How to Start Your Own Website for Stay at Home Moms
Or you can pay about $250 (it may be slightly higher since prices change each month) to have them build the website for you. I would recommend this if you do not have a lot of time on your hands. Although if you devote about 4 hours a day to your website you can get it up and running in about a week. Before you even begin setting up your website, you will want to write out your plan for the site. Make a list of everything you want to include, how you want it to look, what special features you will be adding. I would also suggest that you think about selling advertising space on your website. This will help to cover the monthly cost of your website and help to promote your website as well.
Once your website is set up just the way you want it, you should begin thinking about how to promote your site. There are various ways to go about this. First lets take a look at the free options that are offered online, since most stay at home moms who are looking to create their own site are on a budget. You could try signing up for various message boards for moms. This is a great way for you to meet other moms and tell them about your website. I have tried this and have found it works very well. Just make sure that before you post any information about your website on any message board you read the rules first. Most message boards have a particular folder set aside for those that want to advertise for free.
Now if you are willing to invest a few dollars you could place links to your website on other very popular websites for moms. In order to find these sites you can do a search on google, and take a look at what comes up. Make sure that you really do your homework so that you are getting what you pay for. There are a lot of websites where you can advertise for as low as $5 a month. Also check on some of the message boards that you signed up for, some of the moms on there will probably be able to help with several ideas and suggestions.
If you are looking to make money with your website than you might think about adding google adsense to your site. This is a program where you are actually paid each time someone clicks on one of the ads that is placed on your website. The only downside to this is that you have no control on the types of ad’s that are posted on your site. Although the content that is posted on the site is relevant to that particular page. For example if your homepage is about work for stay at home moms than the ads on that page will be about the same topic.
Sometimes some of the ad’s can be scams, so you may want to post a note on the bottom of your web page that states that you are not affiliated with the advertisements on the site. Also you will want to suggest that anyone visiting the site do plenty of research before signing up for anything. This would include any of the paid advertisers that you sign up. What this will do is keep people from blaming you for any scams they may come across.
Don’t expect that within one week you will get thousands of visitors to your site, you will probably start out with just five maybe by the end of the first week. Just remember it will take time for word to spread about your site. You will just want to make sure that people are getting a positive view of your site instead of a negative one. Start out slow and take your time, don’t rush to build the greatest website of all time in one day. The more thought that you put into the website the better it will be.