Places to Find Help Building a Homestead Website

June 9, 2009

jordy smallWhen I first started learning how to work with the SiteBuilder program I was in need of getting help from Homestead Users. After several years of working inside of the Site builder, now I offer Homested website help to people who want to learn about getting more visitors to their website. In this article I am going to point you into the direction of some helpful products.

A SiteBuilder Beginner can learn from the many videos that are located at Youtube at the Homestead Website Expert channel and they are available from Google video as well. Here’s a link to some of the Homestead websites free video clips for beginners.

If you would rather get help with various topics related to working with the site builder or just how to do various things on the Internet, by reading articles, this blog about Homestead websites has a ton of useful information on it.

Perhaps your getting good at working with the sitebuilder but your having difficulty getting visitors to your website. Here’s a free Homestead Website Ebook that will give you thirty ways to increase your traffic your sitebuilder pages.

For the intermideate Intuit Site Builder user, there are Homestead website products that will move you into a more advanced level of success with your site. These products include Site Builder beginner videos, SEO tutorials for Homestead websites, a lesson on how to add a sitemap and register it with Google’s webmaster tools.

If your needing help with the site builder features, add this page to your favorites and review it over time. There is a lot of information here that will help you with building your Homestead website. There are other resources on the Internet where you can find help too.


Homestead Users Marketing Center, The Connection to Website Design, Training and Site Builder Help

February 21, 2009

The Homestead Users Marketing Center is a valuable connection to be a part of- especially if you’re new to website design. The members area includes the Site Builder Beginners Videos, the SEO Extreme Video Series (teaching search engine optimization), Site mapTutorials and an abundance of other webmaster tools. These three valuable resources – created specifically to help Site builder design enthusiasts in connection with the many articles, free Ebooks, training videos and lists of free professional resources- will propel you forward into the Internet world with ease.

An abundance of helpful information in one place exists:

There are many blogs, forums and video pages where Site Builder users can get help, but they are scattered across the Internet. The Marketing Center brings many resources together by providing a very large list of some of the best websites on the Internet to learn from. Happiness is having access to loads of information all in one place that will help you get your website launched in the right direction. The compilation of HTML tutorials, instructions on how to start a forum, resources teaching the process of establishing a successful newsletter and many tools related to making money on the Internet allow the Homestead website user to profit tremendously in varying arenas.

How would you like to learn the process of adding a blog or RSS feed to your site and also to get connected to free screen recorder and video editing information?

The “all articles in one place” section provides a continuing monthly feed of new publications that are related to topics that site builder users can glean Internet knowledge from. The abundance of information just keeps growing too because there are continual monthly additions to the learning center’s pages.

So what’s inside the Marketing Center? :

SEO Extreme Video Series, teaching Homestead users search engine optimization

The Beginners Video Series

How to create a site map and make the connection with Google

Loads of articles about design, making money, optimization and generating traffic

The connection of an abundance of blogs & forums to learn from in one place

HTML instruction and special design codes

20 “How to” videos teaching Homestead website design methods

Ebooks about Ebay, increasing traffic, starting an online business and Adsense

Loads of connections to some of the best Internet marketers online

Affiliate resources for Kontera, Adsense, Commision Juction, Linkshare and more

There are literally hundreds of hours worth of Internet study to make the connection with inside the Homestead users website. The marketing center makes the connection with everything that a site builder user needs to be a success at website design, search engine optimization, getting traffic and making money online. An abundance of training resources -through the use of videos, Ebooks, articles, blogs, forums and the many other materials- are accessible all in one place.

What does this all equal?… Happiness for Homestead users!

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Build A Commuinty Around Your Niche

February 16, 2009

I’d just like to make a few suggestions about how you can build a community around your niche. This will help your website in many different ways. Two  important things will occur as you begin  to apply these suggestions. You will Begin to create back links and also experience an increase in traffic.

Here are a few suggestions of how you can create a mass of buz that centers around your website.

