By Gene Schwerman

 You know you need a website for your business but your budget is tiny, however, your aspirations are large, so what do you do? Your very best bet is to build a cheap custom website, then add inexpensive SEO! You need a cheap website because you are going to need the Cheap SEO in order for people to find you! So you want to have the SEO money available once your cheap website is up on the internet!


You want to get your organic clicks and backlinks building from your cheap SEO, then as you begin to get clicks and sales from your cheap website, you can reinvest some of your profits into creating the more dramatic, more dynamic website you wished you could afford from the beginning. The real key is being very judicious in how and where you spend your small budget.

You still may not be able to afford continuing SEO and major web design changes, so you juggle the dollars at your disposal to keep the cheap SEO going and therefore the clicks growing and at the very same time you begin tweaking your cheap website to make it look more appealing and allow it to function more fully in support of your business.

While the economy is still very tough many web designers are willing to work for less than they once charged. So even with a very small budget you can get a cheap website on the net. Be sure to resist the temptation of building a template site, as a template site will always eventually restrict your web opportunities and cause you to have to limit your web options or sometimes even completely start over.

By beginning with a cheap website which is fully custom and adding inexpensive SEO you have created the additional huge advantage of quick ROI! Accelerating the return on your investment is the most important single step to web growth unless your budget is large. Assuming you have now built a cheap website, added cheap SEO and now achieved quick ROI, you simply continue the cheap SEO, continue improving the site and continually expand the amount of your income that moves to the bottom line while still growing the site and the overall number of visits to the site.

The most difficult portion of this entire formula to find will almost surely be the cheap SEO. Search engine optimization is not easy and therefore it is rarely cheap! You must be realistic in evaluating your cheap SEO and find an SEO provider who can give you cheap aggressive SEO which really works. If you find cheap SEO that doesn't work both well and relatively quickly, the formula doesn't work either or the results are delayed.

So you should either locate your cheap SEO provider first or perhaps you can find a web provider willing to discount both his SEO package and his already cheap website design, if you give him all of your web design business. Perhaps, if you search Google for cheap websites and cheap SEO together, you might be on the right track.

Just remember, this is a formula, the results you get by mixing the ingredients in the formula will be altered by the quality of the ingredients as well as your skill in mixing them. Also remember, unlike a formula in a laboratory, this is not a test. You absolutely can not be too thorough in picking your ingredients or in making the proper mix. I can only tell you that if you do indeed get it right, you will be well on your way to internet prosperity!

Gene Schwerman is founder and head marketing consultant for Truly Unique Website Design. Truly Unique offers cheap website design and cheap SEO services.