Back in April 2007, Seth wrote about difficulties small businesses face building up online identities. Entrepreneurs don’t always have the time or know-how to design and program elaborate sites. Traditional Yellow Page advertising is expensive and doesn’t always reach the target audience. Unscrupulous seminars sell expensive, proprietary solutions that don’t deliver anything more than the free software that is running this site, but cost $1000’s of dollars more.
What’s the solution? Register a domain name for less than $10. Sign up for basic webhosting for less than $10 a month that includes a 1 click installation for Wordpress. Install Wordpress and instantly you’ll have a great looking website that you can update yourself, add pictures, videos, coupons, newsletters, podcasts and more.
What’s the 52-Page Project? Most small business websites consist of only a few, rarely updated pages such as a home page, an about page, a products/services page, a FAQ page, and a contact page and rarely rank highly with any search engine. What Google and others seem to like is fresh and unique content along with links to your website from other websites. With the 52 Page Project you’ll be writing for your business’s website on a regular basis. Imagine, if you write one page a week for a year you’ll have 52 pages indexed by the search engines! That’s 47 more pages than your average competitor will have.
I’m going to help you along the way using this blog. I love brainstorming ideas for creative content and can help you no matter what industry you’re in. Yesterday, I met a mason and started talking about websites. Within 15 minutes we had ideas for a dozen different things to write about and soon he’s going to have an amazing site to show his previous and prospective clients. I can also help with choosing a domain name and selecting a webhost that will fit you needs and budget.
The best way to reach me is by email at “yaacov at 52pageproject dot com”. If you have ideas or feedback to share with everyone, click on the comment button and leave a message.
Visit again soon,
Yaacov