If you're serious about your online business, get a proper website developed, stop using services like MrSite

26 June 2012

Having a website in today’s world isn’t a tough thing to do. If you sit down at the computer for five minutes, you can create a wide variety of websites and may never have to spend a single penny. You can create a free blog on WordPress or Blogger. You can have a site on HubPages or Digg. You can create a social networking presence on Facebook or Twitter. And you can even have a pseudo website with services like WebStarts and MrSite.

Before you opt for the latter, however, you need to know something about legitimate websites. If you ever visit a popular, successful online business, you’re not going to see an address like www.WinningBusiness.com/PaidService.

Instead, you’re going to see just the .com address, not the continuation of the service. Services like MrSite and WebStarts make sure that you always advertise their sites as you’re advertising yours. In short, you’re not a real website owner. You might as well have a blog.

People who are serious about online businesses ditch those fake companies and pay the money for real web hosts. With only a minimal investment of a few dollars every month, you can get so much more. Here are just a few reasons to get a real site.

Benefits of Having a Real Website

Trustworthiness: There’s a level of trust that comes with having a real website. If you’re using a blog or a free website host, you’re basically saying to your customers that your business isn’t doing well enough to even afford a real web package. Who is going to trust you enough to buy from you if your site looks more like something out of a cartoon than a real website?

Added Features:  You get so many more real features with a real website. You can add videos, you can have as many pages as you want, you can set up shopping carts and landing pages. You can have a blog and a forum on your site and tie it all in together, and you can be sure that you will have added security and plenty of tools at your disposal.

Professionalism: Along with the extra tools and features, you can create a professional-looking site. When you have one of those free sites, you’re only allowed to use so many different templates and colors and styles. With a real web host, your imagination is the limit. You can create anything you want and present it in any way you choose.

Trafficking: Real sites are also much easier to traffic due to the web address. When you’re dealing with a site with that /MrSite at the end of it, you have to think of all the thousands of different pages competing with that. The more work you do, the more you’re promoting that service and not your particular site! You’re basically only available within that service’s incredibly small directory.

When it’s all said and done, you visit sites like Amazon.com and not some cheap term like Amazon.com/SomethingGeneric. People know in this day and age that you have to host your business site on a real web host. It’s a small investment that pays off in a big way.