The Internet is becoming the only “real estate” worth investing in at the moment. So many people are trying to sell you on how to make money online. The websites that sell products or have a shopping cart that is integrated for taking payments are called e-commerce websites. Websites used to be time consuming to create and many web owners had to depend on a webmaster to fix things or changes things. Those days are over!

I have built websites from scratch and have started using tools that help build them faster and easier – to save time and money. There are several that are not worth the time, and I’ve noticed a trend of large companies coming up with “make a website” kits. Some of these are probably good, while others may not have the options you really need. I want to recommend one website builder (for business or personal websites) that is a great, low-cost solution with tons of features. The place to go for building your own website is Quick Pro Website Builder.

Free 15-day trial – Full featured service to
make your own website with customizable templates.

Wanna know what features are included?

Here is a summary of the features and they are compared to other popular website builders: Compare Website Builders. A few of those features are:

• Builder starts by helping you build a site for your industry
• Domain registration included
• Hosting included
• Customer Database and Stats
• Add Appointment Schedulers, Calendars, Feedback & Contact Forms
• Auto Responder, Article Pages, and Event Calendars
• Ecommerce Shopping Cart  integrated
• Easily Add Product Pictures and Descriptions to your Ecommerce Shop
• Configure Shipping and Sales Tax
• Merchant Account

And there are more features that you won’t need at first but can grow into. They have a package that includes hosting and there are many templates to choose to start building a website in 5 minutes. Then, you can upload your own photos or website banner and change everything. You can also add e-commerce (a shopping cart) easily because they are one of the few services that have that ability as a built in option. Again, you don’t have to worry about what to do with hosting because they host your website for you!

If you are thinking of making a website to promote your business (such as a doctor’s office, dental office, vet services, real estate, automobile sales, beauty salon, books, gardening supplies, etc.) or sell your own products (including crafts, knitting, clothing, beads, or gifts), please check out this great place to make a website! I also want to add that their customer service is excellent – something that is hard to find online these days. Ask for any kind of help, and you will get a detailed reply (plus they have online help available).

Note: for selling affiliate products, read this post: My Secret Weapon – Building Affiliate Marketing Websites

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I want to recommend the easiest to use (and a low cost option) for buying domains (domain registration). For buying domains, I totally recommend Namecheap. Their interface is really easy to use (I have never gotten confused with it, as I have with other places I have bought domains). Compared to 1 and 1 (which is awful) and GoDaddy (which is just ok) I think Namecheap is far superior and the domains cost less. For the first year, the privacy feature for your domain is free.  There are many coupon codes available – look them up online whenever you are about to buy a domain – one place that seems to keep them up-to-date is retailmenot.

For hosting, I have never had any problems with HostGator – in fact I like this hosting company a lot! You can host one site for less than five dollars a month – of course, few people do that anymore. For multiple (unlimited) domain hosting (with all the bells and whistles) it only costs 7.95/month – though there is a slight “catch” – you have to pay for an entire year to get that low price. Still, there are other payment plans (monthly or every 6 months). And there are often coupon codes to be found to save extra money, so don’t forget to look those up before you plan on paying for hosting. There are also reseller hosting accounts that are great and don’t cost too much (for you webmasters and graphic designers).

I hope these tips help you when you start building your web empire

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I think for new marketers who are trying to monetize blogs, or those who don’t want to spend time building a site (and instead want to write killer copy and do promotion) this affiliate theme builder for WordPress blogs is a great thing to try. There are levels of service available, too – the basic package is a one time payment of $97:

• Use Affiliate Theme on a single domain/website
• Six (6) unique page templates
• Access to Video Tutorials, Knowledge Base, and Support Forum AND Affiliate Interviews

Perhaps you realize that there are not too many things in the marketing world these days that don’t require a subscription – so take advantage of this offer which will require you to only pay once. There are other packages for those who wish to use these themes on multiple websites (and another package for super affiliates).

I recommend going to take the test drive, since it is hard to describe in words something that is so well explained visually here:

So as a “mini-review” I would say this  theme builder for affiliate marketing in wordpress blogs is going for a reasonable price and it saves you a ton of time.

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For those who are new to these things offered on the world wide web, we’ll start with some information about blogs.

What is a blog?

You’ve probably been to one and didn’t even know it was a blog. Technically, a blog consists of pages on the Internet that are made with special software (in the case of this website, it’s made using WordPress). I won’t bore you with a list of all of the different software that is used, but the well-known blog writing tools are: WordPress, TypePad and Blogger.

What was once the main way to make pages for websites is changing. At one time most pages were written in a language called HTML. People could write pages using HTML code from scratch or using software that helps create the pages (such as DreamWeaver). This type of code isn’t that easy-to-use.

The inception of blogs made the whole process of writing content for the internet far easier because once the blog software is installed, the blogger only needed to select a template and start adding pages. No expertise in web writing code is necessary. This is why people can just post daily or weekly about any topic they want to write about (something that a static HTML website can not provide).

Another great thing about blog sites is the immediacy of feedback due to the way comments can be posted by readers.

Why do people make blogs?

We’ve all seen numerous blogs about celebrities and news. Some of my favorite blogs are about food, cooking and recipes. Or, those that show photos, jokes or artwork are always fun to look at. Some people’s blogs seem a bit egotistic in that they just talk about what they are doing and things they like. Basically blogging is about publishing. It helps if you have something of interest to talk about.

A newer trend in blogging is to blog about products and services and to sell them (to make money using a blog). And other sites are for providing interesting articles and education for the readers (and often also trying to make some money in the process.)

Why do companies have blogs on their websites?

Now that blogging has become so popular, businesses are starting to create blogs that discuss issues that are of interest to people in their company or industry. This is the newest trend – professional blogs. Many of these have content that has been written by paid professional writers. These business blogs are being made to increase traffic to websites. It has been found that creating a regular flow of articles and content on a site will make the searches for those topics being written about (based on the keywords used) show up in search engines (such as Google, Yahoo and MSN).

A good blog will attract readers and people will make links from their sites to it. The more the blog (or any other website for that matter) has sites linking to it – the more the search engines think the blog has importance. This will make the search engines give the site a better result in what is shown in search engine results.

This article is barely scratching the surface on the topic of blogging (but then we did say this was for internet “newbies”).

There will be more in-depth articles about how to make a successful blog and other more technical things such as how to install a blog. If you are interested in reading more, subscribe to our RSS feed or bookmark this site and visit us again.

Thanks…

WordPress Theme Studio Staff

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