There are many companies that do offer free hosting plans, but even though you may not be paying for it, the free web space will come as a cost.

Let me say there are certain times when you may want to use a free hosting provider.

• Keep in touch with family and friends for an up-and-coming special occasion
• Working on a school project

The above are not the only reasons why you may want to have a free host but if you building a website for profit or have a local small business and want to have a web presence, then you should not be using a free web host.

Why Not Use Free Hosting?

If you are looking to make money online with a web site, using a free hosting company does not look very professional. If you can’t take your business seriously, then I don’t believe your visitors will.

Many times when you have an account with a free hosting provider, you do not have your own domain name. Your URL may look something like this,

www.thebigfreesite.yoursite.com

You are actually a subdomain and that does not look very professional.

If you are using the free space because you have a local small business, using a sub-domain can be harmful to your business reputation.

Most business owners will use their small business name as their domain name to make it easier for people to find them on the Internet.

If you can’t afford to spend $5.00 a month to be seen online, then you need to review your budget for advertising as that is why many of the local small business are getting online. It is very cheap advertising. You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars to be put into a telephone book that many people don’t use anymore.

Hosting Space

The hosting space since it is free is very limited. Because of limited space, you may not have room for all the web pages you plan on creating.

This could create problems for you in the long run.

You can actually purchase a hosting account with unlimited bandwidth and diskspace for under $5.00 a month at Hostgator.

As you can see the cost of web hosting is very affordable.

Many hosting companies even have a free domain name for life when you purchase your hosting through them.

Ads on Hosting

To generate money, most of the free hosting services will put ads on your site. You, unfortunately, will not reap any of the profit.

Once your site is online, you will not be able to put any ads on it, as most of the providers do not want you taking away from their profits.

So maybe free web hosting is just what you need, but before you start creating a website with a provider, make sure you answer this question honestly.

If my free hosted web site disappeared tomorrow, would it really matter?

You need to answer that question honestly, as I have known people that have devoted a lot of time and created large sites using free hosting space, only to find one day it was gone.

They not only lost income from it, but all the time spent designing and building the site just how they wanted.

They had to start over.

This free web site hosting program is only offered to public schools K-12 located in the United States.

Being a teacher is very difficult work but very important and Lunarpages hosting company would like to be able to give back to communities.

This free web hosting plan can help schools and districts create websites to keep parents informed of homework assigned and class projects, help communication between parents and teachers, share information between districts or other classrooms within a school and much more.

If you are a district administrator, school principal, classroom teacher or PTA representative, contact Lunarpages.com web hosting and see how they can help you become visible on the web.

Lunarpages free hosting plan provides unlimited phone and email support, unlimited email addresses and FTP accounts, 500 MB storage, and 20 GB data transfer for each new account.

As long as this free hosting account is used for educational purposes, there is no restriction on the use of the hosting plan as long as it is opened by a public school official.

Unfortunately, at this time private schools, colleges, churches, non-profit organizations, day cares, and public schools outside the United States are NOT eligible to participate at this time.

By creating websites, using this program may help teach your students more than just how to surf the Internet.

With all the other information they are being taught in the classrooms, learning how to create, build and maintain a website could be a huge learning experience.

Lunarpages free web hosting for schools.

There are so many books and information on designing your own website, but I found very few ebooks on how to make your own website.

So I made one (which is free) to help people learn the basics of creating a site.

If you are a beginner trying to figure out the how to of:

• building your own site from scratch
• keyword research
• make money by creating a site
• best software to use
• website layout
• tools needed
• generating traffic to your new site

Then this book is for you.

It does not matter what you are creating a website for and even if you don’t know what you want your site to be about, this basic guide shows you where to get ideas to make your own.

Complete Guide to Creating a Website

It may seem like a difficult task to undertake but I have taken all the steps, consolidated them and explained with images to help you learn.

Make Money by Creating a Site

Even if you are thinking of creating one to make a profit, this guide explains the basics of how and where you can search for profitable website niche ideas.

If you already have an idea, this guide also shows how you can find  micro-niches within a niche area.

Creating a New Site

If you are a beginner this guide will help you learn the steps or if you’re a new webmaster and having problems generating traffic, it shows what you can do to help bring in targeted traffic.

You don’t need any special skills or be proficient in HTML to start building your own.

Complete Guide to Creating a Website

They all wanted me to buy this product and that product.

It seems all of them told me I needed to buy a domain name and web hosting first, then start creating a site.

Heck, how can I even decide on a name when I was not sure of what I will be creating a website for.

I needed help with first of all finding a niche.

Where do I look?  How do I find out if it is profitable? What about competition? Is there alot?

So many questions and the books never gave me answers. Only told me to buy a domain from this registrar and web hosting from this provider.

It was so very frustrating. Even more frustrating when I was trying to make a website that the search engines would find. And better yet, visitors would find me.

My creating websites tutorial does have a lot of steps and I realized there needed to be a quick guide for beginners to make it easy.

So even though there are many steps to creating a website, I decided to create a free quick start book to guide you on how to start building a website.

Before Creating a Website Name

This free book starts you off with learning how to find a profitable niche, doing keyword research and spying on your competitors.

Then guides you on which website software would be good to use for making your own site.

