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What is the easiest way to utilize Go Daddy services and products to create a profitable website?

The first thing you need to do is a have a plan and a product that people want. It could be information or services you provide, software or a physical piece of merchandise you ship to your customers. Next, you need to get the word out about your company. This could be through traditional advertising or word of mouth.

We make all of our products easy to use. More often than not, we have exactly what our customers are looking for to get their presence going online.

How can this be done with little to no investment?

Compared to starting a brick and mortar store, your costs are minimal. If you don't need a shopping cart online, it's as cheap as a domain name and Web site Tonight, which runs as little as $4.99 a month.

If you need a shopping cart, you will invest a little more into your site with Quick Shopping Cart, which starts at $9.99 a month.

So, for about $15 a month, you can be up and selling.

One of the greatest benefits of Go Daddy is that you won't need to go anywhere else to get all your services. We're a one stop shop with 24/7 support, products to make hosting, blogging, and shopping easy, and everything's competitively priced. In terms of hosting, we are the largest shared hosting provider in North America. We offer a wide variety of hosting plans (shared, virtual, dedicated, and most recently, grid hosting). We also have an application exchange for our hosting customers, Hosting Connection, where with one click, you can setup any of 60 popular web applications.

The best elements to consider for site design are ease of navigation, clear and concise text, clear product descriptions and photos, appropriate contact information, customer testimonials, and, of course, general information about your company. If you are conducting commerce, you should get an SSL certificate to secure credit card transactions. Blogging is great way to connect to your customers, but you have to be willing to commit to keeping it updated. Lastly, when building a Web site, make sure you focus on search engine optimization because ranking is vital for obtaining the traffic you need to be successful.

As online merchants mature, more companies are grabbing vanity URLs and bcurious spellings of their domain to protect their identity. One rule of thumb to follow is to ask yourself whether or not you would be upset if someone else bought a particular variation of your domain name. If there answer is yes, the simplest option is to buy it first. One example is gapjeans.com which redirects to gap.com.

You can also incorporate various domain names into your marketing strategy. A creative campaign using a domain name related to your brand can help bring interest to your products. Nuggnuts.com is a current example of a large company (McDonald's) creating a whole site devoted to a single product as part of a marketing campaign with a larger purpose.