Step 2 - Plan For Success!

At Sirius Solution, you have some choices with the type of internet presence you wish to create. The main thing you will want to narrow down is do you need a standard website, a blog. or BOTH!. Creating a Blog or a Website is a crucial step to your internet business, in fact, it can be considered everything to your success.

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Hosting

No matter what you choose to do as far as your website, to begin getting one set up, you will need some web hosting. Web hosting is the service that will actually store your site on the web, and allow it to be publicly accessible via your domain name.

We have two primary hosting plans available for your business website:

• Business Starter
• Business Premium

Platforms

Sirius Solution primarily uses and recommends two different platforms for Website or Blog creation.

Blog (WordPress)

Word Press is website software that allows for internet blogging of articles and video. If you are going to be writing internet news or affiliate marketing for your online business, this choice may be for you. Word Press males it easy to choose a niche and customize your blog, and begin immediately posting stories or affiliate links.

CMS Website (Joomla)

A Content Management System or CMS allows for great flexibility and functionality for websites aiming for rich content, Joomla is in all likelihood the very best that a CMS can offer.

Joomla and Wordpress are completely Open-Source, so if there is any amount of custom programming you need done for your Blog or Website, our skilled programmers can make possible just about anything you need done.

Design

Always remember, that you will want to keep your website user friendly and professional, beginning with a design that gets you most of the way there will be a great help to you. That way that both WordPress and Joomla accomplishes this is through a template system. A template is essentially a "look & feel" that one can install, and completely change the look of the Website or Blog within a matter of clicks, with no programming knowledge.

Helpful links to some template galleries include:

• WordPress Template Gallery
• RocketTheme
  

Affiliate Marketing

When you place Ads or product recommendations on your website or blog and get credit for the sales, this is Affiliate Marketing. This practice can be undertaken at any time, and can be any percentage of your focus. Now, if you are planning on making Affiliate Marketing a core of your business, it should be explained here and implemented during the creation of your website.

• Sign up with Affiliates (IE Amazon, ClickBank, LinkShare)
• Write an article or page about a product
• Place affiliate links back to that product
• Closely watch statistics and collect your money

Consider you have a blog or website and you want to promote a digital camera. Essentially what you are going to write a blog post or web page reviewing and/or recommending the model of digital camera you would like to sell for commission. Then you will go to a place like Amazon, find the digital camera you are writing about, copy the affiliate code for that product page, and paste it somewhere in your article or page.

This can be done over and over again to fill your site up with content, or you can just place banners or similar ads on your site simply to earn a little extra income, the choice is yours.

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Conclusion

In creating your website or blog, to be honest is the easy part. It is the constant updating and modification that you should be prepared for, search engines do not like stale content and unchanging websites. if you have a blog, it is recommended to post a new article on average once per day, because this is how often you want the search engines returning to go over your content. For websites, it is a little more relaxed, however you should still consider modifications or updates 2-3 times per month or as much as needed to make sure your content is up to date.

More on how the search engines respond to site content will be discussing in a later section, Marketing Strategy.

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