1-Misconceptions of Building an Intuit Website

When my first site was built, I just knew that I would become an overnight success. It was a music website that had original songs that I had recorded. Now one had told me that just because I was building a website did not mean that I would become well known.

After having a website for several months online and not having any visitors yet, I learned real fast that the idea of “If you build it they will come” was totally wrong. An online business or website is very much like starting a business off line; you must establish a reputation as being an authority in your niche market.

A business grows through word of mouth, advertising and over time. Slow and steady growth is one of the main foundations that make for a successful business. The same is true for having an Intuit website that becomes well know, it is going to take time.

2-Understanding Search Engines

The three major search engines are Google, Yahoo and Bing. When an Internet user is trying to locate specific information on the Internet, it is done through entering search phrases or terms into a search box and clicking on submit. The results pages will display related terms and website pages that match with the term entered in the search box.

In order to get listed in the SERPS (search engine results pages) you will need to understand how SEO works with your Intuit website. This can be learned through the SEO Extreme Video series available at the HomesteadUsers.com website. AS an Intuit beginner you must learn SEO before publishing your website onto the internet.

Content is king on the Internet and so is Google. If you generate content regularly you will have a better chance of getting traffic through search engines. Google, Yahoo and Bing will recognize you as an expert authority in your niche as you continue to publish content on the Internet.

If you want traffic through search engines, then you must learn SEO and publish lots of content using key word phrases.

3-Traffic to Intuit Website

You can get free traffic that will only require an investment of your time by publishing loads of articles.

You can get traffic through paid advertising platforms. Google Adwords is one way of paying to have advertisements on the Internet. Yahoo and Bing have programs that will allow you to create your own ads as well. These systems are designed to charge you in relation to how many people are competing for advertising in your niche. If there are a lot of people advertising in your field of choice, then it’s going to cost you more to have advertisements get displayed in top positions on the Internet.

There are many things to learn as an Intuit website beginner. The Homestead website builder is an awesome web software program that is easy to use, but if you don’t understand how the Internet works, then you will be frustrated. Learn SEO first then build your website. That’s the most important thing in this introduction video offering Intuit website help for the beginner.

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Tutorial Topics Promised for Homestead Websites

* Tips for using the SiteBuilder

* Integrating third party software applications

* Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

* Email Marketing

* eCommerce (Online Stores)

By all appearances this clip was made since Intuit changed the Site Builder’s functions comments and menu selections in 2009.

This is a great clip where Gene mentions that most Intuit beginners start by using a template. He actually does the demonstration on what appears to be his own business website for martial arts training. The edits were made on Novemeber 4 2009.

Changing page names in the Intuit website creator is a rather simple process. As we observe the Gene Townsend website tutorial for SiteBuilder users, he opens a page that was originally named “Menu” and changes it to reflect the actual contents of the business schedule that is “Classes.”

Whenever there’s a page that gets renamed in Intuit’s web builder, the old page still remains in the file manager. In the Gene Townsend training video for renaming SiteBuilder pages, his last example is related to cleaning out the old page that was called “Menu” from inside the SiteBuilder file manager. He basically goes into the file manager, selects the unwanted page and then clicks on delete at the top of the page.

• Tip: If you are wondering why you cannot delete a page or remove it from inside the file manager of the SiteBuilder, it must not be open in the web page editor. Click on file at the top left of your page and then select “close all.” Once you close the page that you want to eliminate from your website, you can now delete it from the file manager. That’s one small detail that Gene Townsend didn’t mention in this Intuit teaching on renaming pages.

With this SiteBuilder template that he is using for the Martial Arts business, he is using Homestead’s built-in navigation feature. In order to complete the change correctly, Gene has to click on the navigation menu. Once he does this, in the properties editor to the right, he then clicks on “links.” This allows him to change the name from “Menu” to the new page name that is “Classes.”

Working inside the Intuit website builder is really very easy. There are many tutorial videos on Youtube for working with SiteBuilder. The Homestead Expert Youtube channel has many video tutorial clips that demonstrate how to build and design Intuit web pages using this great point, click, drag and drop system.

Let’s keep our eyes open for more training about how to work with the Intuit website builder from Gene Townsend. I have to say I am very excited about the tips that he will be sharing with us about working with SiteBuilder.