Advertising Your Website To The World

Advertising Your Website To The World

It's no secret that most aspiring home based business owners desire to have a presence on the World Wide Web, and for good reason.

If you prefer a ''do it yourself'' approach, you can save a great deal of money by building your own Web site for your business.

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) codes are used as the foundation of almost all Web sites. The great thing about HTML is that in a rather short period of time, you can have enough knowledge to design some rather impressive Web pages.

If you are already versed in HTML, then you might have already considered building your own Web presence. If you would like to learn HTML, you can do so by visiting this Tutorial.

Selecting A Web Host

You have a product or service, you are planning on designing your own Web presence, now you just need a host for your Web site.

A Web site host is simply the place that you will ''park'' your Web site. Choosing which hosting provider to use for your home based business Web site is your first step.

You can either purchase a domain name (Web address) and then select a hosting provider to host your domain name, or you can build your Web site with a free Web site hosting provider like Tripod. Tripod is a great hosting provider to consider when it comes to free Web hosting. Geocities is another popular free Web site hosting provider.

If you build your site with one of these free hosting providers, or any other, you will also be creating your domain name during this process.

In addition, many free Web hosting providers also offer paid hosting packages. If you decide to go with free hosting, the hosting provider will then run various forms of sponsored advertisements on your Web site. For a fee, however, you can have the advertising removed. In addition to paying to have advertising removed, you can also purchase more bandwidth and disk space if needed.

Once you have created your Web site, you will then have a Web address that is ready to be added to the World Wide Web. Your next step is to have your Web address registered with search engines. Informtion on getting your Web site registered with search engines can be found here.

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