A much younger man. Does your husband know? Geesh!

@Jo Ann, what you are wanting to do is easy.
You really only need a partner if the partner has the ability and/or the connections to bring in new customers for web site work and/or hosting. Or that partner is a knowledgeable developer and you are the one with the connections for new work and/or hosting.

Most hosting reseller accounts have a private label set up.
This is what I use at onelakesideweb.com
-- Each person has their own hosting account with their own control panel. As the reseller, I receive commission on each account and have a control panel that allows me to access to all the account holders' control panels. The main host takes care of the billing, but I set the prices and available options in the hosting plans.

or you can simply get an account that allows many domains to be hosted on the account. Then you take care of the billing and set up a folder for each account and an FTP account pointing to each customers folder so they have access.

or you can get a hosting account that allows for many cpanel accounts, which is similar but gives each person their own control panel much like a private label reseller account does. But you do the billing and all the accounts all run on or under 'your' account. You can make more money this way, but you will have to take care of billing inmost cases.

There are many different ways to be a "reseller"..

I am set up like Dave's last example.

Yeah our reseller account is setup with full access to do pretty much whatever we want. We can setup separate accounts for each person with full access to the cPanel or give only partial access to some of the things in the cPanel, etc. My idea is just a small branch of what I want to do, that I want to provide to very small businesses that just need a presense and nothing more elaborate. This way I'm thinking will keep it really simple, I can give them FTP access without dealing with separate accounts and I just create them small little sites that give them a web identity and they don't have to deal with much else on it type thing. Just something to put on their business cards for the most part I guess lol.

My biggest drawback is I'm getting really really really frustrated because I can't even get my own website ranked, listed etc. in Google, Bing, Dmoz etc., and how will I deal with theirs if I can't even get my own working right Just don't get it I guess. But this holds me back on a lot because people will want their sites to be done right and able to be listed and ranked etc.

Anyways I'm ranting, not a good day for all this mess lol.

@Jo Ann, don't feel alone --I have plenty of crummy days, and plenty of good ones too.

Just an idea -food for thought-
You can create a site for your area that has business listings.(your own list site)
The list page has categories.
Each category page would list the businesses and each business has a link to 'their page'.
Their page could be one of your subdomains, but it's not really a 'must'.
Each business could still work on their page using an FTP account to their folder.
Their business page would be what ever they want, like a business card but much more.
Each business page would have it's own 'text' 'content', meta keywords, meta description and so on.
--Lots of this depends on what your business plan is and if they are paying for something and what are they paying for. Are they paying for a account with access, or a listing that you will be creating for them. Maybe membership is xdollars a year and has 3 updates included or xdollars and they do it all. Many people just have no clue about posting content or web pages.

Just for example of business pages, some created by myself and some by the user:
http://buckeyelake.org/user_page/haleys-custom-crafts
http://buckeyelake.org/user_page/terrys … dj-service
http://buckeyelake.org/user_page/pontoon-transport
http://buckeyelake.org/user_page/dons-locksmith

Do you have a google webmaster account. The webmaster account has lots of neat features and I recommend it.
Ranking has a lot to do with 'content', having a good xml sitemap will help too.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/

DMOZ is easy, find the right category and suggest the url.
While your there, see if the category has an editor, if not, consider applying for the job.

I don't know anything about bing and don't care much about it.

The big picture is that we all want to see you and everyone else for that mater have success.

Thanks dave,

yeah that kind of idea is part of it, and the other part is to have separate site entities just not large ones that they have access to the FTP for. Shouldn't be to hard now that I have a better understanding of the redirects via the cpanel.

I have a Google webmaster account, haven't looked at it in a while lol. I've gone through a lot of what was in there for the SEO stuff, but I still have 0 rank. Dmoz I applied for a listing like 2 months ago and Google & Bing at least 3 months ago. According to both WebCEO program and Godaddy's SEO setup called Search Engine Visibility, I have no listing with any of them as of yet. The only ranking so far that they say I have is with Alexa.
I'll have to look more into the editor thing too, I was thinking about that the other day also.

One little thing to keep in mind is the page title since google reads that for sure

maybe start here
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster … ;lev=index
get the site verified
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster … swer=35659
and add a sitemap
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster … wer=156184

Jo,
Lift your head up kid. I had a dark day yesterday as well, but you have to move forward. My philosophy is if you don't understand it - learn it.

Check out my support site. I have an article on SEO. Just real basic. You may already know everything, but it could be a good refresher as well.

You have to remember that with all of the SEO theories out there, no one actually knows its all theory.

The first major thing with SEO is clicks. How many people do you have visiting your site. The second is how many times people google your site and/or are getting to your site from another link source (say a blog). You can code all you want keeping SEO in mind, but those two aspects are huge. This is all you have to convince your clients of. Do your part by coding properly for SEO, then put it on them, not you. You should try to develop a page (for fun) where SEO is all you are concerned about. It is great practice. See how high you can get your page rank.

Just some thoughts.

ps. You have to have a sitemap. then submit the sitemap to google. This is the third huge thing.

Thanks guys,
Yesterday was indeed a dark day without a doubt, ready to hang it up it was that bad. Just get so frustrating because all these places with SEO help, all say this that or the other thing, and I've already done what they are saying isn't there which really gets frustrating, or I just can't figure out what they are talking about in most cases. If you use Web CEO use my site on it, you'll see what I'm talking about, there's a ton of things on there that I just have no clue what they are talking about. A lot I've already done, and things they say are wrong there, other SEO places told me to do LOL. I need a good easy to understand source if anyone has one. I read through a lot of the Google help stuff and that didn't help much either. I don't know, maybe I'm trying to do to much, or maybe I just have no clue LOL.

Anyone know a really cheap SEO person? There's nothing worse than feeling like someone needs to hold your hand through a process, but I guess I'm at that point.

@Eric, yes I did submit my sitemap like 3 months ago or so (created with CC Sitemapper) and need to do a new one soon as I just added a bit more products, but the current one is only about a month old, not even I'm sure. Listed with a lot of search engines, the main ones all say it will take time, but it's been over 3 months for Google and Bing, and at least a 1/2 months for Dmoz & Yahoo. You would think I'd be listed by now. I don't know how you can tell if you're listed or not so... just the SEO setups say I'm not.

Anyways, if anyone knows a really reasonable person that can help with this, I'm at the begging point, I just don't have a lot of cash to spend and the last price request I asked for blew me away at 700 bux, ya right, I'll get right on that, especially since half the stuff they listed as what they will do, I have done already lol. Seriously not good.

Ok ranting again, not a bad day just a day where I guess I finally have to ask for help.
Thanks for letting me get it all out guys lol and most definitely for all your help too.

I will help for free. I do advertise SEO on my website for 100.00, but I don't want to charge you, I would rather help - If you want it. I am not sure how much you already know, but it does not hurt to give it a try. If you are interested contact me through my website with your return phone number and best times this weekend or in the evenings to reach you and I will give you a call. Also, check out my SEO guide on my website. Its real basic but it does explain how search engines work and stuff.

Here to help.

Eric