How To Easily Build Your Own Website!

 How To Easily Build Your Own Website Even If You Are Not Techy!!



Nowadays, you don’t have to be a tech wiz in order to build a website. In fact, you don’t even have to be tech-savvy. Website building is no longer reserved for the technology experts who know the ins and outs of computers and can write code. There are easy to use website builders such as Wix.com with ready made templates. With drag and drop editors, and endless choices of templates and functions, anyone can create a professional and great-looking website within minutes. If you can fill out a form, you can build your own beautiful and functional website exactly to your taste!
In the past, professionals and individuals looking to create a website have been forced to hire expensive professional graphic designers and computer programmers to do all of the work for them. Not any more! Building your own site is simple, and will save you tons of money. You won’t even have to install any programs onto your computer, because most website building companies are accessible via web browser.

The basic premise of these website builders is easy-use for the average Joe. These companies have recognized that more and more people without the skill to build sites are interested in doing so, and they’ve provided the solution. These new site builders are as simple as the word processor that you use at home. They make use of pre-set templates that you can choose, which immediately give you a general outline for your desired website. You can start with a basic template and then just follow the simple instructions to customize the design of your site to your taste. You control everything, including the backgrounds, colors as well as interesting textures. A simple site can literally be done in a matter of minutes! Here’s the:




Simple Step-By-Step Process:

1. Choose a template
2. Choose images
3. Upload your text and multi-media
4. Customize it
5. PUBLISH!

It’s really that easy. These easy to use website builders will provide you with all of the technological advancements and options that an expensive professional would charge you a small fortune for. And that is not all! Nowadays it is estimated that people spend up to 40% of their Internet time on their mobile devices. The leading Website building company Wix.com even gives you the ability to make your site mobile compatible, giving you the best of all worlds. That’s certainly not a market you want to miss out on and a feature that professional site builders will charge extra for.
So what are you waiting for? Don’t be intimidated. Head over to Wix.com and find out for yourself how easy and simple building your dream website can be!

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Save Money by Building Your Company’s Website With Wix

Building a company website is one of the most important parts of creating a successful business. It doesn’t make a difference if your company is based on the internet or a traditional brick-and-mortar business, an online presence is a requirement to reach and expand your customer base. But designing a website can be time consuming and expensive. Web designers are difficult to work with, and even though you’re paying them, they’re really only working for themselves. There are cheaper ways to establish your company online, and Wix.com stands out amongst them.
Wix.com offers free HTML5 and Flash website design that you can do on your own, without having to pay for a pricey web designer. With unlimited space for as many pages as you want, customized looks, photo galleries, animations, and blog platform capabilities, social networking buttons, Wix has everything a business of any size needs to make an impact online. You get full control over what information fills in the blanks, and you don’t have to know a thing about HTML to make this work. The way your website looks says a lot about your company. Wix does that, and it does it for free.
You need your website to look professional, and to communicate your brand to the world. Wix lets you create a website that does all that and won’t make you go bankrupt. All of the 280 templates available on Wix are professional grade web design without the pricey web designer. Another thing that makes Wix the most affordable option in creating a website is that you don’t have to pay for a separate web host—every page created on Wix is hosted on Wix, free of charge.
The internet is the marketplace of ideas: your company needs to share what you think. If you think just because you don’t sell a product online you don’t need a website you’re dead wrong. Thinking like that is the equivalent of not advertising because you can’t buy your product from an ad, or not having a business card because people can always look up your number in the phone book—it doesn’t make sense.  No matter what kind of business you have, if you want to reach an audience you want to have a website that speaks to people. Wix lets you do that as quickly and easily as possible for free.

If you have a bigger budget, Wix has more options than just the free web sites design. You can choose to upgrade to the ad-less version which won’t clutter up your customer’s screens when they visit your site. But if the most important thing to you is getting your company’s name online right now, try Wix.com today.

Top 10 Of The Best Website Builders of 2014

Things have come a long way from the times where you had to pay a website designer hundreds of dollars just to get a simple website up and running. These days, there are websites that will actually give you a full website for free, and they arent bad either. Of course, some of them are shocking and you would be ashamed to have them as your website, but many of them look promising. Here is a list of 10 of the best places online where you can create a website for free.

