UPDATE! This guide has been rewritten, edited, and added to and is now available on Amazon Kindle.
Check it out: Catching Up to the Internet
The Ultimate Non-Technical Guide to creating a website.
You won't find HTML lessons or design tutorials here.
Just lessons in what a successful small business website needs, what you should consider when you create a website, and beginning steps to creating traffic and a community.
[Part 1: Benefits of a Small Business Website]({{ site.url }}/small-business-website-guide-why-are-websites-important "why have a small business website")
"Why do I need a website?" Discover the benefits of a website and how it will help you improve business.
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[Part 2: The Secret to Planning a Website]({{ site.url }}/small-business-website-guide-how-to-plan-for-the-best-website "Best small business website")
What you need to include to have a successful small business website that serves a purpose.
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[Part 3: Know What Your Budget Will Get You ]({{ site.url }}/small-business-website-guide-how-much-does-a-website-cost "How Much Does a Website Cost? Making your own website free VS hiring a website designer")
"What is an example web design budget?" Get a review of what a web designer or developer costs.
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[Part 3b: Should You Learn Web Skills?]({{ site.url }}/small-business-website-guide-what-does-web-designer-do "What does a web designer do? Making your own website free VS hiring a website designer")
"Should I hire a web developer?" Some things are easier than you think. Learn what is in your control.
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[Part 4: Create Success For Your Website]({{ site.url }}/small-business-website-guide-successful-website-design "Successful website design for small business as shown in Back to the Future.")
Develop a method to find what makes your site successful, and stick to it. Method provided.
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[Part 5: Small Business Keyword Research]({{ site.url }}/small-business-website-guide-seo-keyword-research-free "Keyword Research: How to get started with small business SEO (for free).")
Learn terms like "SEO", "SEM" and "keywords" - what they are, and how you can use them.
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[Part 6: Writing Great Content That Works]({{ site.url }}/small-business-website-guide-seo-writing-for-the-web "6 Lessons To Powerful Content For The Web and Small Business SEO.")
Learn to merge the keywords into content that speaks appropriately to your customers, as well as aids your SEO.
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[Part 7: Blog as Small Business Marketing]({{ site.url }}/small-business-website-guide-marketing-how-to-use-blog "How to Use a Blog for Small Business Website Marketing")
You should understand how blogging is used in an online marketing strategy.
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[Part 8: Using Social Media in Marketing]({{ site.url }}/small-business-guide-social-media-marketing "How to Use Social Media for Small Business Marketing")
Social media is used as extremely effective relationship marketing. Learn how you can use it this way.
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[Part 9: Don't Buy Paid Advertising]({{ site.url }}/small-business-website-paid-advertising "Why Paid Advertising Isn’t Worth Your Money")
Paid advertising has its place. The baby steps of learning how to wield the internet is not it.
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Don't forget to check out "Catching Up to the Internet" to get the updated version of this guide on your Kindle!