How to Make a Contact Information Page

To make your contact information page, the first step is to decide how you want to be contacted.

By e-mail
By telephone
By direct mail
By contact form

E-mail

E-mail – is an easy way to be contacted and one that protects your privacy. You can use an e-mail service such as Gmail, Thunderbird or Yahoo Mail. These mail sources are simple to get and easy to change.

When you use a hosting account like Hostgator, you have access to e-mail accounts. These are nice because you can create an address like “yourname@yourwebsite.com”. It is debated that this is best because it makes your site look more legitimate as opposed to free e-mail accounts.

Two ways to protect your e-mail from spam crawlers.

1. Use the word (dot) in you e-mail address. This seems to be the simplest way. For example: sheila@newbielifeline(dot)com .

2. Use a free service to set up a contact form for your site. Protect your private e-mail address but keep yourself open for public communication. The link is as simple as http://yourname.reachby.com

Telephone

This is simple and can be done with a telephone line you dedicate to your business and answer yourself. But consider the time that this would take. Or just Google “answering service”, these have a fee attached. This works well, for sites with large readership or contacts that need to be directly handled.

Direct Mail

This is easy to set up and still protect your privacy. Your local mail box company such as “Mail Boxes Etc.” have post office boxes you can rent, yet you have a street address you can post on your contact page.

Contact Form

As said before this can be done with Reachby.com, a free service that is easy to set up. It makes a clean contact information page.

On WordPress? There is a plugin for contact forms. My next post will be on using this plugin.

Take a look at other blogs to see what you think will work best for you and what you think your readers would like to use. Using an e-mail address works well for me.

Neil Patel of QuickSprout.com gives you three options. His contact information really shows how interested Neil is in hearing from you.

Whether you are into blogging, Internet niche marketing, or affiliate marketing, make a contact information page. It is important to your readers and to the search engines. Keep it simple and legit. Relationships marketing should be a part of every marketing plan. Your readers will appreciate being able to contact you. And you’ll be surprised at how many do.

Sheila

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