1. Weebly

This is a great website where all internet users can create their very own website, regardless of technical knowledge. Click here to visit the website.

2. Webs

Formerly named Freewebs.com, Webs now offers nore than just free website hosting, you can actually create a website for free. Click here to visit the website.

3. Webnode

This in another great free website designer that is online and almost anyone can make use of it. Click here to visit the website.

4. Jimdo

With this website, users can actually choose a design and then customise it to suit their needs. Click here to visit the website.

5. AngelFire

This is another website where you can drag and drop everythng into place. Created by Lycos, you can be sure it is a great service. Click here to visit the website.

6. SnapPages

The idea of this website is that you can drag and drop everything you want into place making it super simple. Click here to visit the website.

7. Yola

This is a great option if you are a business user and want to get a website up and running but without the costs. Click here to visit the website.

8. FreeWeb

Not to be mistaken with Freewebs. This website has over 300 great designs you can customise easily. Click here to visit the website.

9. Google Sites

Of course, Google doesn’t miss out on anything and website design is one of them. This is a great way to create a free site. Click here to visit the website.

10. Office Live Small Business

This is a great tool from Microsoft and it is great for small business users. Click here to visit the website.

5 tips for Earning Money selling Ads on my site blog

Hello,

I'd like to give you some tips I've used to grow my income from selling ads on my sites.

You see, before I was not interested in selling ads on my sites, I used adsense and grow lazy, I didn't want anything to do with talking with the ad buyers or dealing with renewal of ads, etc.

But then I tried buysellads.com because they take 25% of the price, but they deal with payments and advertizers, plus they have a marketplace which means my ad spots are found not only by my sites visitors but also by advertizers browsing the buysellads marketplace.

At first I only used buysellads to sell the 125x125 pixels ad spots.

That's all I did. I didn't sell many.

After I started applying the following tips and my ad sales have greatly increased, at the moment I'm earning about $15 per day just by ad sales, which is in fact $20 minus the buysellads share. And that makes about $500 per month, and it's only a beginning since I've used those tips only on 2 sites of mine.

1. advertise the fact that you have advertisements
Although it may seem obvious that you have ad spot for sale to you, the more you advertise that fact the better. So have in your menu and in your footer a link to a page which lists your ad spots and price. Buysellads provides you with a javascript you can add on your page that will show ad spots, sizes, traffic, prices and advertisers can order directly from there.
On this page also add some text to tell advertisers what you know about your site audience, some of it you can find via the summary in Alexa..
For instance or my shetoldme site it is found there: http://www.alexa.com
"Shetoldme.com has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 19,686. The site has a relatively good traffic rank in the city of Chandigarh (#1,753), and this site has a bounce rate of roughly 44% (i.e., 44% of visits consist of only one pageview). Relative to the overall population of internet users, Shetoldme.com's users tend to be under the age of 35, and they tend to be men earning less than $30,000 who browse from home. While we estimate that 59% of this site's visitors are in India, where it is ranked #3,236, it is also popular in Bangladesh, where it is ranked #2,023."
So only use the things that are useful to you. For me the fact that the site is popular in India and Bangladesh is NOT something I'll put in my page. But I'll mention the part about the demographic, even bend it to say that it caters more to a female audience if I think it will attract more advertisers.
Still in the tip about advertise that you have ad spot, use your forum signature in webmaster forums to tell other members that you have ads for sale, since all advertisers are webmasters/bloggers in some way or another, it is the perfect audience for this part of your business.

2. provide standard sizes
As I said at first I only offered 125x125 ad spots, because those were popular in blogs. But my sites are not even blogs! And plus 125x125 is small. The standard sizes you want to provide to the advertisers are 468x60, 120x600, 160x600, 300x250, 720x90, etc.. provide as many as you want, but me I limit myself to 125x125, 300x250, 720x90 and 160x600 but I should also offer 468x60 since it is THE original standard. That's something I'll add to my arsenal.

