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Hosting plans and costs
The cost for a custom domain is separate from the cost of hosting a site. However, you can create a Websites + Marketing site for free and host it on GoDaddy without purchasing a custom domain. (Back to top)
- Compare plans and pricing
- Upgrade my plan
- Downgrade my plan
- Upgrade my website from the free trial
- Manage my mobile app store purchase
Site management
Publish, backup, restore or connect your site to your custom domain. (Back to top)
- Publish my Websites + Marketing site
- Unpublish my Websites + Marketing site
- Back up my website
- Restore my Websites + Marketing site from a previous backup
- Reset my Websites + Marketing site
- Connect my Websites + Marketing site to a domain
- Connect my Websites + Marketing site to a GoDaddy domain I already own
- Connect my Websites + Marketing site to a domain registered outside of GoDaddy
- Connect my Websites + Marketing site to a new domain
- Understanding domain setup error messages
- Back up, restore and prepare for disaster recovery
Settings
Change the basics on your site like theme, colors, fonts, logo and favicon. (Back to top)
- Set up my Websites + Marketing site
- Build my website
- Change my website's theme
- Change my site profile
- Choose my website's color
- Choose fonts and font sizes for my website
- Add my logo to my website header
- Add a favicon to my website
- Change the background of my Coming Soon page
Analytics and search engine optimization (SEO)
Use cookies and other methods of tracking your site visitors to see who's visiting your site (and keep everything legal). (Back to top)
- Allow website visitors to set cookie and tracking preferences
- Add a privacy policy to my website
- Privacy FAQs
- Add Google Analytics to my site
- Add Meta Pixel to my website
- Improve my website's SEO
Site security
Even though security is included with your Websites + Marketing site, you can still help when you create good passwords and set up two-step verification. (Back to top)
- Set up passwords and two-step verification
- Secure my website
- Monitor and scan my site
- Secure payments
Online presence basics
Get your online presence started with a collection of articles with everything you need to get online quickly and completely. (Back to top)
- Get online with Websites + Marketing
- Get to know Websites + Marketing
- Set up my visual brand
- Personalize my home page
- Customize content
- Make my website easy to find using SEO
- Connect to social media
Pages and navigation
Add pages to your site, and use the page settings to adjust your navigation. (Back to top)
- Add a page to my site
- Delete a page from my website
- Change a page name and settings on my website
- Reorder pages in my navigation menu
- Duplicate a page on my website
- Manage private website pages
- Add a dropdown menu to my website
- Change my Websites + Marketing site's footer
Sections
The first section on your home page is a special section called your Header. It can be customized but can't be deleted. The rest of your site is yours to create! (Back to top)
- Add a section to my Websites + Marketing site
- Delete a section from my website
- Reorder sections in my website
- Change section layouts
- Edit content in a section or section group
- Duplicate a section in my website
- Move a section to another page
Here are articles that help with some of our specific section types:
- Customize my Contact Us section
- Update my Websites + Marketing contact email
- Change the display of my social media buttons
- What to include in my About section
- Add reviews to my website
- Add a PayPal button to my website
- Add GoFundMe to my site
- Add an Online Store section to my website
- Add an Online Appointments section
- Add downloadable files and PDF viewer
- Add HTML or custom code to my site
- Troubleshoot: HTML or custom code not displaying properly
- Add menu or price list
- Add restaurant reservation with OpenTable
- Add MLS/IDX real estate listings to my site
- Add a SoundCloud audio track or playlist to my website
Calendars
In addition to the Calendar section, you can display calendars on your site from various sources. (Back to top)
- Show a public calendar on my website
- Display a calendar on my website
- Share a Google calendar on my website
- Share my Yahoo calendar
- Share my Outlook calendar on my website
Text and buttons
Text and buttons are incorporated into nearly every section, and we have some help for editing text and buttons in general. (Back to top)
Photos and images
