looking for host and website software or web builder

[alwayslearning1]

Ideally here is what I am looking for in a site.

1. Easy use
2. No required html but the opportunity to past or white it in.
3. Somewhere to put in meta tags and description
4. Templates for the sited build in that I choose from
5. Easy linking from page to page
6. Easy linking our to other sites that any affiliate address such as httpsitesellcrp.com as product code could be masked by words
7. Traffic monitoring
8. Any other SEO tools that might be available that will help in drawing traffic or attracting SE’s
9. Low price
10. Easy RSS feeds to have other syndicated articles from authors and writters

[WebSavvy]

Here's a few things I found just now to help you, Cliff. :)
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Free HTML Training Course (http://www.e-learningcenter.com/free_html_course.htm)

EasyCMS (http://onlinetools.org/ecms3/) - EasyCMS is a tool to help you or your clients create and maintain a web site. All you need to start your web site is an HTML template and a sitemap. Once these are defined you can edit, save and generate pages directly on the server without any need to FTP.

EchoEcho's Introduction to CSS (http://www.echoecho.com/cssintroduction.htm) (plus they have other free tutorials there too)

NetIdNow's Site2You (http://www.netidnow.com/create-web-site.html) - web building software, templates, can be hosted anywhere.[/list=1]

[Comeran]

I don't know of any solutions that fit what you are looking for.

If you go the way that Savvy suggests you will have a lot to learn, but will do much better in the future.

Best of all you can be all of those tools that you are looking for :p Nothing beats being an experienced web developer. Except maybe having a real job, or super powers, or being stronger than your girlfriend......

Comeran-

[alwayslearning1]

That last post was really funny

[Comeran]

Does that mean that you are laughing at me?!?!?!

:p

I think your best bet is a standard hosting package, where you can practice and learn while you build your site.

A new site takes 1 year in a sandbox anyway, so you will have lots of time to work on the site and make it great.

Remember we are all here to help ;)

I would suggest a smaller host though, so they can help walk you through things and are more willing to accomidate your site on their servers with special privilages and script access.

Comeran-

[alwayslearning1]

I am considering getting dreamweaver. It meets my requirements and has rss feed syndication system build it. However it is to expensive right now because I have some expensive car problems to take care of so it is likely I will wait. Although I want something that does not require coding, I do want that option because I have had to past coding in to my current site and I am not sure if dreamweaver has that feature. I may be able to find it on ebay for a lower price but buying things from ebay has not always been a positive experience for me.

The main reason for all this change is to get rss feeds. Before I move on spending money I want to know if rss feeds really do provide good traffic and help with ranking as well as provide good content for my sites visitors or am I just as well off writing a few keyword driven articles that would go on my site and be submitted to articles directories hoping to get link backs to build traffic and help with link popularity,

[Connie]

The main reason for all this change is to get rss feeds.
Why are you so obsessed with RSS feeds?

The only way they would be of value to your visitors is if the feed provided additional information about the products you offer on your site. Since you are an affiliate I doubt that you are going to find that kind of feed.

Additionally even if you did then 1000s of other affiliates are probably going to be running the same feed. Duplicate content.

The only value of an RSS feed as far as I can determine is to the site providing it, because it will link back to their site from what I understand.

Your site will be better served by writing unique content for each product and then linking directly to the main site with your affiliate code as the link.

Frankly you have a lot of basic stuff to learn before you should be thinking about feeds.

[WebSavvy]

He'd have to learn HTML first before he would even be able to do RSS (XML) feeds.

Using RSS feeds requires it to be in XML format or you can use PHP to pull dynamic RSS from an MySQL DB ... but even then, you have to know what you're doing first, in order for it to work.

[alwayslearning1]

can see were you could easily think I am obsessing over rss however just like when I was posting lots of question on keywords, links and other subjects, it is just that my focus at that time was on those topics and my attention to my site had to do with those topics. There is no doubt that there are many facets to managing and building a site and while my focus may be on one of them I am working on others. I just don’t have questions about them.

