Effective Small Business Marketing

One low cost do it yourself option is using weebly.com to build your own website.

Advantages of Weebly
– Easy to use, no coding required all drag and drop, what you see is what you get functionality
– free or low cost services available
– 3 million websites have been built by people using weebly
– Easy drag and drop development
– Popular capabilities like:
– Embedment of YouTube videos onto your webpages
– Ability to add your Twitter, RSS,
– Ability to embed other html objects

Disadvantages
– You cannot add keywords to a particular page only site wide keywords
– Can not register domain names for more than 1 year. (very bad)
– hard to migrate to other platforms

How to build a Weebly website in just 5 minutes

Ok click the banner to get started

Then once you have named your site and created it these are the essential steps:

1) Select a Template (they have a bunch of attractive ones free)

You can modify the top image to suite your needs by uploading a properly sized banner. (Use picassa or your image editing software to properly size the image before uploading to weebly)

2) Create and name your pages

3) Name your site and add in Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools (Both are free tools)

4) Embed a video or add a downloadable file

5) Format your pages with a two column object

Just place you mouse on any object (hold down the left mouse button and drag the object to where you want it on a page and drop it by picking up the mouse button)

We have step by step videos on how to make a weebly website (do-it yourself) in our video series but this may be enough to get some people started.

When should you make a weebly website? How good are weebly websites?

I have a weebly website…www.openspacesconsult.com.

It has a website grade of 91.

It shows up nicely in 6 searches.It is better than 91% of the website on the web…pretty good.

Weebly websites have a flaw…you cannot add keywords and meta information on individual pages (as far as I know). You can have 6 (six) site wide keywords. So weebly sites are great for microsites where you have a few keywords and want to show up in just 6 search results. That is all I want to do with my www.openspacesconsult.com website so it works great for that purpose.

If you have a specific idea you want to test fast and cheaply, start with a weebly site then build a wordpress site later.  We show you how in our series!