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For most of us, building a website to share our personal knowledge is a little scary. You might be tempted to blog or jump into social networking, but a website seems out of reach. However, at this point in time, if you can use a word processor effectively, you can build your own website. Search Engine Optimized SitesWhen looking for a provider to host this website, my assumption was that I would need to learn yet another programming language in order to create the site. Since I have many years of programming experience, that was not a show-stopper but meant that rather than publishing, I would be spending time learning how to publish. Web design courses offered by locally were geared to teach how to publish. I was fortunate to stumble on Site Build It! (SBI). Since I have a lot of business process analysis experience, analyzing and organizing the content was not an issue. What I needed help with was knowledge about being found by search engines - search engine optimization. Unfortunately, I didn't know that I needed that knowledge. If you are interested in building a site that is optimized for the search engines, SBI is the place to start. It has been a superb learning experience and led to my site being highly ranked for many investing topics. It is slightly more expensive than either GoDaddy or Yahoo but offers keyword tools and extensive educational material on the hows and whys of building a site. Not everyone needs the optimization. It depends to some degree on whether or not you want to publish to an existing audience of if you desire to share your "Field of Dreams". If you build it, will they come if they cannot find you? Alternative ChoicesDon't need optimization or keyword tools included with Site Build It? You can check out the following plans. There are others, but I have used both of these no-programming sites and they work fine. Even better, you will not need to pay a web developer to build or maintain them since you will be able to create the sites with just word processing skills. - GoDaddy - The largest registrar of domain names. They provide both email plans and web site plans.
- Yahoo! - What can I say about Yahoo! that you don't know? How about their website hosting.
Please let me know if you have experience (good or bad) with other providers.
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