Youtube
I regularly upload videos onto Youtube. Especially if I am just launching a new website, I make sure to upload a recording. Recently I added a new Marketing center to the Homestead Users website. I generated a lot of things pointing to the landing page.  One of the things I did was created a video that was recorded inside of the members area showing all of the benefits that the people would receive if they joined. When you upload to Youtube, It’s important to add a link in the more info section and give a brief description of your video.

WordPress, Blogger & Live Journal
These are three of the blogs that I like to use in order to create more activity to my main websites pages. As I write articles in these various places,  I create links that point to various pages of my main website.

Forums
Community forums are a great place to generate traffic and also to create back links that point to your pages. Make an active signature link that points to your web page of choice.

Ezine Articles
Write articles and submit them to Ezine Articles. You will have to learn a bit of code to create your signature links within the “authors bio section.” This is a great way to increase visitors and get strong links pointing to your site.

There are thousands of places on the Internet where you can create free blogs, forums, videos and articles that will revolve around your niche and websites main pages. It is time consuming  but necessary to do these types of things if you want to leverage many of the free ways that you can drive traffic to your website and also push your site upward in the search engine results pages. A community of related sites will greatly benefit your site in the long run. So with that being said, go generate some buz around your niche.

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SEO, Patients, Homestead, What do they have in common?

January 24, 2009

If your just starting out, you may not be familiar with the term SEO. Many Homestead users are new to the website building world. The abbreviation stands for search engine optimization. This is the process of arranging various elements on and off your web site pages so that Google, Yahoo and MSN like your site enough to place you on the first couple of results pages.

Your probably wondering why I have included the term “Patients” in the title along with “SEO” and “Homestead,” let me explain what these terms have in common. Once you learn how to arrange these various elements that I am talking about and implement them on your pages, you have to be patient with Google and the other search engines. Getting free traffic to increase to your site is largely dependent upon what Google does with all of the things that are related to your pages. I am speaking as the voice of experience because I have literally seen my website traffic many times increase by 30% because Google changed something in their system as I continually optimized my pages over time.

Here’s how it works with SEO, Homestead Website building and patients.

Learn search engine optimization for the site builder by purchasing the SEO Extreme Video series. It teaches you how to arrange things on and off of your web site pages so that Google will like you enough to give you better placements.

Now be patient, the results do not always appear instantly. First Google has to spider your website. Until they do this, you will not appear in the search engine results pages. As you continue, over the course of several months, to implement the various techniques that you learned in the video series, you will begin to notice changes as you study your statistics. Then, suddenly one day the statistics will show a dramatic increase in traffic to your pages. Just this past month one of my websites went from having thirty visitors a day to ninety per day. I also had  traffic increase from having sixty visitors a day to over a hundred a day on one single  page.

  • Tip: Increase in traffic build over time as you continue to make adjustments, add and tweak things that are related you your site.

So, if you’re a SiteBuilder beginner, learn SEO, implement the techniques and then just be patient through your continued optimization efforts. If you don’t start out with a huge bang in the search engine results eventually things will get better, just be patient.

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Check Your Websites Look In Different Browsers

January 17, 2009

Did you know that your Homesteasd website pages look different in various browers and operating systems?

I recently received an email from someone who visited one of my many sites. They were informing me that some advertisements were covering the content on one of my pages.

Here’s an easy way to check your Homestead website look in different browsers and operating system views. The site link is called  Browser Shots and the good news is that it is free to use.  It will limit the amount of views that you are allowed in a twenty four hour period unless you create an account. It will only cost you an email address entry to do this.

How the system Works

The freeware allows you to view many screen shots by just adding your websites URL of the page you would like to study. By defaut there are about 50 selections for Windows, Linux and Mac systems. By choosing check boxes it is possible to customize your views. A few of the standard browsers in the default include Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome, Flock, Sea Monkey, Navigator and many others.

How easy is it to look at multiple browser views?

