Aust said:
...that can be googled... and you yourself can edit?
My 2 cents...
The truth is... if you don't know what you are doing & if you aren't able to get some QUALITY inbound links, you can almost forget being found in google for any fairly popular search phrase. Getting the right domain name is very important too.
My advice... do web searchs on this topic & learn as much as you can. Lots of info on the web that teaches all kinds of website related stuff like html code, seo, etc. Most webhosts offer hosting which includes the domain name & quality sitebuilders which include meta tags for about $3-$5 per month. Sometimes free is good & sometimes you don't get what you pay for, but I personally would not go with a free site unless you have fairly low expectations for generating traffic & unless you like advertisements on your site. I'm all for doing your own site yourself, I just would go with a paid host that offers tech support, etc. JMO.
If you do all of that and still get stumped & need help, I'm available to help/consult/etc. for $15 an hour. For next to nothing, I can get you on the right track to being found in the Google searches, etc. I had an SEO Company try to charge me $100 per month for SEO & I doubt that they are that much better at it than I am & I'm alot cheaper! I'm not the best or the most knowledgable, but several sites that I've been affliated with have ranked pretty high in Google for some very popular search phrases. My own cattle site is on track to have 1,800 unique visitors this month. Not as many as some sites, but a lot more than many. However, it's nothing that you can't learn yourself if you do enough research. Thats how I learned.