How to Make Your Own Free Website: And Your Free Blog Too
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Did you think only a professional web-designer could create that?
If so then you're in luck, because it's never been easier or less expensive to make your own free website. Yes, you really can do this; anyone can because it's easy!
There's no need to learn HTML coding anymore because venues have made it simple with WYSIWYG editing (what you see is what you get). This book is a comprehensive, straight to the point, simple to follow guide. It's written in terms anyone can understand from the computer beginner to advanced users who will benefit from extra advice.
With this guide you'll learn to:
• Make Free Websites.
• Make Free Blogs.
• Customize Your Widgets.
• Sell With PayPal buttons.
• Drive Traffic with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
• Maximize SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
• Rise in Google-Yahoo-Bing rankings.
• Submit free Online Articles and Press Releases.
• Grow an Email List of Contacts.
• And much more.
Plus it's easy, fun and makes the most of entirely free tools.
You're guaranteed to save time, money and effort. Today is the day to jump-start your online presence and make your own free website!
Jason Matthews
Jason Matthews was an officer of the CIA’s Operations Directorate. Over a thirty-three-year career he served in multiple overseas locations, spoke six foreign languages, and engaged in clandestine collection of national security intelligence, specializing in denied-area operations. Matthews conducted recruitment operations against Soviet–East European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Caribbean targets. As Chief in various CIA Stations, he collaborated with foreign partners in counterproliferation and counterterrorism operations. His first novel, Red Sparrow, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was made into a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence. He continued the Red Sparrow trilogy with Palace of Treason and The Kremlin’s Candidate. Jason Matthews passed away in 2021.
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How to Make Your Own Free Website - Jason Matthews
How to Make Your Own Free Website:
And Your Free Blog Too
by Jason Matthews
This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. © No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author. Copyright © 2010 Jason Matthews, updated January 2012. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Preliminary Questions and Remarks
Website or Blog, What's the Difference?
Deciding on a Domain Name
The List of Free Website Companies
The List of Free Blogging Companies
Building Your Website
Building Your Blog Site
Common Custom Modules/Widgets
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Social Media
Selling With PayPal
PR (Public Relations)
Other Things You Can Do
Maintenance
Review List of Highly Recommended Programs and Sites
Organizations to Donate to Once You Can
Cheating With Money
Introduction
A few years ago I didn't know that I could create a website for free. I simply didn't realize it was possible or how easy it could be. I also didn't entirely understand what a blog was. Blog
was one of those foreign internet buzzwords like RSS feed
and Podcast.
It was slightly embarrassing but true as I was pretty clueless when it came to internet terminology and felt too shy to ask questions. As a result it seemed like the only way to accomplish anything online for my business ideas was to hire someone else to do it.
And so I paid professional webdesigners to create webpages promoting me and my businesses, which immediately became frustrating and expensive. In about a year's time I spent thousands of dollars on four different professionals to build four different sites: three websites and one blog. In each case they did their best to interpret my concepts and come up with sites that worked for me.
The process typically went like this; I'd come up with some ideas and write them down on a piece of paper. Then I'd share those ideas with a webdesigner who would spend time working on the concept. Weeks later he/she would show me what had been done. I'd look at it and say, Not bad, but can we make some changes?
Then we'd go over the changes and the designer would spend time incorporating them. Weeks later the changes would get finished. I'd take another look and say, Pretty good, but can we do these things as well?
The webdesigner would go back to work and make the additions. Weeks later I'd see the latest version of my site and so on and so on.
It was an endless cycle. Whenever I wanted anything done it typically took a week or more to accomplish, and my professional webdesigners charged anywhere from $45 to $120 per hour. Not cheap. No wonder it ate up my savings.
What was worse than the costs and delays was that their work ultimately did little to advance my career. As very few visitors showed up at these sites it became evident that I still had to market myself and the websites. That meant submitting articles, press releases, commenting in forums and on other people's blog posts and more. Just because a pro builds your website, there's no guarantee people will visit. I learned real work was needed to drive traffic to the website. Nobody was going to do that for me unless I also wanted to hire out.
