[allseasons]

steve , may i ask are you paying £5.99 a month?. if so do you realy think its worth paying that much for a window cleaning website.
The only reason i built my site was that am getting my van sign's done and though that a website address is easyer to remember that 11 digit number.

why did you build your 1?

mike

[matt]

http://www.34sp.com/index.shtml

these are very good, good "up-time" and real cheap, i recommend them to all my punters

tKZ is hosted in the USA, and it currently costs me near 500 notes a year   ..but they are out of this world for speed and uptime

[STEVE71163]

Hi Mike
         I have the Microsoft Business package which is £9.99 a month. I created the site basically to give potential customers  another point of contact and like you i think if you have your web address on your van i think it is easier to remember than a telephone number. I have had work back from it and it generally more than pays for itself now but did not in the beginning. Its a case of getting on as many search engines as possible.

Steve

[karlosdaze]

I don't know about you lot, but we get web space when you purchase broadband in Spain. Can't you just buy your web name and upload to your server?

[allseasons]

Steve  Did you pay to be added to search engines, or just add your site to the free ones?

Is there other way's to get my self added to more search engines with out paying?.

[matt]

http://www.theknowledgezones.co.uk/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=14&t=000130

i replied to a post about this on tKZ only last week, worth a read

[allseasons]

do i have to sign up for it ??

[matt]

are yes you will, dont worry though, its only your e.mail address, its free aswell

[matt]

here is a cut and paste of the post, if you dont want to pop over and have a look, though you got nothing to lose, we have some real good PC / Tech guys involved

its a mine field, it really is
i use some of these :

http://www.submit-express.com/submit.html

http://www.submitexpress.co.uk/submitexpress_free_search_engine_submission.php (these ask to add a button, yea right)

http://www.addme.com/

oh and ineedhits

http://www.ineedhits.com/

as i said, its a long process, can take 3 months, and still you might be so far down the list its hard to tell  

you need your meta tag correct otherwise its a waste of time, 1 of the above site will test your meta-tags for you

[STEVE71163]

Steve  Did you pay to be added to search engines, or just add your site to the free ones?

Is there other way's to get my self added to more search engines with out paying?.

Hi Mike
          I used some software called hello engines that came with my one and one package and also some other software that optimised the site as far as meta tags etc and hello engines submit your site to hundreds of search engines. Also make sure your site address is on everything so that over a period of time the visitors pick up and then hopefully more work will follow.

Good Luck!

Steve

[highwash]

MOST COMPUTERS HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH FREE WEB SPACE TO HAVE A SITE BUILT ESPECIALLY BROADBAND. CONTACT www.webamaze.co.uk I JUST PAY FOR MY DOMAIN NAME APPROX £7 FOR 2 YEARS! MY SITE COST £120 TO SET UP I PAY NOTHING ELSE! GOOD LUCK - TERRY www.highwashsystems.co.uk

[STEVE71163]

Hi Terry
          Can you get web statistics from your free web space


Steve

[highwash]

yes steve  - you register with bravenet (again free) and the stats are very comprehensive. any info contact phil at webamaze

[sam hughes]

I have freeserve broadband, just had a look they offer 100meg free space, only trouble is I cant see any where if u can import ur own domain name, I dont know if they force adds like free hosting sites, I'll have a look.