How to Make a Free Website for Your Business or Your Work

A free website is worth making if people can find it, read it on a phone and do something on it. Most free plans get you the first two. The third one, taking a payment or a booking or an enquiry, is where free plans tend to stop, and it is the part that turns a visit into business.

This post covers what to check before you pick a free website builder, then walks through making one on Keepp from an empty page to a live link.

What to check before you start

The address. A free website usually lives on the builder’s address, something like keepp.link/yourname. That is fine for a bio, a business card or a Google listing. If you want your own domain later, check it is available on a paid plan, so you can move up without starting again. On Keepp, a custom domain comes with Pro.

Whether it can take money. If you sell anything or take deposits, check that the free plan has a real checkout on the page, and find out where the money goes. On Keepp, checkout runs through your own Stripe account. The money lands there, and Keepp takes 5% of a sale on the free plan.

Whether people can book you. If your work runs on appointments, a free website that only shows a phone number leaves you answering calls to arrange times. Look for a booking calendar that shows your real availability.

How it looks on a phone. Most people will open your website from a link on their phone. Open the builder’s examples on yours before you sign up.

How long it stays free. Some builders give you 14 days. Keepp’s free plan has no end date and asks for no card.

How to make a free website on Keepp

1. Claim your name

Go to keepp.link and type the name you want. Your website lives at keepp.link/thatname. Claiming your page walks through it.

2. Start from a template

Pick a template close to what you do, such as a salon, a café, a coach or a portfolio. Each one starts with a layout, colours, fonts and pictures that fit that kind of business, and you change anything you want after. If you have nothing in mind, portfolio and personal page templates shows a few.

3. Fill in who you are

Add your name, a photo or logo, and a line about what you do. Setting up your profile covers this.

4. Add what people come for

A Keepp website is built from blocks. Each block does one job: a product with checkout, a booking calendar, a menu or price list, a map with your opening hours, a chat that answers visitors’ questions, links to your socials. Add the ones you need and drag them into order. Choosing the right block helps if you are not sure which.

You can also describe a change in plain words, such as “add my opening hours under the map”, and the editor makes it. That is free for your first day on Keepp.

5. Connect Stripe if you take payments

Connecting Stripe takes a few minutes and is a one-time step. After that, products and paid bookings on your page take real payments.

6. Make it look like you

Change the colours, fonts, corners and background to match your brand. Styling your page goes through each setting.

Publish and your website is live. Put the link in your social bios, your email signature and your Google Business Profile. Putting your link in your bio has the details for each platform.

Once it is live

Check your analytics after the first week to see how people arrive and what they open. Change what is not working. A one-page website is quick to edit, so it is worth keeping it current: new prices, this month’s hours, the product you just made.

If you need more than one page later, read when a small business needs a multi-page website.

Make your free website on Keepp. It takes no card and has no trial clock.