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🖥️ Essentials For Building A Website
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items Whether you need a website for your new business, or you want to start a blog, these are my favourite tools that I've used over the years
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💻 Hosting & Themes
📌 Plugins
👩💻 SEO & Marketing
🛠️ Other Tools & Resources
💻 Hosting & Themes
The foundations of any great website start with their hosting and themes (the bit that makes them look pretty 😉)
After switching and changing for years, I finally found Lyrical and never looked back! Amazing service and fast website loading
Web Hosting Made Beautiful - Lyrical Host
Don't get bogged down with Wix or SquareSpace - go selfhosted from the get go for easier route to monetisation
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS - WordPress.org
Our go-to theme for website building. Easy drag and drop designs, set templates and a fast responding Facebook support group
Avada - The #1 Selling Website Builder for WordPress
Easy and reliable domain name purchases
Domain Names, Websites, Hosting & Online Marketing Tools - GoDaddy
📌 Plugins
These are little extras that you can use to help your website run smoothly and mean you don't have to faff with coding!
Get a helping hand with your optimisation through RankMath. I also use this for doing URL redirects.
Rank Math - SEO Analyzer
Add WooCommerce to your website if you want to start selling digital products or physical items
WooCommerce
this helps you turn affiliate links into pretty custom domain ones!
Pretty Links | Custom Link Shortener, Branded Link Management
Sometimes you're going to have to add code to your header/footer - the WPCode plugin makes this super easy!
WPCode - The Best WordPress Code Snippets Plugin
👩💻 SEO & Marketing
Once you have your website, you're going to want people to be able to find you! That's where your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and marketing comes in!
Learn how to master SEO with Nina's amazing course!
6 Months to 50k Sessions SEO Strategy Masterclass
Who doesn't love a spreadsheet? These make tracking your keywords and other essential things really easy
SEO Spreadsheets
Email marketing can be a game changer for small businesses. Get weekly inspiration and help with setting up a welcome sequence that converts (seriously - Liz's methods have really boosted newsletter engagement for me!)
Email Marketing Membership
Find out how to turn a Facebook group into a highly engaged automated money maker!
Group Growth Accelerator
Most industries rely on Google Analytics data as their standard for tracking growth
Analytics Tools & Solutions for Your Business - Google …
The best tool for finding keywords for blog posts and on page SEO
KeySearch: Affordable Keyword Research Tool | SEO Analysis & Difficulty Checker
The best YouTube for everything SEO - I think I binged her whole channel within a day or two when I first started getting my teeth into this side of marketing
She Knows SEO YouTube
Another huge name in the online world, Neils resources have been really handy over the years. Including his keyword tool, Ubersuggest
Neil Patel: Helping You Succeed Through Online Marketing!
🛠️ Other Tools & Resources
All the other little bits you might need when running a website!
If you sell products, the easy affiliate programme helps you create affiliate links so your customers can earn a commission on every sale the help you get
WordPress Affiliate Plugin for WoooCommerce | Easy Affiliate
Learn how to use ChatGPT and custom GPTs to make running your business or blog easier
GPT Sales System
I've spent so much time on this site over the years. Their blogs and guides break things down into bite size pieces so that beginners and non-tech-savvy people can understand it too!
Beginner's Guide for WordPress
A fun way to grow your newsletter!
Quiz Your Way to 10k Subscribers