Massage Websites are an essential part of your massage business. It is important to invest in your website because it is really your best marketing tool. When people search for “massage, your city” and your website comes up on the top of the first pages of the search engine – your marketing efforts are cut in half really. When people who are already looking for massage find your website you already have their interest! It doesn’t get much easier than that! The website system that I use and recommend is called Site Build it! or SBI! You can do it yourself, hire someone at SBI to create your site ($1599-$4000 plus hosting) for you or now hire me!
Basic Starter Package for a massage business website:
- Research your keywords for your website
- Help you choose the best domain name for your website
- Create 6 basic pages for your website – the home page, about me page, massage services, contact, email newsletter and one page of your choice.
- Submit your website to the major search engines
- $600 plus SBI! yearly package for $299 (paid to SBI!)
- This package will require you to learn and use SBI! and to create more pages on your website. I will Leave you with a plan to create 24 more pages. Content and information is what motivates people to call for appointments. It is just a matter of writing down what you say to clients everyday anyway!
- Leave you with a plan for creating backlinks to your website. Getting other websites to link to you will help in your search engine rankings.
- Show you how to get listed on Google and Yahoo! local.
Go Get Clients Package and let my website make me money while I work! (for massage therapy business website)
- Research your keywords for your website
- Help you choose the best domain name for your website
- Create 30 pages for your website including the basic pages- homepage, contact page, about me/us page, services page. (You will actually be writing the content for these pages. I will tell you what to write about and help you write the content. Having more pages will significantly increase your chances of getting to the number one spot on the search engines.
- Set up at least 3-5 affiliate products on pages on your website where you have the potential to make income from your website while you do massage.
- Set up a section for massage therapists in your local area to run meet ups, recommend products (more affiliate income), become a mentor to others and get paid to do so.
- $2000 plus SBI! hosting ($29.99 a month or $299 a year)
- Leave you with a plan to create more pages and add more affiliate products.
- Show you how to update your pages, use your newsletter app and monitor your results
Become an Infopreneur Package – create an informational based website on one of your interests or hobbies and learn to make money online.
- Research topics and help you choose the best topic for your website
- Create a blueprint for your website and layout the structure of your website
- Help find ways you will make money with your website
- Set up the first 30 pages of your website. (You will be writing the content based on the keyword research.)
- Leave you with a plan to create more pages. (A solid income producing website will need 200 or more pages depending on the topic and the way you monetize a website. A website using Adsense to monetize will most likely need over 500 pages at my best guess!)
- Help you get your first 100 backlinks to your website
- Create plan to get more backlinks.
- $2000
I have been doing websites since 1999 and using SBI! since 2002. I don’t do graphics – special headers or images or templates for your site. There are many prebuilt templates included in your website system and more are going to be added soon (hopefully Spring/Summer 2011)
Let me know what questions or comments you have or your ideas for informational websites!
Thanks
Julie Onofrio
www.massagepracticebuilder.com
www.massage-career-guides.com
