Let’s Talk About Yahoo Web Hosting
Yahoo, the online mega website which is as big as Google offers to let you “grow your business”. The offer is for using their online services in hosting your website. You must have a product or a service that you want to sell to online users. They have templates of various websites that are already built and formatted for your selection. You get to choose the look you want, and you simply fill in the already designed website with your personal information about you and your product or service. They call that web hosting. You pay them a predetermined fee for the use of their product which are web design tools and for web hosting.
Why do you need to spend say, 10 dollars a month for Yahoo web hosting? Well, their promotional package boasts of tools that you can use to individualize your own website on their web. Although you pay 10 dollars a month, they claim that your name for your store which is what web hosting is all about is free. The name of your store which is what they will be hosting is called a Domain Name. They will not charge you to register your name online which is then your name and can’t be used by anyone else online. In addition to their guarantee of 24 hour online customer service while hosting your website, you also get unlimited website disk storage, transfer and email addresses. You can make up to 1000 different email addresses to use in marketing your products or services.
They also offer to show you how to submit your site to other search engines like Google, Search and Yahoo.
You are also offered an enticing discount towards online marketing services like Google Adword and Yahoo Search Marketing.
The freebies and the promotional packaging for a Yahoo web hosting site seems like a really good way to have an online store presence. Yahoo’s web hosting tool’s lure is their design capabilities. But, it is really geared more to a company that has customers already using their product or their services. Because having a tremendous looking website with cart services and payment links is fine, but without customers or visitors you can design a website for free without web hosting on a site like Blogger.com. The difference is that on blogger.com all you have is a blog that might have all the visitors you can handle if you’ve posted your blog on online search engines, but you won’t have the shopping cart feature and the adjoining payment option links.
And, that is what you pay to have an online website hosted by a network of marketing and design professionals like Yahoo.
Sounds really good and the monthly charge is really not that expensive, right? Well, the money that you must be prepared to put out if you are planning on making money from you web hosted website comes from trying to get advertising on search engines. You have to pay monthly fees for search engine optimization. What that means is that if you want your website to come up on the front page of a customer’s search for your product or for your service, you have to pay for online professionals to continually post your website on that front page. There really is no way that you can do it yourself because these marketing search engines are controlled by online marketing professionals. And, they charge monthly for their services.
Web hosting is a means of getting your products and services noticed online. But there is a cost in monthly fees for the web hosting and for the marketing. And, you need a list of customers, or friends to begin your selling campaign otherwise you will have a nicely designed store with all the tools to sell and no customers.
