The best way to start a home based business is to learn how to build a website and make money from it. Contrary to popular belief you can build a very successful website with no technical skills. The easiest type of website to build is an informational website. An informational website is a one that provides high quality information for free. It makes money through affiliate link and advertisements. These are best because they maintain themselves. There is no overhead, you dont have deal with inventory, and you still make alot of money.

The first step in building a website is registering a domain name. A domain name is simply the web address you type into the address bar. For example, www.hubpages.com is a domain name. There are plenty of sites on the internet to register domain names. The most popular is www.godaddy.com. Domain names range from $5.99 to $11.99 per year. At godaddy they are $9.99 per year. You also have to protect your domain name. This will cost you $25. So all in all you have to pay around $35.00 for a domain and protect it.

You need to start thinking about how you can build your website after you purchase a domain name but before you do that you need to find a web host. A web host is a company that provides storage space on a server. Each time you build a webpage it has to be added to a server. When someone visits a website that page has to be uploaded by a server. A web host provides space on a server.

There are two ways to build a website. You can used a website builder or program html. Website builders are ideal for people who are not tech savvy. If you know HTML ( hyper text markup language ) you can use a advanced program such as dreamweaver. In my opinion learning html programming is a waste when you can use a site builder.

Free website builders are commonly included when you purchase a domain name or sometimes they are included in web hosting packages. Free website builders are not intended for commercial purposes. When i say commerical purposes I mean to make money off of the website you are building. You normally have restrictions on how many pages you can build since it cost the host money to store pages on a server.

Business website builders are intended for commercial purposes. They are designed to help you build a website, then make money from it. When you purchase a business website builder you generally get unlimited storage space. This means you can create however many pages you want. You can have a website with 10 pages or 1000 pages. They give you tools to help you succeed. They help you with many aspects of making money on the internet. Marketing your site, creating quality content, and selling products just to name a few.

1&1 Website builder

The 1&1 website builder is a popular website builder that is often included in a domain name purchase. It is free but you can only build a 5 page website. I would not recommend this website builder to anyone who is looking to make any money from a website. This type of site builder is only good for building small non-commercial websites. Alot of people buy simple free website builders like this one just to connect to relatives far away. They are great for posting pictures and stories. A rule of thumb with website builders is you get what you pay for.

Site2You

The Site2You is a very unique free website builder. You can get an unlimited amount of pages for a one time fee. If you dont purchase the unlimited pages plan then you are limited on how many pages your website can be. They have alot of templates to choose from. Overall its not a better choice than the 1&1 builder.

Site Studio

Site Studio is probaly the best free website builder. 1&1 is the most common, but as far as quality goes Site Studio is better. It is very simple to use. There are over 1000 website templates included. In addition to alot of templates you can customize the color scheme of each template. It is also very easy to upload images.

Just remember that free website builders are not intended build websites that make money. They are designed for very small and simple websites. There are alot of restrictions. I simply dont recommend them because there is no earning potential.

Content

Developing good content is essential. Identify a topic that you know and love. Then you will be able to create quality content that visitors will enjoy reading and you will enjoy writing. Visitors are sure to return if they like reading what you write.

Traffic

Traffic is the lifeblood of your internet business. Without visitors your site is just sitting there. It might as well be non-existant. 85% of your visitors will find you via major search engines through keywords they type in. If you dont rank highly in google, yahoo, msn, and live, then you wont get many visitors. Ill go over how to rank highly later. For now just remember keywords=traffic

PreSell

Preselling your visitors is crucial to making money off of your website. Preselling customers means building a relationship with them, preselling them on you. Off the internet, you are presold all the time. You are presold by your barber who creates a relationship with you that keeps you coming back. You are presold by your real-estate agent. This simply means building a trusting relationship. If you provide good high quality information, then you build trust between you and your visitors.

Monetize

After you presell your visitors they will be willing to buy. Then it is time to monetize. Monetizing your website simply means integrating ways of generating income. This sounds like the hardest part, but it is by far the simplest. There are so many ways for a theme based content website to monetize. Ill also go into more detail about this later.

The C-T-P-M process is the formula for success with theme based content websites. It is not just a theory, it has actually been proven. Now that you know what the C-T-P-M process and what direction you are going in, it is time to start thinking about a domain name.