Create awesome professional-looking images without any design skills needed in the Content Creator, then use them on your site or in social media posts. (Back to top)
- Understand GoDaddy Studio and Content Creator
- Sign in to GoDaddy Studio
- Create a social media or website image
- Add or replace a photo on my website
- Replace cover photo with solid color
- Edit a photo on my website
- Add or change my website's photo gallery
- Link a photo to a webpage
Video
Add videos from YouTube and Vimeo to your site. Take advantage of GoDaddy's partnership with Vimeo to create your own customized videos. (Back to top)
- Add a video to my website header
- Header video best practices
- Add a video section to my Websites + Marketing site
- Use Vimeo videos in Websites + Marketing
- Connect my GoDaddy account to Vimeo
- Create a customized video
- Choose my video end-screen options
- Add a livestream video feed
Facebook and Instagram
Connect your site to Facebook and Instagram for social posts, shoppable posts, booking appointments, boosted posts, and paid advertisements. (Back to top)
- Connect my Facebook business page to my GoDaddy account
- Connect my professional Instagram account to my Facebook business Page
- Connect Instagram to my GoDaddy account
- Create a social media post
- Reset my Facebook connection
- Disconnect my site from a Facebook business page
Connect your products and services to Facebook catalog for online selling.
- Connect my online store to Facebook and Instagram
- Add Meta Pixel to my website
- Create a shoppable Facebook post
- Create a shoppable Instagram post
- Book online appointments from Facebook and Instagram
- Set a temporary closure for my business on Facebook, Yelp and Google Business Profile
Learn more about boosted posts and paid advertisements, whether you do it yourself or hire us to help.
- Understand Facebook boosted posts and ads
- Boost a Facebook Post
- Request social posts for my Websites + Marketing site using Marketing Services
- Set up social ads
- Set up a social ad campaign for my Websites + Marketing site
Google services not only help you get found in search but also helps your store get found on maps and your products get found when your customers are shopping. (Back to top)
- Add Google Analytics to my site
- Add Google AdSense to my website
- Create a social media post
- Set up a Google Smart Campaign
- See the status of my Google Smart Campaign
Connect to Google Business Profile and get found by people searching for you on Google Maps.
- Is my business eligible?
- Why my business information may be rejected for a Google Business profile
- Connect my Business Profile on Google
- Set a temporary closure for my business on Facebook, Yelp and Google Business Profile
Connect your products and services to Google Channel for online selling.
- Understanding Google Channel and Performance Max campaigns
- Connect to Google Channel
- Google Channel policy requirements
- Troubleshooting Google Channel disapproval
- Create a Google Performance Max campaign
- Manage my Google Performance Max campaign and metrics
Other social media
Connect your site to other social media like Facebook and Yelp to extend your reach. (Back to top)
- Create a social media post
- List my business on Yelp
- Set a temporary closure for my business on Facebook, Yelp and Google Business Profile
- Track social performance and scheduled posts
Customers, members and subscribers
Connect with and manage your customers (people who buy your products or sign up for events or appointments), members (people you give access to private pages), and subscribers (people on your email marketing list). (Back to top)
- Allow my site's customers to create accounts
- Add website members one at a time
- Add website members
- Change contact information for my website members
- Delete website members
- Add marketing email subscribers
- Change my email marketing signup form
- Add email subscribers manually
- Import email subscribers from a .csv file
- Organize email subscribers into a list
Conversations and messaging
Use Conversations and messaging to communicate with your customers (Back to top)
Banners and pop-ups
Get your customers' attention with promotional banners and pop-up boxes. (Back to top)
Email marketing
Send marketing email to your customers to help them get to know, like and trust you. (Back to top)
- Add marketing email subscribers
- Change my email marketing signup form
- Add email subscribers manually
- Import email subscribers from a .csv file
- Organize email subscribers into a list
Here are the steps to creating and sending a marketing email from start to finish:
- Create and send marketing emails
- Compose a marketing email
