How much do websites actually help?

[jd123]

It seems like a lot of people here have websites to attract others to freebiejeebies or whatever program they're using, but I can't see how it would significantly help. Surely there's so many of these websites that you won't come up high on google searches? how would you get people to see your website? furthermore, how easy is it to create a good looking site with extremely little experience?

if anyone has any help on this subject please give me some tips, it would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance

[Madex]

SEO, Business Cards, Posters, Leaflets you name it..

Creating a website isn't that hard tbh.

There's free website builders and hosts such as weebly.com , webs.com , 000webhost.com etc..
Or alternatively, you learn HTML and CSS and you do the website either from scratch or by editing a template.

[Moneymaker1]

Websites - I think - is the key to sucess as it shows your professionality and makes the idea more plausable. I think they ate re biggest green getters, but SEO and promoting is also vital.

[Cruelworld]

Originally Posted by jd123

Surely there's so many of these websites that you won't come up high on google searches?

That is my favourite quote of the month

Website creation is one thing, but getting your site seen and up there at the top of page 1 for the best keywords are another thing entirely.

SEO is a long, hard tedious road to travel and only the best of the best successful participants will reap the real benefits.

There are people earning up to and probably over £3000 per month through freebie sites so yes, websites really can work for you.

Just be prepared to put in more work than you have ever done in your life before...

[jonline]

i think cruelworld might have scared you abit lol. seo is hard but its not impossible. as long as you do a little everyday you should be ok. the main reason i like having a website is too incresase conversions. You get alot more reds without a website because you have no proof, no explanation of why freebie sites give stuff away for free and people are less likely to believe its legit

[Cruelworld]

Originally Posted by jonline

i think cruelworld might have scared you abit lol.

Not quite sure where you are going with this :P

I answered a legitimate question with an answer.

Yes it's easy to create a site, but it's another thing to make it perform enough to make the significant difference that the OP was referring to.

We all have sites, and we all try and make them better, but there is only the select few that have struck on the required formula to make a significant difference to our conversions.

[jd123]

Originally Posted by jonline

i think cruelworld might have scared you abit lol. seo is hard but its not impossible. as long as you do a little everyday you should be ok. the main reason i like having a website is too incresase conversions. You get alot more reds without a website because you have no proof, no explanation of why freebie sites give stuff away for free and people are less likely to believe its legit

ok so maybe they help with converting a red to a green as they can be used for proof, but surely it's very hard to get hits to your site in the first place? so many people must use these free website hosts I just don't see how people are going to find my site.

i created a squidoo lens a while back for TreasureTrooper, and that worked reasonably well - would this be as good as a website?

[suparuss]

Originally Posted by jd123

ok so maybe they help with converting a red to a green as they can be used for proof, but surely it's very hard to get hits to your site in the first place? so many people must use these free website hosts I just don't see how people are going to find my site.

i created a squidoo lens a while back for TreasureTrooper, and that worked reasonably well - would this be as good as a website?

Squidoo lenses are quite good but I wouldn't use them as your only method

[ryan1087]

If you aim to get traffic to your site then you will need to get your site every possible place thinkable, facebook, twitter, forums, blogs, classifieds, claiglist ect. Do this everyday and soon enough you should get a small flow of contant unique traffic and you will be getting reds, like me (i get loads of reds but no greens lol).