Website Wizard

Website Wizard is a great website builder designed to build websites that make money. It comes in an all-in-one package. You pay a one time fee. Your domain name registration is included along with web hosting, website security protection, the website builder, tools, and so on.

Visual Site Builder

Creating web pages with the visual site builder is just like creating documents with microsoft word. You have thousands of customization options. You can easily insert italics, bold print, different types of font, different font sizes, images, tables, links, and different colors.

Logo Creator

You can use logo creator to create your own logo. This will give you your own trademark. Visitors will remember you better and are more likely to come back.

Site Templates

There are hundreds of site templates to choose from. The site templates are very professional looking.

Form Creator

Form creator helps you create any kind of form you want. Site owner commonly add feedback forms to their site to see what visitors would like to see added and what they dont like. These are also good for answering visitor questions.

Search Engine Submission

Website wizard has a feature that submits your website to the major search engines. There is also a feature that tells you how you rank in the major search engines directly after you finish.

Sitemap Wizard

Sitemap Wizard is a tool that is used to easily create a site map. Creating a sitemap helps visitors navigate throught your site more easily finding exactly what they are looking for. Having a sitemap also helps you rank higher in search engines.

Link Exchange Tool

If you are having trouble attracting visitors to your site you can use the link exchange tool. You submit your link and then someone will put it on their website in exchange for you putting their link on your site.

Opt-in Builder

The opt-in builder collects and stores the email addresses of each visitor that submits their email address when they visit your website. Once you have a decent sized opt-in list you can start marketing your website by sending out a newletter or an e-course via email to a large number of interesting visitors.

Pop-up Wizard

If you are interested in adding a pop up your site then you can use pop up wizard to create it. You can even pick and choose which pages the pop up appears.

Survey Wizard

If you are interested in creating a survey for your visitors to fill out you can easily create one in a matter of minutes with survey wizard. The form builder is really good at recieving feedback, but surveys allow you to figure out exactly what you want to know.

Autoresponder

An autoresponder is one of the best tools you can use in building a relationship with your visitors. Autoresponders are most commonly used to offer a free e-course via email. Here is how it works: you create a e-course, and when a visitor subscribes to the e-course the auto responder automatically sends them an email. For example, if you had a e-course that was comprised of 7 segments you could program the autoresponder to send them the first segment as soon as they sign up, then each additional segment exactly 24 hours later.

Two-tier Affiliate Program

This is the most advanced website wizard tool. With your own affiliate program you can get other people to sell your products for you. You dont do any work to sell the items. You just have to give the people selling your products for you a small commision. Their commissions will be tracked online. You just have to write the commision checks and mail them out.

Shopping Cart

This allows you to sell an unlimited amount of products. You can sell everything from hard goods to digital products hassle free. It tracks everything for you.

Payment Processor

The payment processer handles transactions from the customer to you. You get instant access to your very own payment processor.

Tracker Wizard

If you want to start an ad campaign you can use tracker wizard. Tracker wizard tracks whether your ad campaign is making money or losing money by tracking how much you spend on advertising and how much money that advertising brings in. If you are running multiple advertisements it helps you decide which ones to keep and get rid of.

Private Forums

The private forums are for website wizard owners only. You get the chance to communicate with fellow website wisard owners who can give you sound advice. This is a great place to recieve tips and build relationships.

Comprehensive User Guide

The comprehensive user guide is 200 pages long. It explains how to use all of website wizards software. You will find alot of tips and techniques that can help you succeed in building a profitable website.

Email and Phone Customer Support

If you are having trouble or stuck on a certain issue you can contact website wizard via email or phone. Website Wizard has a very good support team with the knowledge to help you resolve any problem you have.

Website Wizard offers 3 different packages.

Starter Package = $79.00 per year, this package includes the visual sitebuilder, allows you to build up to 15 pages, and comes with 180 templates

Optimum Package = $259.00 per year, includes everything the starter package inlcludes plus free domain name, search engine ranking tools, and email tools

Ecommerce Package = $397.00 per year, includes everything listed above, shopping cart, credit card processor, ad tracker, and a affiliate program.

SiteBuildIt

Sitebuildit is hands down the best website building tool on the internet. It is a all in one tool that includes the your domain name, web hosting, website security, email, a point and click site builder, and a long list of other things. Sitebuildit's educational resources are second to none. SiteBuildIt's is goal is to help people turn their hobbies/passions into money. SBI comes with more tools than any other business website builder.