[Comeran]

Hi Cliff,

Dreamweaver works, and you can do it, but the truth of the matter is that even then you don't always have clean code (yes you do have access to edit the code in the program) but really all of these tools aren't important.

In another thread I told you about how to learn HTML and I can tell you it is easier than you are thinking, in addition it will be MUCH cheaper. I think the book I linked you started at 2 bucks used!

As for RSS feeds, they will only help your site if they have content that users will want to keep up to date on. If you want to use it to advertise that you have a new product coming out every once in a while I think you would be better off with an opt in mail list.

Long term I think that you should have opt in mail lists, tell a friend options, rss feeds, news articles, industry information, buyers articles etc. The more you add to your site (quality adds) the better off you will do with visitors and search engines.

The best thing you can do is ensure that your site will always have a 24 hour webmaster on call. The best one that I can suggest would be YOU :p It is easy and quick to learn, it only takes time and patience. Plus there are many forums for HTML and programming users, and chat channels as well.

Great luck, I hope that this all turns out great for you.

Comeran-

[Connie]

can see were you could easily think I am obsessing over rss however just like when I was posting lots of question on keywords, links and other subjects, it is just that my focus at that time was on those topics and my attention to my site had to do with those topics.
Sorry but you need to learn one thing at a time. You have posted more questions than anyone poster as far as I can remember. The problem is you do not understand the answers. Then you post another question.

Cliff settle down. I know you have read and keep reading a lot of crap.

Bottom line is there are no shortcuts.

You keep looking for shortcuts to success. There are no shortcuts to success.

I have told you time and time again. You have to have a site with unique content.

Publishing someone else's articles or RSS feed is not going to give you Unique content.

At this point you need to forget about everything except how to have a unique site. Offering Free tools does not make your site unique. Especially when those tools are worthless.

Sorry but I don't think any of us can help you. You ignore (or don't understand) the advice we give.

You keep looking for shortcuts that are not the answer to your problems.

Frankly you are a pain in the but. I don't know how Deb put up with you as long as she did.

[alwayslearning1]

never intended my site to be only a sales site for products which is why it has articles on it now so rss feeds would not be for advertising products. I agree that using them for advertising purposes is not going to b effective. I really want to be the go to place on the net for my site theme which is web sites and web site promotion tools. I was hoping that this would help keep my site from looking so sales oriented and the added rss content relating to my theme would draw visitors and they would stay and enjoy it.

Currently these articles are not very strong in regard to keywords and not written by me but that will be changing gradually.

[Connie]

I really want to be the go to place on the net for my site theme
What is your site theme?

When I look at your home page (which I have done several times) it is nothing but an add for "Ken Envoy" site sell products.

What else are you offering that I cant see from your home page?

Cliff believe me. You are traveling a path that will not result in what you want.

I'm sorry to be so frank, but you do not have the skills to be successful as an affiliate.

[alwayslearning1]

First of all what are the skills I need to develop to be successful as an affiliate?

Next there are a bunch of articles on my navigational bar that are articles. Some are written by other people so they have links to there sites. I was planning on getting some help writing some articles with someone else’s help that are keyword drive and putting them on my site.

As far as the products go what is wrong with Kens’ products? They are as good or better than most of the competition and I believe in them.

Finaly there are other products on my site below Ken’s.

I appreciate you honesty but I don’t know what else to do besides what I am doing. I did a bunch of research on a number of directions and have had some other sites like radio career consultants where I used my skills and experience as a radio station personality and program director to provide various services for jocks but most people are being forced out of radio because of music and commercials being on hard disc making it possible for a jock to scroll though the day on the monitor and just insert the breaks. This means you can do a 4-hour show in 30 minutes. As a result one jock can do 5 to 10 air shifts and sent them via data packs to stations all over the nation reducing jobs. Another thing one owner can own an unlimited number of stations. It is likely that in a medium market 2 companies own all the stations. This cuts jobs also.