Enter your URl and select “submit.” Choose the “reload this page” option, repeatedly,  over a particular length of time and new browser views will appear as the system gathers the information.  Statistics will be displayed as to how many of the selected shots are completed and how many are in process. As you refresh the page more screen shots will be available for you to study.

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How Long Does It take To Learn Website Optimization

January 7, 2009

jordy-1It doesn’t really take long to learn the basics of website optimization. However, it may take a considerable amount of time to rank high for keywords in your niche. The art of optimization is an ongoing learning experience because the search engines are constantly changing the combination of  elements that cause pages to rank high.  Depending upon how much competition there is in a particular niche, you may or may not rank high for certain keywords or phrases right away. You can usually tell, rather  quickly,  if there is a ton of competition in the niche you are considering to launch into on the Internet.  By doing a Google search,  using some popular phrases in your niche, you can get a good idea of how many websites you will be competing with.  If there are a lot of websites with your keywords in the main domain name,  chances are good that you will get lost in a huge sea of pages on the Internet.

SEO Homestead Website

Although learning the methods behind website optimization do not take long to grasp,  the top SEO companies recommend that any pages that you are trying to rank well for should be published no less than six months in advance.  As an example, if your focusing on  a keyword phrase related to Christmas,  you should plan on publishing your page in May or June.  You will then have to focus on that page and its keyword phrases for the next six months by doing things that will gradually push it upwards in the search engine results pages.

Getting high rankings is a process that may take time depending on the level of competition.  Learning the basic  techniques related to optimizing a website does not take a long time. However, the process of optimization does require time.

IF there’s little or no competition in your niche then your chances are good at ranking in the top ten. If there are several websites focusing on related keywords then it will take time to get top placements.

To learn website Optimization for a Homestead website the SEO Extreme video series was recorded inside of the SiteBuilder program. The series gives step by step methods that will help you get better ranking with search engine placement.

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SEO and Homestead Website Design

January 7, 2009

If you build it they will come, not true. Your website must be built properly.

So what do SEO and Homestead website design have in common? If your a beginner at using the SiteBuilder program,  from the Intuit company,  you need to understand something, you must study SEO or search engine optimization.

  • Tip: Study how to optimize your website before you build it.

Don’t just study any information about the subject of search engine Optimization. Get the SEO Extreme Video Series designed for Homestead Users.

I know it’s thrilling to be creative and build a website with the awesome tools that Homestead has in the SiteBuilder but,  without studying how to do things properly,  your site will fail. It does not matter how wonderful your design looks, your site will not have free traffic without you implementing proper website optimization techniques.

Yes, I said fail! I speak   as one of many voices of wisdom who will tell you that if you do not do certain things correctly,  your website pages will only be seen by a few visitors.

So, what does SEO have to do with your website design? How about everything.

  • Tip: Proper optimization of your websites pages actually begins with how you save your file names and includes the way your titles, meta descriptions, keywords, links and content complement one another.

You cannot just pick a template and add some content to your pages and get traffic. Don’t be deceived.

It is going to be necessary for you to learn exactly what the search engines like and what they don’t.  Search engines will be responsible for sending loads of traffic your way. If they don’t like the way you have arranged things on the Internet, they will pass you by.

This is what I am going to suggest, the SEO Extreme Video Series was recorded inside the the SiteBuilder program and will give you step by step demonstrations of how all of your pages should be constructed in order for the search engines to like what your doing.

I’ve consulted with many Homestead website users about how they need to construct their site in relation to good SEO practices. Please save yourself  a lot of headaches by learning how to optimize your website before you build it.

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Training Videos Homestead Website Tutorials

January 5, 2009

We have assembled the best place for viewing free training videos for Homestead website owners. These tutorials are totally free to view.

SiteBuilder: Free Videos Homestead Website

  • Designing banners and HTML codes
  • Creating a news letter or mailing list
  • How to add an rss feed
  • Header tags h1,h2,h3
  • Putting a Youtube video on a page
  • Creating a XML sitmap
  • Adsense codes
  • Getting free traffic

There is also an excellent training set for learning how to optimize your site. Check out SEO Homestead Website to get the SEO extreme video series.

