The good news is you don’t have to be a master business website builder to create your business website, and not every start-up can afford to spend money on a professionally built website. You can use these free and easy to use simple website builders to give your company a digital presence with all the basic tools you need to get up-and-running. Plus you can get some free blogs and some free press releases to build backlinks. On the otherhand, if you just want to create some free blogs for your company or your private business, there are many ways to publish a website or blog for free. We present our top 10 free places to do so. The downside to these free services is that your new website will be on a subdomain of well know free website host. It is not the best impression to make, and your SEO will suffer because of it. At Eleven Dimensions, we love these services because we can host our technical blogs and point our customers there for quick advice to resolve a technical issue.

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Quality Backlinks are one of the important scoring factors in your domain and brands ranking with google, bing and yandex. The best way to get them is to build blogs all over the place with useful information in them with links pointing back to your own website.

1 WordPress.com

WordPress is still a small business favorite, and for good reason. WordPress is one of the easiest building platforms for beginners, and it offers some of the Web’s most well-designed free templates. WordPress also comes with a wide selection of free analytics and SEO tools that make it fairly simple to keep track of how your site is performing. WordPress’s little brother is blogspot.com, which hosts a similar service for bloggers. Bearing all that in mind, it’s little wonder around one in five sites on the Internet are now constructed using WordPress. One disadvantage or WordPress.com is that you cannot change the default permalink assigned to blog posts, you alway will have YYYY/MM/post title. That’s not very SEO friendly at all. The other disadvantage of wordpress.com over blogger.com is that you cannot edit the HTML code in your templates. You cannot add meta data lines for google analytics or google search.

2. Weebly

Weebly has been around for a while, and so it’s definitely one of the most popular website builders out there. There are no hidden costs involved in constructing a new website — and although premium and ecommerce versions do exist, a vast majority of small businesses are unlikely to need them. Weebly’s top feature is its intuitive, drag-and-drop interface that makes Web creation dead simple for even the most IT-challenged individuals.

3. Jimdo

Jimdo is another well-established website builder, and is quite useful for those who are a little bit more comfortable with coding. Jimdo enables users to create free, mobile-friendly HTML5 sites. The platform’s top strength is its free online store as most website builders tend to charge an arm and a leg for this feature. Jimdo also offers a generous 500MB of storage and great customer support.

4. Emyspot

emyspot is an all-encompassing website builder with an attractive range of free features. A small business site on emyspot has got no page limit, and enjoys use of a blog and unlimited bandwidth. Meanwhile, the platform’s free version offers a generous 250MB worth of storage. Dynamic ecommerce templates are available for an additional fee.

5. Diigo

Another free blogging platform. It’s at www.diigo.com

6. Plurk

Another free blogging platform. its plurk.com

7. Doodlekit

DoodleKit offers some of the best editing functionality of any free website builder. Although its free version is limited, it does enable you to create a site up to five pages in under five minutes. You can also take advantage of the site’s free blogging platform, which is an immensely useful tool in order to expand your brand’s digital profile. DoodleKit includes a range of great design templates and hosts a useful forum that can help to inspire you when constructing your own site.

8 Zoho

Zoho Sites is another useful drag-and-drop editor. It’s a crystal clear building tool, and includes an ecommerce upgrade that is fully integrated with PayPal. The platform’s top feature is definitely its form builder. Users can take advantage of an unprecedented level of fields. Including drop-downs, URLs and file uploads. Zoho is also our favourite free CRM service. You can store your leads, contacts, opportunities there, and when you are ready to move up to the big time, you can upgrade to unleash it’s enterprise features.

Before committing to a website builder, you should always do your homework. After all, no two businesses are alike, and so you’ve got to come up with an idea of what it is you’re after in a website. Plus you have to consider its effect on your SEO and your search appearance, and ranking. But once you’ve figured that out, it doesn’t matter what industry you’re operating in or how comfortable you are with the Web. There’s definitely a website builder out there that’s perfect for you and your small business.

9. Blogger.com

Our all time favourite. We love blogger because it’s so easy to use. Websites that are built on blogger may often have the .blogspot.com domain. Our own blog is located at homoslice.blogspot.com. On blogspot, you build true blogs not websites. Plus you can add them to google search console and google analytics. Here’s an example of another blog that we maintain for the world famous Dareen Hakim Collection’s line of handbags, purses, bags, clutches and other women’s fashion accessories. With blogger and its blogspot domain, you can host an important accessory to your business website. A blog is a great way to keep your customers updated on all sorts of rapidly changing topics.

10. California Business Directory

Get a free backlink and a free listing for your business. Backlinks are never free, except at the California Business Directory.

11. Free Press Releases to Promote Your Business

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By Mike Martin | July 9, 2019 | In Branding, business websites, CRM, Digital Marketing, SEO, web server, Wordpress | Leave a comment |

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