Building my first website?

Have you proven that you can sell the product?

Before I buy a domain name and build a site, I make sure I can sell the product by sending traffic to a presell landing page etc.

Some people simply promote the product without a landing page to see what happens - as a test.

Some pay and some employ only free traffic methods for the test.

Search engines seem to prefer a blog.

A free blogger blog may/can be your answer unless you've already purchased the domain name and hosting.

You'd like to get traffic with seo?

Where are you getting your content for seo?

Do you have a seo strategy in place?

Hope This Helps!!

TL

It is good that you are taking action and getting started.

SEO is a long-term strategy, and requires a lot of work unless it is a small niche. Even then Google do not favor new sites.

"Organic traffic" is a bit vague - have you thought it through and have a plan?

For your site I suggest you learn Joomla which is an excellent investment in time.

I think I will go with wordpress.org, I have been doing some key word research this afternoon and am wondering what is the best way to find out the number of searches a pacific keyword gets each day?

Hello. Oh well, this is my first post. Seems like a great community. Joomla is great and easy to use but for your purpose, I would not really recommend it as a start. Why? Joomla comes with loads of features to be used as a 'full' site. Many sections, integration with forum software. I'd personally use it more for a 'mother site'. As for your concern, I would highly recommend you buy the $7 secrets script. There you will find templates that you can easily edit to suit your needs. Although these templates may be just a little bit outdated, they will just give you a good idea about the basic look. Then you can snoop around and see some of the new offers and how the 'fancy new' sales pages look like. Since you're not selling your own product, I think you do not need the whole $7 Secrets scripts. Although they are cheap, I may be able to send you at least the sales letter template to deal with, Is that legal? Investing time and effort in getting to know Joomla, Wordpress and the $7 secret scripts is definetly worth it. Wordpress is great for a blog, $7 secret script is good (as a start) for selling your own products and in my opinion, Joomla would be great if you intend to create a 'mother site' which you can be contacted and which connects your other websites and deals with your visitors concerns.

Hope I've helped.

I recommend either Joomla or wordpress.org for your website. Although wordpress is the most popular nowadays.

Good luck on your website and newfound business!

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By the way, I highly recommend this plugin: SEO Smart Links .. I can't post links yet but you can find it in Extend/plugins area in Wordpress site. It will do wonders.

Thank you all for your fantastic advice, I am going to devote this afternoon and tonight to Key word research.

Hi Samuel,
Welldone in taking the first and positive step to start. As for building a website and the easiest way, I would highlly recommend wordpress self hosted on your own domain.

As for kewowrd research when looking at those figures of how many searches are there, do bare in mind that a % of the searches are conducted by webmaster themselves in their research and to see how their sites are doing.

Apart from that, you seem to have a positive mentality and have a sense of direction in what you want and what you have to do - all that remains to be said is, good luck mate

I too say start a blog with WP...

BTW, Stephen, could you elaborate more on on doing miracles with only a few good posts on a blog? I have a blog with good content but still not doing miracles in 2 months..