Point And Click Site Builder

The point and click site builder lets you build a page with ease. No need to worry about learning html. You simply type in the boxes what you want to be displayed on your website.

Page and Graphic Managers

This feature allows you manage your images like ftp. You can arrange and rearrange your images in folders without changing URLs. Easily organize all of your images.

Automated Blogging

Blogging is very popular nowdays. You can automatically convert your website into blog format with the click of a button. If you dont like it you can switch it back to website form.

Automatic Search Engines Sitemap Creation

SBI automatically creates a search engine sitemap after you finish each page of your website. Each time you add a new page the sitemap is automatically updated for the search engines.

Automatic Search Engine Pinging

Each time you add a page to your website SBI automatically pings it. That means it instantly notifies the major search engines that you added a new page. This way you get your pages ranked faster.

Automatic Search Engine Tracking

SBI trackes each time a search engine spider crawls your website. A search engine spider is the tool that search engines use to rank your pages. It notifies you if a page has been dropped from the directory and what to do to get that page indexed again.

Automatic Search Engine Ranking

SBI tells you where each page ranks at each search engine. It then tells you what to do to get your page to rank higher.

Analyze It

Analyze it process each web pages before you build it. It tells you how to word the page in order to achieve high rankings in the major search engines. This is one of SBI's most advanced tools.

Traffic Stats and Click Analysis

SBI reports how many daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly visitors your website gets. SBI not only tells you how many visitors, but how many unique visitors.

Electronic Newsletter Publishing

This tool helps you build a relationship with your visitors by sending out your own newsletter. Websites that send out a newletter are more likely to be remembered and get more return visitors.

• Spam Check - SBI's spam check tool makes sure that hotmail, yahoo, google, and other popular email providers dont mistake your newsletter as spam by telling you how to modify it.
• Open Rate - This tool simply tells you how many of your subsribers read your newsletter.

Form Build It / Autoresponder

With these polls you can build surveys, polls, applications, and send e-courses via a series of scheduled emails. This is a powerful tool in building a relationship with visitors.

Link Fix-It

Link Fix-It searches each page of your website making sure that each link works. If the link doesnt work link fix it automatically repairs the link.

Private Monetization Headquarters

The private monetization headquarters identifies every possible way to make money from your website. SBI walks you through step by step on how:

• create and sell an e-book
• sell hard goods
• earn money from an affiliate program
• make money from google adsense
• service businesses
• generate leads for offline business and collect commissions
• become a referrer/finder
• become a high earning network markter
• generate money from google adsense
• become a web professional
• make money from helping people find sales and rental agents
• supplement your existing business or e-business

Those are just a portion of the topics in the private monetization headquarters, naming them all would take way to long.

Infin It

This enables you to plug an infinite amount of third party resources into your website such as subdomains.

The Video Action Guide

The video action guide is a set of videos that guides you through the entire process of building your website from start to finish. The guide is divided into 10 days. This does not mean you have to finish your site in 10 days. That would be nearly impossible. That just happens to be what they labeled each step of building a website. There are 10 steps, so they called it 10 days. Dont think of them as days though. You arent supposed to finished day 1 in a 24 hour day. This eliminates the learning curves of building your first website. This virtually helps you eliminate any mistake you would be making if you did not have the action guide. The action guide eliminates the noise in internet marketing. It gives you a clear step by step process to follow.

Day 1

In day 1 you master all of the important basics. You build the foundation of knowledge needed to succeed. It goes into alot of detail about the proven C-T-P-M process. The action guide explains why the process works.

Day 2

During day 2 you will develop the best site concept. You come up with 3 possible site concepts that you would interested in creating a website on. Then you will type them into brainstorm it. Brainstorm it will collect value demand and real supply. Once it has collected value demand and real supply, it then calculates probability. The site concept that is most profitable is the one you go with.

Day 3

During day 3 you identify profitable topics within the site concept that you have chosen. You finish your site blueprint. When the blueprint is finished you will know what each page of your website is about. Finishing the blueprint is a breeze. You are given a link to download a microsoft excel file. When the file opens you just fill in each box.

Day 4

During day 4 you investigate monetization options. The action guide will go over every possible way to make money from your website and give you instructions on how to go about it. For example, lets say that you were interested in creating and selling an ebook. You would click on the ebook link, then you would be directed to a page with detailed instructions on how to create the ebook and where and how to sell it.