I had s romantic gifts site selling personalized CD’s s. The customer submits a message to the love of the life and a song that emphasis it. I found the songs and recorded the message and put it all on a cd and sent it to the customer. This proved to be extremely competitive and although the idea came from when I did this for a woman, I really do not have a passion for this kind of thing and it seems like you have to have a passion for what you are selling.

My research though keyword supply and demand system I used showed that my best keyword was web business tools so I moved in this direction. I did check on romantic gifts and radio but romantic gifts was way to competitive and radio only turned up radio schools. Most radio schools to day use an apprentice system where you tell them were you live and they hire a program director to teach you. I really can’t compete with that.

This brings me back to what I am dong. I was planning on making all the articles written by me with strong keyword rich content, putting them on my site and submitting them to article directories with link backs to my site and using rss feeds for the purposes I described in my last post. I am also biding on yahoo search marketing with little success. However my daily budget is extremely low so that may be the problem. Once all these things have had time work or fail I was planning on finding something else to sell if I was not making any money by then.

Again I want you to give me a rundown of skill you say I need to succeed at what I am doing.

[Comeran]

Cliff,

Ok, lets do a quick run down.

1) You need to remove all articles by other people. Just take them down today your site is better off with only 1 page than it is with 20 pages of duplicate content.

2) Affiliate programs are everywhere, go out there and find 5 similar products or services that 1 person needs that all compliment eachother.

3) Take all of the information of each affiliate and write your own article on the product. Make the person want to purchase that product from the great information you have in that article. Link to the affiliate program from there.

4) Post at least 1 article a day for the next month. When you have 30 articles and products on the site come back and ask for a site review. We will go through it and tell you what you need to do to.

After that you will spend most of your time adding to the articles, making them better, adding new ones, finding better products for the visitors...... etc... it is a never ending process of updating and working to make your site bigger and better.

When you have had all of this complete for a few months and have a firm understanding of website design we will go into some scripts that can help you with your website traffic. Affiliate programs, advertising swaps, tell a friend scripts, PR sites, magazine outlets, news outlets etc.

It is a long road but you are in the right spot now (asking for help and being willing to do what is needed).

Good luck and we hope to see you do well soon.

Comeran-

[alwayslearning1]

I like your plan and am setting out to impairment it but first I have something else to bring up. As you may have seen on best practice I have wanted to ad rss feeds to my site. Adding them though coding would take a long time because I don’t know any so while I am working on that I found some sites were I could get rss feds copying and pasting code. This is primarily so I can get relevant rss feeds other people have provided on my site quickly. In the long run it will be done differently and I will have my own feeds. I would appreciate it if you would look at the what is new page on my navigational bar on my site which is in my profile and tell me if these are rss feeds and if they art the kind people will like and if they will increase my traffic. I have little confidence in this effort so I need some conformation or a new direction. I found this material by doing a search with the works websites with rss feeds for my website.

AS has been recommend I am working on providing my own articles that will be on my site but am considering making them rss feeds. Here a couple of sties that may have the tools to do this with. Please take a minute and see if they are good.


http://www.myrsscreator.com/join-my-rss-creator.htmlhttp://www.feedcraft.com/default.aspx?gclid=CJG6_Y_4hIUCFRi5SgodHBDBGg

http://www.kapowtech.com/solutions_datacollection.htm?google&keyword=rss

[Comeran]

Cliff,

Glad to hear that you like my ideas :p

Here is the thing. RSS feeds could be a good thing, but right now they should be so far from your thoughts that you shouldn't bring them up.. on my list they would fit in number 4 or 5....

RSS feeds will apply when you find a way of supplying needed information weekly. Weekly is a MINUMUM and daily would be MUCH more effective.

Work on the list I gave you, and trust me RSS, forums, blogs, and other uselfull items will be suggested when you are at that point. Also when you are there these things will be so easy that you won't need to have a service, you will use a very simple script to get them done... most of the time for free.

Glad to see you on the right track, keep us informed. If you need me you can always reply here or PM me.

Talk to you soon.

Comeran-