HOW TO GET YOUR WEB PAGE HOSTED ON THE INTERNET

By Randy Justason

  Building a web page and saving it as an html document on your computer is fun, but it won't do you much good for getting customers and affiliate signups. You must transfer your web page to a web host. A web host is a person or company who will let you use space on their web servers to copy your web page and images to. 

  Web hosts either charge a fee for this service or, some even offer it for free. Free is good but it normally comes with a price! You may not pay money for the space but the hosting company will probably put their own banners or some other type of advertising on your site.  If you are simply using the site for banner exchanges this may not be much of an inconvenience to you.

  To see what I am talking about, simply take a look at the following web page www.moneywonders.bizhosting.com . I am using a free web host Bizhosting.com and they put a banner on top of each page of my site. It does slow the loading of the page down considerably but it is my first web site and I am now putting more effort into this new site which I am paying for the hosting.

  Paying for web hosting should not be too much of a concern to you as you can get great packages for as little as $4.95 per month!  Here is a site I do recommend because of their excellent price and the great bonus software you will receive when you sign up: 

1and1.

  So, your next step is to find a web host and sign up.  There are lots of free ones if that is the way you want to go. You can find them by going to your favorite search engine and typing in "free web host" or something like that.  Also, you can check with your Internet Service Provider (ISP) as many offer free web space to their internet customers.

  When you sign up you will need to come up with a name for your web site (domain name).  Chances are, if you sign up with a free host, your domain name will be part of the parent company name (i.e. www.moneywonders.bizhosting.com ).  In that example, moneywonders is the name I came up with and bizhosting.com is the company which offers the free web space.

  Of course you can, and I strongly suggest you do, get your own domain name. A domain name like www.mlmwonders.com is a lot easier to remember than the one above, don't you think?  Once again prices vary for registering domain names.  Here are two places I highly recommend:

Great Domania and 1and1.  I use both of them as I have more than one domain name registered.

  Now that you've signed up with a web host, you must transfer your html file and any accompanying images to the host server. You do this by using a File Transfer Protocol (ftp) program. The web host may provide this for you. If the host does not provide a ftp capability, you can download ftp software for free.  You can simply do a search for "free ftp program" or something like that.  I believe there is one called WS-FTP which is can be downloaded for free.

  For ease of working with your files, I suggest that when you upload them you keep them all in the main directory.   You could make separate directories for your html files and one for your image files, but it is extra work and you will have to make sure all of the links in your web page code point to the proper directory.  I suggest one directory because when you built your web page in the previous tutorial and put in your image source (img src) codes, they can be simply left the way you typed them (i.e. img src="banner1.jpg").  My new web site has over 120 pages and hundreds of images, all in one directory, with no problems.

  Now that your files have been uploaded to the host server, all you need to do is go to any search engine and type in the address of your new web site (i.e. www.yoursite.com if you purchased a domain name, or www.yoursite.thewebhost.com if you go with a free web host and your domain is part of their domain name). If you did everything right, you should see your web page in your browser!

  If you happen to see little red x's where your banners or images should be, then you must check your html code and make sure you used the proper img src code. 

SUMMARY

  That was a very quick tutorial on how to upload a web page.  As you can see building a web page and getting it on the world wide web is as easy as typing html code into a notepad document, saving it as an html document, signing up for a web host package, and uploading your documents (html and images) to a web server.

  So what are you waiting for, log onto your internet service, find a cheap (but reliable) web host (I strongly suggest 1and1), get yourself a domain name (once again, I suggest Great Domania or 1and1), upload the html and image files to your web host and start sending visitors to it.

  One way to get visitors to your site is to use banner exchange programs.  They are free, easy to use (now that you have a web page) and there are lots to choose from.

  If you are not sure about banner exchange programs, simply take a look at this short tutorial I have produced just for you!

  If you have any questions about building a web page, uploading your docs to a web host, doing banner exchanges, or anything else to do with advertising your site or mlm in general, don't hesitate to contact me, I'll be glad to help where I can.

To Your Continued Success;

Randy Justason

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  You have my permission to publish this information on your web site (it's always good to have more content on your web site) as long as you do not change it and leave all links and this resource box intact.  Randy Justason is a mlm/affiliate home business entrepreneur (just like you) and is the Owner/Webmaster of http://www.mlmwonders.com . Contact Randy at: webmaster@mlmwonders.com
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