For Beginners

Here is a new set of tutorials called the Homestead Website Sitebuilder Beginner Videos

Learning how to work inside the Sitebuilder is easy once you view the proper training tutorials. There are also a pile of clips on Youtube from the Homestead Expert teaching even more great techniques to use inside of the site builder program. One of the videos even teaches  how to add Kontera to a Homestead website.

By far though the most beneficial set is going to be the clips about optimizing a Homestead website. The reason being is  that once you get to the top of the search engines,  you will have loads of traffic.  These training videos  are the only set of tutorials of their kind online. Recorded inside of the Sitebuilder they give you step by step information about how to arrange your website pages.

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Homestead Website Real Tracker or Google Analytics

December 2, 2008

If your website account allows for you to keep track of your visitors,  I highly recommend that you keep an eye on your Homestead website statistics. The program may be accessed through your main account. Click on the “My Account” tab on the left side of the page. Then select the website that you want to review. In the center of the page below your domain name selection,  click on “view website statistics.” This will bring up a page called “Real Tracker.” You can also use Google Analytics if you don’t have the option available with your account. By studying traffic  results,  you can work at making things more appealing to visitors and search engines.

In the Real Tracker statistics,  you can see where your visitors came from and what keywords brought them to your site. By reviewing the activity, you can then make certain adjustments to help with getting better search engine  placements. This is all apart of what is called optimization (SEO Homestead Website). The program has many different options  and is extremely accurate in yielding statistics about all of the pages within your website.

There is another tool out there that is called Google Analytics. It will compile a large amount of data as well that can be reviewed every other day. In order to get the statistics program to function with your website,  you will have to configure a few things by following Google’s easy instructions. It’s really a great tool to use because this analyzer provides information that the Real Tracker doesn’t.  You can actually see how many different countries have visited your site and view the phrases that brought them there. There also is a pie shaped diagram that will educate you as to weather or not your visitors found your site by way of referring sites, search engines or direct traffic.

The main difference between both of these programs is that the Real Tracker statistics are updated instantly,  where in comparison to Google Analytics, the stats are uploaded every twenty four hours. Both of them work wonderful but I feel as though the real tracker is more specific about keyword phrases than Google’s program.

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What’s Wrong With Your Homestead Website?

November 13, 2008

 As I have been studying SEO for Homestead websites for two years, I have discovered several things that can led to not getting good results with the search engines. There are about ten things that you may be doing wrong with your Homestead website. Let me just say this right up front, don’t get discouraged because I can help. I have studied website optimization and applied principles to my websites pages that have caused me to soar to the top of the search engines results pages. Any thing that may be wrong now can be corrected with some effort. Hopefully you don’t have thousands of pages that need attention.

What types of things hinder Homestead website pages from being at the top? Here are ten of the most common problem areas that effect weather you win or loose at SEO.

  1. Are you using the “Apply To All” feature in the “Properties Editor?”

  2. Do your URLs, internal links, internal navigation, external links, on page text, titles, meta descriptions, and keyword phrases all blend well?

  3. Have you added “Header Tags?”

  4. Have you created quality links to your site?

  5. Are you using the built-in navigation feature in the site builder?

  6. Have you studied about keywords?

  7. Do you have an xml-sitemap?

  8. Have you uploaded your sitemap to Google?

  9. Do you have sufficient content on your pages?

  10. Do you understand the importance of page rank as it relates to links?

  11. One Answer To The Above Problems: SEO Extreme Video Series

There are several other factors that can effect your rankings. All of the things that you may be doing wrong can be corrected. Inside of the SEO Extreme Video Series, I show you how to work within the problem areas that I just described. I know my techniques work because I get top results from Google, Yahoo and MSN. You will too if you take the time to study the materials that I am offering at a low cost introductory price.

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