Web.com.....anyone?

[SooperJake]

Have any of you used web.com to build your website? If so, how is it working out?

I just dumped my GoDaddy account after a year of dismal results (read: no results), and am looking for an alternative rather than giving up entirely.

Jake

[SooperJake]

I may have just answered my own question. I found a page of 30 reviews and the large majority of them are negative.

[DoubleC]

That's too bad Jake. I need to build a new site too so I'll be following this thread. Have you checked out squarespace and, oh there's another one I've seen advertised. I haven't yet but I know they have web templates you can use instead of trying to build one from scratch. Cheryl

[El Zipster]

Try HostGator. I'm currently building a website using Wordpress and have got my domain and hosting from them.

Good prices and a very helpful customer service dept.

Cheers

Zip

[Johanna]

Hostgator comes with a zillion templates to use too.

[DoubleC]

Jake, someone recommended hostgator to me too, i just forgot until it was mentioned here. Cheryl

Edited March 13, 2014 by DoubleC

[needles]

i built my business website on yola,

not the best site out but it generates the majority of my work,

first two years costs totalled £17.00. waited till last minute before i renewed and they offered a lower renewal price. lots of templates to use, worth looking at

al

its here

www.lincsrepair.co.uk

[SooperJake]

Thanks for the input, everyone. My biggest problem with Go Daddy was getting any exposure on the web. Every time I'd call them for help, all they wanted to do was sell me something. That seems to be their central focus. I don't need bells and whistles, I need exposure and traffic.

I can build the website easily enough from any of the template-type companies out there. But how does one get people to find it?

Jake

[Johanna]

It's not the webhost's job to promote the website. Some companies sell SEO services, but that's separate from hosting. (SEO= search engine optimization)

Google has "webmaster tools" which is probably the most effective free SEO out there.

[needles]

you need to build a site, then get it added to as many free advertising websites you can find, there are hundreds of them some good some not so, but your after getting as many clicks as possible.

but definitely as Johanna says, need to learn the use of google analytics, etc, there are tons of different ways of improving your sites visibility takes ages to pick em up, took me a year to finally get on to first page on searches. so probably easier and quicker to pay a guy guy to do it, if you can afford it, I couldn't so had to spend two years playing.

all you need is on the web, just takes time to find and do.

good luck, nearly drove me insane.........