Day 5

Day 5 is one of the easiest and most important. This is the day that you pick your domain name. Once you pick your domain name you enter it into the domain registration box. SBI then registers the domain for you for free. They also get you free web hosting with unlimited space. This gives you the freedom to create add an unlimited amount of pages to your website.

Day 6

The first thing that you will do during day 6 is build your homepage. After you build your homepages you will proceed to build the additional pages. This day will take you alot longer than any other day. After all, you are building an entire site. This will like take you between 2 to 4 weeks to complete depending on how much time you devote to it each day. Remember a day in this case is not referred to as 24 hours, but just as a step. Think of this as step 6.

Day 7

During day 7 you will learn how to build free traffic for your website. The action guide will discuss how you need to set up links in order to get ranked higher in search engines. Additionally, you will learn if you need to do any tweaking and polishing.

Day 8

Day 8 focuses on how to build relationships with your visitors. This is referred to as preselling. You will learn how to create your own newsletter. You will also learn about how to use the autoresponder to automatically send visitors information whenever they submit their email address.

Day 9

Day 9 teaches you how to maximize your profits by knowing your visitors. The action guide teaches you how to analyze traffic stats. It shows you how to maximize profits with click through analysis. After that you will learn about click in analysis. This is alot easier than it sounds.

Day 10

Day 10 is the final day of the action guide. Day 10 guides you through the process of applying for google adsense. Once you get approved, you will learn how to implement it into your site. You will learn how to add a search bar to your site so visitors can search content only on your site. Then you will learn about tips and strategies to maximize your google adsense profits.

Integrated Online Help

Help is integrated into the action guide anytime you need help. You can click on the help links only if you need help. They are there for you only if you are absolutely stuck on something.

The SBI Express E-zine

Certain staff members at SBI are assigned to read 100s of different e-zines each week about making money on the internet. They boil down the best information. After that they email it to every SBI owner.

Private Tips 'n techniques Headquarters

The private tips n techniques headquarters is filled with tips and techniques to help you. It is constantly updated with new and important information. Old and out of date information is deleted for you convience.

Private Resources Headquarters

This headquarters provides you with best of the breed recommendations on third party services saving you time and money. SBI is not paid in anyway for giving these recommendations. They really are the best. They also negotiate price reductions on these products for SBI owners.

Private Forums

These private forums are for SBI owners only. In the forums successful SBI owners help out novices who need help. It gives you a chance to talk to a real person. SBI owners themselves offer some of the best advice.

SiteBuildIt offers alot of free courses to help you succeed. These free ebooks/courses contain everything you would ever need to know to succeed with your home business. Each course is like reading a book. Most of the courses/ebooks are over 150 pages long. SiteBuildIt offers 9 free ebooks/courses. You wont find this information anywhere else on the internet. I learned that the hard way. My three favorite ones are the affiliate masters course, work from home mom masters course, and the internet writing course. I provided the links below if you would like to download them.

Site build it is only available in one package that includes all the tools.

SiteBuildIt All-In-One Package = $300.00 per year

Obviously there are alot of similarites between SBI and Website Wizard. I am going to explain how each one is different, plus my favorite part about each one.

What SiteBuildIt Has That Website Wizard Doesnt

SBI has the video action guide that tells exactly what to do and when to do it. It literally walks you through the whole process telling you what to do and what not to do.

SBI has a suite of tools that that include: Search It, Analyze It, Brainstorm It, Niche Choose It, Automated Blogging, Brainstorm It, Automatic Search Engine Pinging, and Choose It.

SBI has Link Fix-It goes through and makes sure that all of your links work.

SBI delivers stats on how many people read your newsletter. It gives this data in a percentage and a number.

The SBI Express Ezine condenses information from over 100 of the best E-zines about making money on the internet and delivers it to you in one newsletter.

For me the biggest difference between SBI and Website Wizard is the educational resources. SBI's educational resources are second to none.

What Website Wizard Has That SiteBuildIt Doesnt

There is only one thing website wizard has that SBI doesnt. However, it is a really big thing. Website Wizard lets you create your own 2 tier affiliate program. This means that you can have other people market and sell your products for you in return for a small commission. What could be better than a bunch of affiliates building your income for you while you sit back and watch. Its not as easy as it sounds, but if you can create a quality product, you could blow up your bank account.