How to Make Money Online Day 5 – Best Website Platform

How to Choose the Best Website Platform to Run Your Site or Blog?

Today we will look at how to choose the best website platform to run your business website. Nowadays with improvement of technology you do not need know codes and crack your head for building your website or blog. You can setup a site with clicks of mouse within less than 20 minutes. Compare to a few years back now you can have a complete website or blogging system for free. But prior to setup your site you must choose the best website platform suit your business model or your needs.

First step to choose the best website platform for you is asked yourself:-

1. What you are going to use your web page for?

2. Do you want to express about yourself or about your organization?

3. Are you teaching or entertaining someone?

These are questions which can make a big difference in choosing the best website platform for your needs. For example, if you are just blogging about your life and you have no real interest in making money from your blog, than virtually any free software will do. At this stage the most important thing for you to consider is the ease of use. You can use each type of blog for a while just to see which one you feel the most comfortable with.

A few Types of Websites List Below:-

eCommerce Website

The purpose of this type of website is to sell products or services. eCommerce websites are used for promoting a business or service and are among the most common type of website on the internet.

Personal Website

The purpose of this type of website is to provide information about an individual. This type of website is run by an individual that contains information or any content that the individual wishes to include.

Organizational Website

The purpose of this type of website is to advocate an individuals opinion or a groups point of view. A website where persons with similar interests communicate with each other, usually by chat or message boards.

Educational Website

The purpose of this type of website is to provide information about an educational establishment or to present information in an educational manner.

Entertainment Website

The purpose of this type of website is to entertain and provide amusement.
News Website

The purpose of this type of website is to provide information about current events, dedicated to dispensing news and commentary.

Blog

A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. Blogs are typically updated regularly using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”

Hybrid Website

Many websites are a mixture of types. For example, a business web site may promote the businesses products, but may also host informative documents, such as white papers or provide news for it’s visitors. Remember, information is the soul of the internet and if used wisely articles and informational pieces are a good bait to bring in visitors.

Choosing the Best Website Platform between Static Website and Blog

Nowadays many people go to blogging software platform because the system is easy to setup, easy to maintain and mostly free. But some webmasters express static website can bring more business to its owner since it focus directly to their products and services and never sway away the visitors to less important pages. Well their arguments do have valid reasons. Lots of other info may distract a buyer’s attention and may lose your sales. But latest blogging technologies solve this problem too. Now you can able to build static pages in blogging platform.

Why Free Website and Blogs Risky for Long Term Business.

If you are using your blog to make money either as an affiliate marketer or with the use of Adsense, you will need to be a little more careful. Going with the free version for a business blog is a very risky proposition Any of the free web hosting web page or blogging sites have their own terms of service (TOS), which are always changing, if they find your site or blog to not compliant with their TOS, the can delete your website. Now think of what that would mean if you were making money with a particular blog and you’ve spent time building up traffic to that blog and one day it was just gone! I have personally experience this situation at my beginning of blogging life.

Free WordPress blog system doesn’t allow affiliate links but at blogger.com you can promote any affiliate product as well adsense program. But as I said above the risk is yours, you don’t own the site. If you have bought the domain name and have your blog hosted on another site such as Hostgator.com, now you own it. That way your blog is your own personal piece of online real estate, you own it and you can control what you put on your site and what you do with it.

Looking For Extra Value In Blogging Platform:

Another thing to take into consideration when looking for the best software are the types of plugins available. Plugins are small software programs that you can literally ‘plugin’ to your blog by just a few clicks of the mouse, anyone can use them, and there are probably ten’s of thousands of them available for every imaginable need, and most are free. If this concept seems weird to you, just think of them like apps for a smart phone, it’s a similar concept. Some types of blogs will have a lot more plugins than others, so this could help you make up your mind which is best for you.

It’s always nice to have options, and when it comes to finding the best blog software you have quite a few. Just keep your overall goals in mind when trying to decide which is best for you. For the most part, if you are just a ‘personal blogger’ and not really in it to make money, the free versions are just fine for you and your needs.

Here Are The List Of Some Best Blogging Software Available.

1. WordPress – Includes a feature that offers a user the absolute control of the weblog. Widely known for its speed and simplicity. It may take more or less 5 minutes for installation and provides easy upgrades.

2. Joomla – Offers refined and simplified menus and better site and media management. It also provides extra modules and components that would improve the assessment of your website and be able to enrich your visitors’ experience.

3. Typo 3 – offers amazing features for content management – includes internal search engine, editing on page and a lot more, and is known for its efficiency. But it is not very simple to use as wordpress.

4. Frog CMS – offers features which include on-page editing, API and templating code. Widely known for its simplicity and speed.

5. Drupal – it can support form small personal blogs to huge corporate, political sites and even large online communities. It provides sophisticated/classy programming interfaces for programmers and developers. But for basic website installation and administration doesn’t programming skills.

6. B2evolution – combined with the built in multi-user administration management tool, makes the system robust enough for more commercial endeavors, such as product promotion blogs. If you have much to publish with multiple themes, this is the software you are looking for.

7. Nucleus – extremely robust blogging tool in its own right, it also contains some powerful features that can provide benefits in promotion of your blog. Nucleus offers the ability to optimize its URLS, creating simple page addresses. This makes the pages search engine (and user) friendly.

Each of these blogging software have their own advantages and disadvantages, you should try to select the software that helps you achieve the long term goal that you have in mind for your website.

My personal recommendation is completely free but best website platform WordPress.org.

That is all for today guys, if you have any question please post it at below. Talk soon and thank you.

For next tutorial update please visit at How to Make Money Online index page.