Ways To Cut Down On Website Costs

Are you trying to set up a blog or website in the hope of making a little extra money. Good for you! A big fear of many newbies though is the costs involved in setting up a website.

A major fear is the costs invovled in the physical website itself. My suggestion is to first start with a Wordpress site. Hey, this site uses Wordpress! Wordpress is incredibly easy to use….and it’s free! There are tons of Wordpress themes to choose from. Just use your friend Google to find one that suits your niche.

The next thing you will need to do is buy your domain and host your site. My suggestion is to just use Godaddy. Their domains are cheap, $8 a year for .com and $1 a year for .info. Hosting is about $4-$5 a month, which is standard.

Next, you’ll need to create content for your website. Since you are doing this yourself, this is free!

Finally, you’ll need to promote your website. There are a variety of SEO submission services out there, but all of these cost money. To save money and do it yourself, try submitting articles to free articles directories like ezinearticles.com and articlecircle.com. This will help you get links to your website, which will help your website rank in Google.

Another free tool to take advantage of is Blog Carnival. Here, you can exchange links with other bloggers, as everyone helps out each other to get their blogs more traffic.