SEO Startup is designed to help small businesses create and manage their own web sites and, just as crucially, help to get it noticed by search engines.

It comprises a basic Windows-based content management system and a set of tools to design, build and upload that content to a host server. The search engine optimisations are generated and applied automatically and users can choose from a library of preconfigured templates to give a site a professional look and feel.

We found SEO Startup easy to use, with a useful set of video tutorials to point us in the right direction. Having watched these, it took just a few minutes to download and apply a template, create the pages we wanted and type in our content with a simple graphical editor to change font type and size, align text, create simple tables and insert images.

The search engine optimisation is also built in, again requiring users to type in a few keywords to get their site noticed.

Users can only create basic static pages with SEO Startup. However, they can add extra functionality using plug-ins, including an E-Shop module, which allow users to build and manage a basic online store.

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