SEO Tips Australia

There are thousands upon thousands of web hosting companies out there. Many of them are excellent, but a lot of them are absolute garbage. And it's very hard to know which are substandard, particularly if you are new to website creation. If you're not careful, you can easily get locked into paying for a substandard host. It's a terrible feeling. You may not be forking out much, but that monthly fee really adds up over time. And you can feel reluctant to leave because you don't want to start all over again.

That's why I recommend using a good free web host to begin with. Then you can tinker with your site at your leisure at no financial cost, and learn heaps in the process. Such a host may be perfectly adequate for all your needs, particularly if you have a small personal site. But if it isn't then you can either upgrade to that host's paid version, or go looking for a quality paid host, since by this stage you'll have a lot more knowledge and can make a really wise choice.

There are several web hosts I've found which are ideal for this approach. They are Weebly (where this site is hosted), as well as Webnode, Yola and Webstarts, which are linked through the banners below. (You should also check out Doomby, a company based in France.) They are all free to use. They have great drag and drop web page builders included. So you can build a decent looking site in minutes without having any specific knowledge. Basically, if you can send an e-mail, you can build a decent looking site with all of them.

Also, they all have blogging tools included. You don't have to do anything remotely geeky to have a site blog attached to your domain (which you might have to do with some other web hosts). The blogging tool is a big plus because a blog is a great way to bring in search engine traffic. Google loves original content, remember. Just keep adding unique, relevant stuff to your blog and that will improve your site SEO all on its own.

Just as incorporating a blog is really simple with these sites, so is buying a unique top-level domain. All but one of them have much the same setup where you choose a domain from within your account and pay for it securely by credit card. Your free site is pretty much instantly published to that domain. And if you have purchased a domain elsewhere you can also publish to it, and still get the hosting free. (If you wish to do either of these things with Webstarts you have to upgrade to Pro, but that's still only a few dollars US a month.)