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Free Website tools for DIY websites, no coding or technical knowledge needed. If your building and/or maintaining your own website then get your free resources here.

The free Plug-ins are for  WordPress websites.

Website Building

The following are free websites and you need no coding knowledge to use them.

The Google Website  Builder

Free one page business website from Google.

Google claim you can have your website built and published in under 10 minutes.

Google will publish it, host it & take care of the SEO for you. It automatically updates with info on your Google listing.

Restrictions: It is limited to one page. You need to be registered with Google my business (it's free), which you should be anyway as part of good SEO practices.

You need to buy your own domain name.

Free websites from SITE123

Not the most versatile but this is the easiest to use of the stock website building sites.

You get a free website, free domain name and free hosting plus great support. A totally free package to get your personal or business website online.

Restrictions: Your website will have .site123.me tagged on to the domain (our demo site is www.mekatrig.site123.me) you get 500GB storage and 1GB bandwidth (traffic allowance), more than enough to get your website up and running

If you decide to keep using Site123 you can upgrade to one their paid plans later on, you lose the .site123.me tag and get more storage & bandwidth.

Free Websites from WordPress.com

WordPress is the worlds most popular CMS (Content Management System) that's the software that enables you to create, maintain and publish websites, it powers over a third of all websites in the world and best of all, it is open source (free to use for everybody).

WordPress has 2 divisions, (you can read more about these here). WordPress .com gives you a free website builder, free hosting and a free domain name, no hidden fees, no strings attached.

Your site will automatically have HTTPS security protocols giving your visitors added security and confidence..

Restrictions: Your website will have .wordpress.com tagged on to the domain  our demo site is www.mekatrig.wordpress.com.

You get 3Gb storage with no bandwidth (traffic) restrictions. Upgrade to a paid plan and lose the .wordpress.com tag and get access to more powerful tools to help make your website better.

WordPress.org

The choice if you are serious about building and owning a bespoke world-class website. Mercedes, Sony, UPS, Usain Bolt and hundreds of flagship companies and world celebrities all use WordPress.

Choose one of the thousands of free themes and your WordPress.org site can be launched in 5 minutes, then customise it at your leisure.

While the website and all the lovely WordPress tools are free  you need to buy your own domain name and pay for your own  hosting. See our store for some great deals on domain names, hosting and other web services.

Building a world-class website is a lot easier than you may think and thousands of pounds cheaper than using a web design company, See our guide on using WordPress,

Restrictions: None! its your website you have total control, no restrictions and can do anything you like with it.

NB: WordPress comes with over 54000 free plugins, these are apps you can add to the website to make it do loads of wonderful things, there are thousands more scaled down free versions (lite) of paid for plugins (premium).

It's easy to overdo it and add hundreds of plugins to your website, this will bloat it and slow it down, so think carefully about what you want to do and if you really need  a plugin for it.

Many plugins can be avoided with some very simple coding, so check You Tube first for alternatives.

Page Building Tools

If you're using WordPress.com it comes with its own default  page builder called Gutenberg, there are plenty of how to use it videos online. If you don't like it you can turn it off and  the WordPress classic page builder instead.

While the WordPress page builders are very good  there are other free page building tools available. with a lot more built-in tools.

These plugins mean you can create professional page layouts quickly using simple drag and drop  without using any code see our article on WordPress page building tools.

We find the best free ones are:

Page builder by Site origin.

Extremely powerful, easy to use and loaded with features to make page building quick and easy,

Elementor

The lite version is free and allows you to build a pretty good website, for a more advanced build you can boost it by using the many free plug-in add ons.

If you really like it  you can upgrade to  the paid premium version.

Logo Making Tools

You can get Logos designed for under £5 at  Fiverr, or you can use the free tools here to make your own

These two online tools are easy & intuitive to use, they have graphics and font libraries and are great for simple effective logos. Make your logo, download to your desktop and use.

Cool Text Graphics Generator

Free online logo maker tool

This one is a downloadable tool which allows you to use your own graphics and images to produce a high quality professional  logo. Please note the free version is for non commercial use only.

Jetta Logo Designer

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)

There are dozens of  'free' tools online to help you do more advanced SEO but unless you have time to do the work focus on basic SEO and doing it well

Our articles Managing Your Own SEO, and Do your own SEO for free show you to get good organic (not paid for) growth, which will be responsible for more than 60% of your traffic.

Here is the tool kit to get you started:

SEO Guides

Googles own beginners guides

Download the Google  quick 1 page guide for  basic SEO

Download  the Google  Search Engine Optimisation Starter guide

SEO for beginners course 

Is a free 16 part video tutorial by experts showing everything you need to get started with  and carry out your own SEO in an easy to follow format.