And the really nasty lesson that was waiting, the one which made me both laugh and cry when I realized it, was discovering I could have built these things for free by myself! It wasn't rocket science. I could have done a fine job, good enough for my needs. I could have created the site, updated it, made changes, whatever I wanted at any time. And everything could have been done for free.
This was an alien concept to me just a few years ago. Had I known how easy it was to create websites and blogs for free, it would have saved massive amounts of time, money and frustration.
Those days are over. Now if I have an idea that requires an online presence, I just make the website or blog myself. It's actually pretty easy and entirely free. Both the websites and blogs come with site-building
software so anyone can learn to do it. The monthly hosting is also included so there literally are no costs involved.
The only requirement is a bit of your time, and you too can easily make your own free websites and blogs.
Plus it's fun. I get a real kick seeing a webpage online that I created. And it's simple to add links to social media pages like Facebook, plus I can embed YouTube videos, links to other websites and PayPal buttons or shopping carts for anything I want to sell. The best parts are that it's 100% free, changes can happen anytime and those changes get done instantly.
If you're anything like me, you probably have ideas for things to do online. Maybe you have products to sell. Maybe you'd like some information pages describing your business. Maybe you'd like to post photos and video of friends and family. Maybe you want to create a social networking site that puts like-minded people together. Maybe you have recipes or stories to share or sell. Whatever it is you want to do online, it can be accomplished for free.
Preliminary Questions and Remarks
Think about some of the questions you might have before getting started. Do you want a website or a blog or both, and do you understand the difference between the two? Will you need to learn more about computers or know any HTML coding? What would be a good domain name for your site? How will you drive traffic to visit? How will you optimize your SEO rankings with Google? Will you sell products or need PayPal buttons? Will you have multiple pages, and will some of them have special functions like a forum or contact form?
These are just some of the questions you're likely to come across along the way. I'm going to discuss each of these and many other topics in this book.
The most important aspect for building websites and blogs, for those who aren't computer experts and want to keep it simple, is to use free hosting sites that come with site-building
software. This is a built-in program allowing you, the designer, to easily manage a template and add the elements to webpages that you'll need to accomplish goals.
I stumbled across these things just a short time ago while waiting for the last professional webdesigner to build a site for me. I was goofing around online and discovered a place where anyone could create a site for free. And so I made a mock version
of the site I was presently hiring out for. In just a few hours, it amazed me to see a perfectly functioning site of what I was trying to do. It came together fairly easily, it cost nothing, it worked, and I had done everything myself.
Just to make things clear, I don't know advanced HTML coding (webpage language), and no one has to learn this anymore to create a website. Yes, you could learn advanced HTML if you really want to and I'll be teaching some of the basics. But many people don't have the time or patience for that, and the good news is they don't have to. With site-building software at your fingertips, anyone can easily create her/his own functional and professional looking website.
But before we get to all of the instruction that follows, let me mention a few things. First, the order in which you do the coming tips is not meant to be in any sequence. You can do them in several orders and still succeed. This is just my recommendation, what I've found from experience to make sense. Some of you may not need much advice on social media links, for example, and so you may want to skim those parts. I also recommend you read through this entirely before getting entrenched in any one area. It's not a big book but it's jam-packed with information. Reading through it once entirely will give you a clearer idea on the whole scheme of things before you get started. Or if you want to jump right in, you can actually follow these steps like a manual and it will still work just fine. The order is really up to you.
Secondly, I'm going to present you with a wealth of information. For some, most of this will be new; for others there will be parts that feel like a review. All of it has to do with online methods for accomplishing your goals, so those who are less familiar with the internet and their computers may at times feel overwhelmed. Not to worry, feeling overwhelmed by this is a natural response and something I've experienced plenty of times. (You may want to copy that last line and paste it on your computer as a reminder.) I totally understand. There will be moments where it seems like a ton of new things to learn and