3. fake scarity
In buysellads interface (or your own if you choose to do direct sales) always keep the available ad spots limited to 1. For instance if you plan to offer 10 ad spot of size 125x125 and you currently have 2 advertisers don't have it look like 8/10 available. But reduce the number to 3 so that it looks like 1/3 available. That will prompt advertisers to act fast (now) to take the ad spot, since it could be taken by someone else if they wait until tomorrow to decide. When you have a new advertiser, then when you go to buysellads to approve the ad, then change also the maximum so it will look like 1/4 available for the next advertiser.
This is ok when you provide ad spots which are always displayed 100% of the time, it doesn't change anything. But you should not do it (morally) if you choose to have one ad spot where ads are rotated, because having 3 ads in one ad spot is not the same in terms of impressions as having 5 ads in one ad spot.

4. give the best ad locations
Don't be tempted to hide your ads down below. The advertisers are not cash cows, if they spend their hard earned money to advertise on your site they will track the results and depending on weither they get clicks (CTR) and if your traffic converts they'll decidde to renew or not renew their ad. It is better to keep one existing advertiser for one year than to have 12 advertisers who stay only one month because your ad placements are not useful to them. If you are not sure which ad locations are the best it is very easy, simply imagine you are paying money to advertise on your site.. Where would you want your ad to appear? Then you will know the best ad locations. If you currently use adsense ads on your site, you probably already have put adsense in the best ad locations and that one of the reasons why adsense perform so well, because people give the adsense ads the best locations on their site, at least they try to do that. Now imagine if instead of adsense blocks you would have direct advertisers, they would be very happy to have prime locations for their ads. That's what you want to offer them, good value for money. Of course if you use both adsense and direct ads, then you want to balance it, so try to really balance it, don't give the direct advertizers a bad deal just because adsense pays more. Maybe adsense pays more BECAUSE you give it constantly the best locations, and if you balance it a little you may find that direct ad sale will perform the same or even better than adsense after 2 or 3 months. Give yourself the chance to try at least, you can always revert back.

5. pricing your ads
What I do is I start with very low prices, the minimum at buysellads is $10 (so you earn $7.5) for 30 days. This is very low and shouldn't stay like this. But to get advertisers as soon as I put a new ad spot, it is the easiest way. Then each time a new advertisers buy an ad, I increase the price by $10. The existing advertisers will continue to pay their original price as long as they don't cancel they ad, but that's ok.
The advantage is that new advertisers will not know how much other have paid for their ad, they only see the new price and they see that other advertisers already have bought one ad, so they say to themselves that it means your traffic is converting, so they try too and order.
That's why you want to start low prices to get some advertisers on board, because the crowd attract the crowd. If your ad location is empty and priced honestly, it will be harder to get the first advertiser. But when your ad location has already several advertisers it is easier to sell one more even at an inflated price. Which will finally make a good average or you.
If you see that advertisers are cancelling their ads and the ad location starts to have less and less advertisers, reduce the price. That way after a while you'll find the right price. Because the right price is determined by the market, not by yourself ultimately. There is a sweet spot in terms of price and you can find it this way.
Other people just set the price by looking at their traffic and saying, I want that much per 1,000 impressions, so my price will be that. This can work, but personally I prefer to start low, increase over time as new advertisers order and then find the right price this way.
Sometimes the price can go very high, personally I sold ads at $97 for 30 days for a 125x125 ad spot. This was the maximum and after I didn't get much orders and then went back lower to have more. Because it's better to have 10 advertisers at $37 than one at $200. At least that's my opinion.

Conclusion
As I said those are my 5 tips, but I am still a newbie in selling ads, I think if I was more experimented I'd prefer to direct sell ads so that I don't have 25% of the price going to buysellads. For instance you can sell ads and manage it with an ad manager such as Google's DFP SMall Business ( www.google.com/) or you can do it all by hand or with a little script to manage renewal dates, orders, etc..

At the moment I'm sticking with buysellads because of their marketplace and the 25% allow me also not to have to worry about anything regarding orders, refunds, etc.. But I do that while knowing it would be more clever to have a direct relationship with advertisers so I could then put them on a mailing list to offer them special deals and new advertising opportunities whereas now with buysellads I don't have their contact information, so it is not a good long term practise.

If you have more experience in this field and would like to share it with me and others you are most welcome!