HOBO UK SEO - A Beginners Guide

This 340 page book is probably the best independent free beginners guide available.

Webmaster Tools for SEO

Google & Bing, want good websites as the better their search engines run, the more people will use them and the more money they will make.

They have developed some very powerful tools to help you  get  the very best performance your website, from analyzing visitor data, checking indexing status and optimizing  visibility to testing page load speeds (and telling you how to fix any problems).

These are some of the most powerful tools available and free for anyone to use.

If you are doing your own SEO and marketing it is vital to use these  suites of tools.

• Submit your site to Google Webmaster Tools here     (Now called Google Search Console)
• Submit your site to Bing Webmaster Tools here

You can submit your website to Google search console then use Bings import wizard to quickly copy the data, this saves you submitting everything twice

 

Other SEO Tools

 

Yoast SEO plug-in.  

With a WordPress website there are a choice of free SEO plugins to help you things right.

We recommend Yoast, it's the most poplar and used by over 5 million WordPress sites.

The instructions may seem complex and they use techie jargon  to explain how it works, don't let this put you off.

Once installed you can safely ignore the techie speak as it is incredibly  easy to use and will help you to get the on page SEO basics right as you write your content.

XML Sitemap & Google News feeds.

Plugin for WordPress. Search engines  need a site map submitted to them so they can index your pages , this is more Google friendly than the  one provided by Yoast  and includes a news feed.

We suggest turning off the Yoast sitemap feature and using this simple free sitemap builder instead.

Once it is installed follow the simple instructions to submit your sitemap to Google.

Google Analytics

This is a must have tool!

The free web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports all aspects of your website traffic (your metrics).

It is the most widely used web analytics service on the internet and the most important tool for tracking and analysing the performance and metrics of your website.

GAinWP Google Analytics Integration for WordPress plugin

This will install your Google analytics tracking data on all your website pages and install a handy dashboard into your WordPress dashboard so you can watch your metrics from there.

Install after setting up your Google Analytics account.

Website Audit Tools

Checkbot site check tool

This is a Google Chrome extension which will check your website, indentify issues and make suggestions to repair them, very easy to use but only works in the Chrome browser

Google Web Developers site check tool

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Type in your website and it will give you a shed load of information, and suggest improvements.

As it's aimed at developers there is a lot of jargon, so if you use it set aside time to do some reasearch into what each term means.

Not everything it  throws up will need fixing! if it seems too complex then skip using it.

Varvy SEO tool

A great free resource for seeing how your website operates is across the board. Easy to read results and plenty of free tools to help repair problems.

Keyword Planning Tools

Google AdWords

As you do SEO you find that keywords,the words people enter into search engines when they are looking for stuff are very important, see more in our article What are keywords.

Google AdWords has a Keyword planner that shows  you how many times a month your chosen words have been searched for and suggests alternatives.

Open a free account, you will find the tool in section 2. Choose a target audience, Keywords. Enter your  keywords and see the projected amount of search terms for that word for the month, hit the see more button for suggested alternatives.

Moz Keyword Explorer

Moz do a suite of very powerful and expertly crafted professional SEO tools, they allow you to do  20 free queries a month on their keyword planner, more than enough if your running a site with just a few pages and a twice a week  blog.

Google Trends

An interesting tool which gives regional and global trends in what people are searching for and the search terms they are using to find it.

Enter your chosen keywords to whose using them and what areas they are coming from, not so much a planning tool more an ideas generator.

 

Site Performance Checking Tools

To identify and solve issues with your page loading speed use:

GTMetrix

Google PageSpeed insights

Broken link checker

Xenus Link Sleuth

Submitting your website to search engines.

Not really necessary nowadays as the search engine web crawling bots will find you, but submitting them does no harm and it is free.

Never pay to have your website submitted at best it's unneccessary at worst its a scam

Submit here (No need to submit to Yahoo as they are powered by Bing)

• Submit my Site To Google

• Submit my Site To Bing

• Submit my site to Yandex

• Submit my website to Baidu

Online Marketing

 

The beginners book to online marketing 

We do our very best to show you how to work out an affordable digital strategy and online marketing plan for your business but sometimes affordable is still too much

Circumstances and budget limitations mean free is  what you need, so we have targeted the very best free guide to DIY online marketing.

The Beginners guide to online marketing is written by Neil Patel (one of the 'Marketing Gods’ of the internet) & Ritika Puri. This book could sell for £50+ and still be great value.

Neil, being an absolutely brilliant person, as well as a marketing genius is giving it away for free as a tool to help others achieve what he has.

Who is Neil Patel?

Neil is giving away this fantastic guide free, even if you do have a paid marketing package in place it’s still worth reading.

You can no loinger download a copy from Neils website, Quicksprout, but may be able to get to download it as a PDF file from SCRIBD

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