Do I have to have a website to start an online business? This is a common question for many starters. The answer is no. There are some ways of making money from the internet: just to name some — taking paid survey, typing job, freelance job, reading emails, etc. But if you are serious to establish an internet business, you should have a presence online.

There are certainly some ways for you to get the presence for free. A good example is Blogs. There are several big reliable blog hosting companies such as wordpress, blogger, facebook etc. It is great to start blogging for testing the market or promote your business, but having your own website is another story. You have absolute control over it, it also defines your presence as a real business.

The good news is you can have your own website set up with free hosting from Google.

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It is easy to sign up an account with google page creator. What you need is only a google mail account which is now free to get. (Not that long ago you had to get an invitation to get the privileged account, but now it is totally for free! ) right is the instruction from the google page creator page.

Your website will look like http://yoursitename.googlepages.com. Decent enough to show the public.

Once you sign up with googlemail, you can access google page creator using your googlemail account data. Once you log in, you can create new pages, you can change the look of your pages. There are over 40 different designs for you to choose from. Here are some examples:

Now it is also OK to embed Adsense code into the pages created by Google Pagecreator. Here is the detailed instruction from Inside Adsense.

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