How I Converted from Blogger to WordPress

About two weeks ago I decided to take the plunge and move Technically Easy to WordPress. At the time this blog was hosted on Blogger, and I wanted more control over all aspects of my blog.

As I began to learn WordPress, and thought about all that I needed to do I was overwhelmed. I had never attempted moving a Blogger blog to WordPress before so I had no idea what I was in for. Today, however, I realized that it wasn’t complicated or difficult, and can now say Technically Easy is a WordPress blog. This post talks about how I did it.

The Requirements

Before I began to move my blog to WordPress I had a few requirements that I wanted to achieve before and after the conversion. These requirements included the following:

1. A well-known and good web host to host Technically Easy. I didn’t want to have to worry about disk space and transfers limits per month.
2. Support for problems that may occur. While I didn’t have any problems during the conversion, I wanted to have security knowing that I had some support in case of a problem.
3. Creating a development blog for testing. Similar to what I had created for Blogger, I wanted a WordPress blog that I can develop and test out my new WordPress blog before going live.
4. The links in search engine results pointing to the new WordPress blog. Most of the traffic to Technically Easy arrives from the search engines, so it was important to ensure the links from the results pages still worked.

As you can see I didn’t have a long list of requirements, but I wanted to ensure that each requirement was satisified before moving completely to WordPress. The next section will outline how each of the above requirements was met.

The Conversion Process

I was anxious and nervous about converting to WordPress, but I realized that eventually I was going to do it. I figured it would be better to convert now than later because I have less posts and comments than I would have later. In the end, however, I realized that the number of posts or comments didn’t affect the conversion.

The first thing I wanted to do was find a good host. I heard about Turnip’s (Turnip of Power) offer where he was offering a T-shirt, 2000 Entrecard credits, and support if you signed up with Bluehost using the link from his blog. On top of that, he would offer his assistance in getting your blog up and running.

What a sweet deal. I get a host and support all in one shot, which satisfied my first two requirements. I made the decision to only use his assistance when I required it. In the end I didn’t need it, but it was nice to know help was there if I did need it. After signing up, I installed WordPress easily on my host. I also wanted a second install of WordPress somewhere else for a development and testing blog.

Now with the first three requirements met, I began to learn WordPress, and experiment on my local desktop with templates, changes, and plugins. I also imported my Blogger posts and comments to get an idea of what was involved in that process.

During the developement, I allowed visitors to view my WordPress blog. I pointed technicallyeasy.net to the WordPress blog, while www.technicallyeasy.net continued to point to my Blogger blog. This allowed my to manage both blogs in parallel. Eventually I needed to merge the two into one.

When I did merge them, I needed to make sure visitors could still get to my blog from the search engines. Blogger post permalinks are different than WordPress permalinks in that Blogger truncates and drops words from their links. I didn’t want to manually update each post’s permalink, so I needed another solution, which I found.

When I performed a search I came across a blog that had two posts I found very useful:

1. Maintain permalinks moving from Blogger to WordPress. This post provides a plugin that will convert the permalinks for your imported Blogger posts to match the original Blogger permalink. This plugin worked like a charm for me.
2. Importing Haloscan comments into WordPress 2.3 from Blogger. I had used Haloscan previously with Blogger, but discontinued using it only recently. I had exported my comments to an XML file, but couldn’t import them into Blogger. The plugin provided here allowed me to import my Haloscan comments into WordPress. It didn’t import all comments, but it did get most of them. Most is better than none.

Once the above plugins were used, I had not only satisfied my last requirement, but also imported my comments that I figured I’d never display on my blog again. Now that my blog was setup it was time to go live.

I pointed www.technicallyeasy.net from Blogger to technicallyeasy.net. After a few hours, I checked www.technicallyeasy.net and noticed it was now successfully pointing to technicallyeasy.net and all was good.

As a final test, I opened Google and searched for links to Technically Easy and tried them out. They linked to the correct pages on my WordPress blog, and since then I haven’t missed a beat with traffic. Google is still my largest provider of traffic.

Conversion Experience

As I thought about what I had done in the past two weeks, I realized that it wasn’t in anyway difficult to do. Being able to find the right help at the right time was very beneficial. I also found that having a domain name originally pointing to my Blogger blog made things much easier when it came to keeping my links working in the search engines.

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