Free Small Business Website Manual

The Small Business Website Manual (previously known as the "Power Websites Report") is a collection of articles, links, and resources, intended to teach you everything you need to know to get online and start selling your products. It is guaranteed to save you dozens of hours of research and avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes at the beginning stages of your website development. Not just for beginners, however, we also cover much more advanced topics including ecommerce application service providers, autoresponder systems, search-engine optimization and pay-per-click, and much more.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Power Hosting

2.1 Introduction to Power Hosting
2.2 Basic hosting and web design options.
2.3 Hiring a designer vs. doing it yourself
2.4 Tracking visitors (website statistics)
2.5 Building traffic and understanding how Search engines work
2.6 Newsletters, ezines and bloggers
2.7 Sequential auto-responder series
2.8 Ad tracking
2.9 Affiliate management
2.10 Shopping cart systems
2.11 Merchant Accounts 9

3. Traditional Hosting Providers

3.1 Summary and recommendations
3.2 Some recommended providers

4. Power Hosting Providers  the full comparison review

4.1 Executive summary
4.2 Comparison table (Sitesell, Thirdsphere and 1ShoppingCart)
4.3 Sitesell reviewed
4.4 Thirdsphere reviewed
4.5 Ecomincs reviewed
4.6 Conclusion

5. Outsourcing your web development

6. Website Audio

7. Conclusion