It gives you the basics on helping you start to create your own website from researching a niche to understanding and learning how to drive traffic to your site.

Want to Make Money With Your Website?

Sure you do.  If you don’t know where to start, my quick guide explains to you how you can get into affiliate marketing and start making money with your site.

Not sure if there will be any affiliate programs to fit into your theme?  Don’t worry, as this is a complete tutorial with images to help you find affiliate programs just for your theme.

The tools that are used to research your information before you build are free.

The only costs you will have is for a domain name, hosting and web design software (you can use free).

So take a few minutes and see this Complete Guide to Creating a Website.

Yes, if you are trying to figure out all the steps you need to create your own website.

No, if you have a step by step tutorial to help you through.

You will find it very difficult, time consuming and extremely frustrating to get your own website off the drawing board and live on the Internet if you are not using a guide to help you.

You don’t need to pay someone to build a website for you because even with very little computer skills you can learn how to plan, design and build your own web pages so that the search engines and visitors will be able to find you.

How Can I Create My Own Website Easily?

By having a step by step tutorial which shows you the complete website development process.

Here is a how to create a website tutorial, which is free so you can learn from start to finish the easy way to begin building your own website.

Many sites tell you to register a domain and get web hosting.

Well, there are many more steps that you need to do.

Don’t worry as the free tutorial explains to you how to plan, research niche website ideas, design web pages, search engine optimization, generating traffic to your site and even how to make money from your website even if you don’t have a product to sell.

I have seen so many articles that say creating your own website is so difficult that you should pay someone else to do it.

Don’t Pay Anyone To Create a Website That You Can Do Yourself!

There are many web design software products available online you don’t even need to learn HTML (but it is a good idea).

Even if you don’t know all the internet jargon, this website development tutorial explains everything you need to know.

The great thing about taking the time creating your own site is you will have complete control over it. So that, as you need (or want to make changes) you can do them yourself.

The biggest step is the first one.

I know when I first started creating websites it seemed they never seemed to work.

I was so mad and was ready to quit.

That is the reason I created my website tutorial.

To give others what I did not have when I was learning how to create my own site. A Step-by-Step Website Tutorial.

This important task can be easily done by using an
autoresponder.

Since most people don’t usually buy the first time they
visit your site, you need to build a certain level of trust
in your site and this is not generally done on the first or even the second visit.

To overcome this you can offer a newsletter by using an autoresponder to stay in touch with your visitors and remind them why they should re-visit your site and/or buy products you recommend or sell.

If done effectively, it may increase your sales tremendously.

For those of you that may not know, an autoresponder is an automatic e-mail message or series of messages that are sent at certain intervals specified by the sender.

Autoresponders are good tools for building relationships with your existing visitors by following up on purchases and promoting additional products you may have to offer. They also help you establish trust with your visitors that have given their e-mail addresses to you but have not yet
purchased anything from you.

However, before you start collecting email addresses, here are certain things you should keep in mind:

1. Learn your visitors and their needs.

The more you know about them, the better you can tailor your messages to their wants and desires.

You want to be able to push their emotional buttons, answer any questions, and be able to provide solutions to potential problems they may have.

Don’t start sending out junk, you’ll lose your subscribers in a heartbeat.

The AWeber autoresponder lets you customize a form which will allow you to not only collect email addresses, but can gather other information about your subscribers (age, sex, hobbies, etc.) and it is all stored in
a report you can review at any time.

2. Keep your e-mail messages relevant.

Stay focused. Remember, it is very important to keep your visitors interested. Put yourself in their shoes for a minute and think about what you would want to know if you were in their position.

3. Don’t be too anxious to close the sale.

If you throw one sales pitch after another in your emails, it will be obvious the only thing you’re trying to do is get a sale. Sure that’s your ultimate goal, but you can’t make it so obvious.

The exception: If your autoresponder is setup to send emails to people who have already purchased something from you and your goal is to promote the other products at your site, you can be a little more forward about getting the sale in this situation because these people have already purchased from you.

Your conversion rate may be a lot higher with these people than a person who has never bought from you.

4. Add value to your subscription

Offer freebies only to your subscribers. Make sure the free offer is relevant to their needs and is of good value. Don’t insult them by offering some product that they won’t want or need.

5. Show personality

Show people there is a human behind these emails and sale pitches. Add a humor touch in a world where faces are not seen at times. Lighten up your messages by adding humor now and then.

My Favorite Autoresponder is…

AWeber. I send out monthly newsletters and their autoresponder comes in handy because I set up the newsletters in advance and then AWeber sends them out at the interval I specify.

I tried other autoresponder programs but they did not offer half as much as AWeber.

Many successful affiliates said their autoresponder was their most effective marketing tool and many of them use Aweber. They stress how important it is to build relationships and conduct follow-ups via email.

Aweber’s autoresponder allows you to send an unlimited amount of follow-up messages at the intervals you specify. They provide great reports that include “open rate”, “click-thru rate”, and leads generated daily, weekly and monthly. You are also able to import leads into your account and they allow you to create as many different lists as you want (newsletters, follow-up to purchases, special promotions etc.) and you can even send HTML emails.

Here are the details on AWeber autoresponder free trial

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