With so many people now working from home, you may be thinking that you want or need a website for your business. Building a website can be complicated if you have never done it before or if you have no coding experience. If you need to know how to build a website with no stress, keep on reading.

Where Can I Buy a Domain Name?

There are many sites where you can purchase a domain name for your website, as well as getting website creation and hosting services. If you are able to buy one through the same company you purchase your hosting services through, you often get a free domain name for at least a year. Hosting companies such as Bluehost, Wix, GoDaddy, etc. all can help you purchase and set up a website. If you just want to park a domain name to use at a later time, you can buy one through sites such as NameCheap or Hover.

What is the Easiest Way to Create a Website?

Companies that offer Drag and Drop website creations make building a website easy. Weebly, a free website builder, offers simple instructions to create and launch a website in just one day. While there are add-on services that you can purchase, such as a shopping cart, you can get a basic website established. When you think about what you want or will need as you expand your web presence, you can choose additional features.

If you know what you want, you can use a hosting company like Bluehost to launch your Weebly site with the add-ons included in one annual fee. The choice is up to you.

Should I Hire a Webmaster and Designer?
If you need a website but do not have time to do it yourself, you can hire a web designer who can do the dirty work. You would need to provide them with an idea of what you want your website to accomplish for you, photos, and descriptions of the services you offer. From there, they will create a ready to use the website for you in a couple of weeks.

A Webmaster is someone who manages your website and makes changes for you as needed. While a webmaster may take a few days to make changes, as they may have multiple accounts to manage, it is an option if you do not want to deal with the stress of maintaining a website.

What is SEO and Why Do I Need to Have it?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and is what helps your website rankings on popular search engines. While sites like Goo­gle often change their algorithms on how they rank sites, there are certain items that you will want your website to have in order to increase your chances of making the first page in Google. Statistically, if your site ranks on the third page or further, the likelihood that someone will find your website decreases dramatically. SEO helps you get better rankings.

Some things that you should keep in mind to add SEO to your website are:

  • Use popular keywords on each page of your website content that people are searching for
  • Add at least one image to each page
  • Add links to popular non-competitor sites
  • Add backlinks to other pages on your website

How Can I Monetize My Website?

Having a website can help you to sell items on your page, but you can also make money just by having a website. There are many ways that you can monetize your website so that when visitors click through your site to another site, you can make money. Look for affiliate links on popular websites, such as Amazon or Google AdSense.

If your site has a blog or you post recommended items, it is a good idea to become an affiliate with the company that sells the products. This way, when someone purchases the item by clicking on the link from your site, you make a percentage of the sale. Some affiliates offer a percentage of the sales, and others provide a flat fee to their affiliate partners. If you really want to get into the affiliate links game, you can sign up with sites such as cj.com. This site offers website owners access to hundreds of affiliate companies and helps you to connect with them through one portal.

While this will take time and effort, if you want a secondary source of income, monetizing your site with affiliate links is a great way to do it.

What Other Techniques Can I Use to Help Make Building a Website Easy?

If you know what you want your site to look like and have on it, that is a great first step. Be sure to have a plan and do your homework so that you can find a hosting company that is easy to work with to create a site.  Many hosting companies offer customer service, either for free or for a fee; utilize it if you get stuck or run into a technical issue.

In addition, set aside time in your calendar to work on your website. If you just work on it when you have an opening in your schedule, it may take a long time to get your site up and running. Planning out a schedule with time slots for website design is the best way to ensure that your site will be up and running in an ideal amount of time.

If you truly do not have time to make a site but need one, consider hiring a web designer to make one for you. Keep in mind that you are not only paying for the site to be built, but for their time and experience as well, so this can be expensive, but helpful. At the end of the day, it may be the least stressful way to build a website for your business.

Building a website with no stress is possible. If you want to do it yourself, many hosting companies offer you access to Drag and Drop technology. WordPress is another site that you can use to make a simple or complex site. You can use coding or Drag and Drop themes. There are also plug-ins, which are essentially added features, to make your website stand out from the competition. Read here for more information about stress-reducing tactics during remote work.