Having My Own Website: a free guide to setting up your own website

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This free guide is intended to help you to set up your own website and to get it listed in search engines.

You want to communicate information or opinions to your customers, clients, organization members or friend.
You want more visibility for your business or organization.
You want to sell goods or services, or solicit donations.
You want to provide round-the-clock answers to questions about a product, a disease, a musical group, a passion, a hobby. You want to free up your service people for the hard questions.
You want to sign people up for a service or membership

Are there better ways to communicate with your audience?
Just because everyone seems to have a website these days, that doesn't mean you need one too. If your business is purely local, you might better spend your time joining the Rotary Club or the Chamber of Commerce.
It takes time and energy to set up a website and keep it updated.
You'll have to gather the pictures you want to use for your website. You'll have to plan the website and you'll have to write the website page copy. Even if you were to hire a professional website designer, those are tasks you won't be able to delegate.
Are there better ways to get visibility online?

There are ways to get online without setting up a website. One of them might even fit your needs better than setting up a website of your own. For some suggestions, see Lower hassle alternatives.

You have several good choices.

You can build a website yourself using one of several good services designed for the non-technical do-it-yourselfer, for example, www.GoDaddy.com or Homestead, from the makers of Quickbooks.
You can build a site with a site building tool offered by your web host. For example, Green Geeks is a regular hosting company — with the added attraction of being "energy neutral" — that throws in a site building tool with your hosting fee. You will get less handholding with a company like this, but they're usually cheaper.
You can download or buy a web creation tool and use a regular hosting company
You can hire someone.

In all three of those cases, you'll need to learn the basics of getting your website recognized in the major search engines, such as Google.

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