Do you need a fast cheap website? Do you want to start your own blog with your own domain name? Do you need a quick website for a business project or to establish an online presence for yourself, or your small business or organization?
We can get you online, in 1 to 3 days, with a state of the art website, for a quick and easy $100 Paypal payment.
The $100 package includes:
1 year of hosting - we make sure your site is on the internet within 3 days, for one year.
Installation of either Wordpress or Drupal as a website management system.
Installation of a large toolset of customized editors, plugins, and modules.
1 year of updates to the website management system, to maintain it's security.
Installation of up to 5 themes, or web designs, from the open theme libraries.
Basic instructions and assistance in operating your new website.
Operating and managing a website can be a dauting task for a small organization or business. A full-time webmaster is expensive, and often a smaller website has modest needs as far as daily operations goes. But when that website has problems, or needs to be updated, or moved, or have content added, having a skilled webmaster you can call on for hourly labor can be a lifesaver that can save you tremendous embarrasment, and also save you a lot of money.
We can help you operate and manage your website, and we can be your agent in dealings with hosting companys, ISPs, registrars, designers, and other net professionals, all of whom want your money, and all of whom speak the incomprehensible technical language of the internet.
What is the "long tail"? (link goes to the wikipedia entry, which is an okay place to start)
Well, for about the past 5 years, more and more people with pages looking for search engine traffic have been pushed out of the serps (Search Engine Results Page - thats the page of listings you see when you search for something at a search engine like google) for the best keywords. Google's policies have created a group of winning sites and a much larger droup of losing sites, and the losing sites in the competition had to give up trying for the best keywords and instead try to get the less common keywords in the "long tail".
The past 2 years tho even the longtail is becoming less and less important, and here's an interesting infographic that starts to explain why.
"Over the years Google has moved to consolidate search volume against fewer keywords (which are easier to match ads against) and they have inserted their own vertical listings in their search results. The result is that the longtail has become far less profitable for many publishers." Click this graphic to go to the original page and view full size.
Let me tell you a secret. While it may look daunting from the outside, and it does involve a fair amount of highly technical language and finicky details, setting up a website is fairly easy. Once you understand it, and know the language, and understand the landscape of hosting providers and mysql databases and mail servers, a website can be made operational in a short time.
The hard part is filling the website with good, interesting, and, if you want to make sales or gain members, persuasive writing. The real work of any website is the web copy, the writing which fills the pages of the website, and to a lesser degree the photos, images, and graphics that accompany the writing. Together the writing and the photographs and graphics make up the "web content" of your website, and you will discover (or already know) that creating web content is a ton of work.
To make web content copywriting even more difficult, everything you do has to have two types of visitors in mind. Your writing has to appeal to the real people who visit your site, but it also has to be written with the search engines in mind. Without the search engines, your website can't be found, and you won't get the readers or customers that you want. But if you write ONLY for the search engines, your human visitors will be irritated and confused and ignore your message. So you will need to strike a balance between writing for the blind logic of the search engines, and the natural and lively writing that humans enjoy.
In general, you and your organization or business will want to create your own web content, and write your own web copy for your pages. You know your topic the best, you have the passion and drive for your subject or your business that will make your website interesting and fun and memorable. It's your website, you own it, and writing the text for your website is your responsibility.
But, sometimes you just don't have the time to write, and to crop, resize, and prepare photos for the specific needs of the web.
We can help. We can write the copy for your website, and take raw photos and resize and adjust them to fit specific places or purposes in your website.
We can also create customized graphics, logos, cartoons, animations, and animated buttons, banners, and arrows for your website to give it more eye appeal and to encourage your visitors to buy your product or join your organization.
Our basic rate for web copywriting is ten cents a word, which means you will get a thousand words of search engine optimized text custom written for your needs for $100. Our basic rate for photo and graphic preperation and creation is the same as our rate for operations, $25 an hour prepaid, $32 an hour by 30 day invoice. Contact us to discuss your specific and customized copy needs.
For either of these services, we require that you start a web services account with us, which mean making a basic $100 prepayment to us by paypal. If you already have an account opened with us, for instance for website operations or for a $100 website, contact us, and we can discuss the cheapest way to get you the web content and web copy that you want.
