Optimize Your Site For Search Engines
 

When building your site, make use of optimization tricks to get a better placement in search engines. If your site is not in the first 3 or 4 pages of a search, people won't find it. People often don't look past the first 3 or 4 pages of search results.

Click here for optimization tips and metatag generator.

   
 Register With Search Engines
  Register your website with at least the 3 major search engines.
Registration links:
     Submit site to google
   Submit site to Bing
   
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iCLIPART.com.
  Photos.com. 325,000+ Stock Photos & Photo Objects for $99.95.
www.logoworks.com
DreamTemplate
  HelpfulWebStuff.com
   
  Photos.com - Royalty-free Stock Photography
   
  Be sure your site has a web log.
  Check it periodically, to see if you're getting any hits from search engines.
If not, check back with us.
We may be able to help.
  
  Website review

Do you have an existing website?

Maybe we can help.


   Links
  Optimizing Your Web Pages
Web Marketing Tips
Meta Tag Generator
Submit site to google
Submit site to yahoo (you will need a yahoo user id)
Submit site to Bing




 


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