On this blog you will find Intuit website tutorials that can be watched by simply scrolling through the video’s category located on the menu bar. Link building, adding Adsense, embedding a Google calendar and advanced keyword research are just a small portion of the lessons we have provided on this blog. This particular site is just one location where we provide information, tools and tips for working with the Site Builder.

The largest collection of tutorials for a Homestead website owner to learn from are the ones we provide in the Marketing Center. In the collection of lessons- there are blog posts, videos, audios, e-books and links to top sites on the Internet that you can learn from quickly. A wealth of knowledge can be instantly available to you that will greatly increase the speed at which you learn and also decrease the time you have to invest in mastering the Site Builder.

Videos are the best tutorials for learning the Intuit Sitebuilder content. That’s why we continue to publish new tutorials regularly. They are much easier to follow and understand than any other method of learning. The reasons are obvious. You get audio and visual- which make learning easier than trying to sift through understanding what someone is trying to explain in a text document. Even if an e-book or article has image graphics, it’s much quicker and easier to comprehend by learning from a tutorial video lesson.

All of our Homestead Sitebuilder tutorials give accurate, detailed information. In fact, we have never had anyone ever demand that a refund be issued due to receiving poor information. The tools, tips or techniques we provide in the tutorial lessons are beneficial in many ways.

Here are a few Youtube tutorials offering Intuit/Homestead website help.

* Beginners link building
* Fast way of promoting your website
* Advanced keyword research
* Adding Adsense
* Deleting a website in Sitebuilder
* What is the Alt Text feature?
* Adding a favicon
* How to set up Google Analytics
* Easy way to create a banner
* Blurry images
* Creating a PDF e-book
* How to add Kontera
* Adding Youtube videos
* Deleting or eliminating web pages
* Working with multiple elements

There are many other tutorials for learning about building a Homestead website located on our Sitebuilder Expert Youtube channel. Of all the tutorials we have created for you, the most important place for you to begin is in learning how to do SEO on a Intuit website. Optimization techniques are vitally important for you to learn first before you even think about creating web pages. If you don’t learn how to optimize your pages properly- your site will not be a success.

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Recently I watched an excellent video about what can be accomplished within a month of starting a new blog when hard work and a business mindset unite. We can learn very important guidelines for starting a successful blog from this video review about the  Planting Dollars site.  It was developed by Lisa on her “2 Create A Website” blog.

The inspiration for the title of THIS post, (“Stop Whining; Start Working on Your Website!”) was realized about twelve minutes into the video. As I listened to Lisa talking about how success is the direct result of working a plan, I recalled when the light was turned on for me. The turning point of my Internet success came when I made a commitment to post one article per day on a blog that I manage. Because I did not get discouraged and continued to work towards my goal, my blog now has over eight hundred visitors per day after only one year.

Much of my determination to NOT GIVE UP was due to one person who posted a comment in the Website Babble forum in response to my whining about how slow things were going with making money on the Internet.

They simply said: “Hang in there, it’s definitely worth the wait.” I am in total agreement with that statement now.

Since then my online income has steadily increased, but the upward change in revenue came as a direct result of being persistent in steadily working on improving my sites.

As I have mentioned in prior posts, we must treat our website business like a regular job and not as a hobby.

When we look at where we have come from and set short obtainable goals for where we want to get to eventually, our accomplishments reach great heights. Rome was not built in a day. In this video-blog- post called “Get on the Treadmill With me and You’re Getting Off First”- Will Smith tells a story about how a wall is built by laying one brick at a time into perfect position.

I can assure you that if you will be persistent, stop whining and start working on improving your website- building skills and online business growth, passive income will be the result of your efforts.

That’s the beauty of making money on the Internet. Once we learn how to automate our systems and duplicate the things that are working, we will enjoy recurring fruit from our labor.

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* 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.

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Our free Homestead/Intuit website SEO ebook covers a multitude of topics for you to begin to lay your foundational building blocks on. Before you build your website design, it’s very important that you learn detailed information about search engine optimization. Learning the proper techniques of how to optimize your SiteBuilder pages is vitally important to the success of your site.

Here are a few of the topics with brief descriptions.

Homestead SEO Book Intoduction
Here’s a simple truth, if you want to get good placements with the search engines you will have to learn SEO. Homestead website optimization techniques differ from other website building programs, but the basics of optimizing your pages are the same. After studying this subject intensely, of how to optimize a SiteBuilder page to be appealing to Google, Yahoo and Bing, more of my website pages were indexed and many of them made it to the top.

How Competitive is Your Niche?
The competition that is in your niche is going to initially determine how well you place in the results pages when someone does a search using your keywords. If you type a few of your keyword phrases into Googles search box and it returns two pages worth of websites focusing on the same words, then you’re going to have to really work at getting to the top.

What is SEO
SEO is process of selecting specific keyword phrases related to a site, and ensuring that the site places well when those keyword phrases are part of a Web search. It is all about positioning your website’s rank higher in the SERPS (or, “search engine results pages). Many books have been written on the subject and Internet sites are dedicated to providing information about it. It’s a lucrative niche that many marketers focus on. If you can get more visitors to your website, then you achieve a greater amount of success with your vision. With so many people interested in Internet marketing as a way of making money, SEO is big business.

Search Engine Spiders-An important subject for laying foundational Intuit/Homestead SEO building blocks.
Understanding the job of the search engine spiders and how they read data on a site is the technical end of search engine optimization. You don’t need to understand all of the aspects of how they work, but a basic knowledge is helpful.

Spiders have been developed to read site content like you and I read. Starting in the top left hand corner, they will read the text lines from left to right. When it finds a link it can follow, it will record that link and command another bot to investigate the copy and collect information found on the document the link leads to. The spiders will continue moving through the website and the Internet until it has collected all the data it is programmed to record to accurately place your pages in the SERPS.

What is a Sitemap
The term “sitemap” is basically self explanatory. If you think about what you would view by looking at a road map, the same principle of interconnected pathways applies to a website’s sitemap. Your websites “roads” are the links that connect everything together.

Writing Optimized Content-This is the most important chapter in the eBook about SEO for Homestead website users.
A website that has acceptable SEO will have plenty of content. Not just any kind of mish mush though, it must be rich keyword focused content. It also must be methodically arranged in such a way that the search engines will give you favor in the SRERPS. The way that Google, Yahoo and MSN determine what your pages and website are all about is through the inter-connectivity of content. There are certain things that the spiders and bots are programmed to look for in order for your pages to get top rankings.

Becoming an Authority
There are so many factors that affect whether or not Google, Yahoo or MSN like your website. If you can achieve an authority status, then your rankings will be moved up in the SERPS. Search engine evaluations work a lot like business’s or churches, you don’t get promoted to a higher level in service until you have proven your expertise, honesty, originality, and character to be genuine and high quality. If your presence in the Internet world brings adds things of quality, then you will eventually establish a good reputation.

Understanding Page Rank-This portion of the eBook on SEO for your Homestead website is a must to understand for optimizing SiteBuilder pages to meet long term goals.
Page rank is the value that Google places on a website’s page. The Google tool bar can be downloaded and the page rank feature can be activated. The meter works from zero to ten, with ten being the best rank that you can get.

This free  SEO book for SiteBuilder users will get the foundation set for you to start building your Internet business upon. After reading the eBook, with specific Homestead website design information, you may have to travel a few more blocks down the road of understanding SEO (or, “search engine optimization”). In any event, this eBook will point you in the right direction and help you with understanding how to optimize a Intuit/Homestead website.

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