- Add content to my marketing email
- Change the look of my marketing email
- Add recipients to my marketing email
- Finalize details and send my marketing email
Blog
Create and manage blog posts, then tailor content with categories. (Back to top)
- Add a blog to my website
- Create blog posts
- Create or change blog categories
- Remove a blog section from my site
- Change the way my blog looks on my site
- Delete or remove a post from my blog
- Create multiple blogs on my site
- Add a video and images to a blog post
- Send blog post snippets via email
Payments and transactions
Give people a way to give you money from PayPal and GoFundMe to GoDaddy Payments, Square and Stripe. (Back to top)
- Add a PayPal button to my website
- Add GoFundMe to my site
- Set up payment methods for my Websites + Marketing Online Store
- Set up payment for online appointments
- Set up an offline payment method
- Accept online payment
- Connect GoDaddy Payments to my bank account
- Sign in to the Payments Hub from Websites + Marketing
- Set up GoDaddy Payments on Websites + Marketing
- Secure payments
- Create coupons
- Add a digital gift card
Online appointments
Let people schedule appointments with you or buy tickets to an event, in person or online. (Back to top)
- Add online appointment services
- Add an Online Appointments section
- Set up payment for online appointments
- Sync appointments with my personal calendar
- Block time in Online Appointments
- Enable customers to reschedule services
- Add a customer to an appointment or event
- Change a customer’s existing appointment or event
- Change an online appointment or event location
- Add a staff member to online appointments
- Delete staff members from your online appointments
- Book online appointments from Facebook and Instagram
Online store
Add your products to your online store to sell on your website, then connect your store to other ways to sell through Marketplaces. (Back to top)
- Add an Online Store section to my website
- Get my store published
- Move an existing store to Websites + Marketing
- Change my business information
- What can't I sell on my site?
- Set up taxes
- Automate tax rules by ZIP Code
- Toggle tax collection per product
- Access Commerce Reports
- Set up text message alerts for my Online Store
- Enable customer product reviews with Yotpo
- Connect my online store to Facebook and Instagram
- Create a shoppable Facebook post
- Create a shoppable Instagram post
- Connect to Google Channel
Products and inventories
Once you have your digital or physical items added to your store, give your customers choices with add-ons and options. Then organize your products with categories to better manage your products and inventory. (Back to top)
- Add digital products
- Add physical products
- Add products to my online store
- Add product options in my online store
- Create add-ons to a product
- Working with option and choice limits
- Add product categories
- Set up featured products
- Manage my online store inventory
- Export my online store products into a .csv file
- Format my online store product spreadsheet
- Import products from a .csv file
- Edit products in my online store
Orders and shipping
Track your orders coming in, and any shipments you make going out. (Back to top)
- Enable abandoned cart recovery
- Customize my order and appointment confirmation emails
- Print orders from my online store
- Fulfill and ship my orders
- Update my ShipEngine account
- What is ShipEngine?
- Add package shipping weight and dimensions
- Change my shipping methods
Marketplaces
Use Marketplaces to connect your store to other places you can sell, like Amazon and eBay. Then manage everything from one location. (Back to top)
- Understanding Online Store Marketplaces
- Sell my products on Marketplaces
- Set up Marketplaces templates
- Set up Marketplaces recipes
- Apply a Marketplaces template or recipe to existing product listings
- Connect to Google Channel
Hire us to help you
We are here for you, and can help you with your website, social media content and ad campaigns. (Back to top)
- Set up my Marketing Services plan
- Hire professionals to help with your logos, websites, social media and SEO
- Make a website request for my Websites + Marketing site
- Set up a social ad campaign for my Websites + Marketing site
- Request social posts for my Websites + Marketing site using Marketing Services
- Request social media posts
- Set up a digital ad campaign
Other Websites + Marketing help articles
Take a moment and join a live webinar, watch videos, or take a free Websites + Marketing training course. (Back to top)