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The Internet - a Numbers Game.... - Richard Grady
If you take a close look at this 'working online' business, you will see that it is quite simply a numbers game (this is actually the case with most if not all businesses). At the most basic level, building a successful website is just a matter...
Know this before you start your home business - Arun Pal Singh
Copyright © 2005 Arun Pal Singh As 2005 dawns on earth I am quite thoughtful. Many persons started their business in 2004. Some succeeded and some left disappointed. This New Year would bring many new home entrepreneurs to the net. How many of...
Avoid Needless Back Pain--Use Care When Choosing Your Office Chair - Larry Denton
Sitting at your desk can be hazardous to your health. Office workers often spend seven hours a day seated, and using the wrong chair can reduce their efficiency by causing pain in the back, arms, wrist and literally--in the neck. If you leave your...
A beginner’s guide to setting up a successful online store - mukesh
Online selling is by no means a simple task. To sell products online not only requires making use of high end marketing strategies but also involves lots of planning. This article is meant for those of you who intent to start an online store. It is...
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How to Make the Most of Your Home Internet Based Business Opportunity in the Search Engines
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Adrian Austin
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The main part of making a home Internet based business opportunity work is advertising it. The best way of advertising on the Internet is through search engines. The three ways search engines work is through natural search, pay for inclusion(PFI), pay per click(PPC), and a combination of PFI and PPC.
Natural search is free. Say you sell widgets. A potential customer will go to a search engine and put in the term "widgets". The results they get will be a list of sites that sell widgets. Hopefully one of the top sites will be yours.
To get a high ranking site, you try to make your site search engine friendly by having key words and other content. Since Google.com was born in 1998, the use of search engines has gone up. Approximately 114.5 million Americans or 39% of the U.S. population use search engines.
In addition to Google, there's yahoo.com, msn.com, askjeeves.com, and others. Each search engine has its own algorithm for ranking websites. The way to make the most of your home Internet based business opportunity is focus less on algorithms and more on the needs of the site's visitors.
You can also use pay for inclusion and pay per click to promote your home Internet based business opportunity. Pay for inclusion is when a site owner pays a search engine to be included in their directory. Yahoo.com, looksmart.com, inktomi.com, and teoma.com have pay for inclusion programs. Usually the site will be in the directory for a certain amount of time such as a year.
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/>Pay per click is when you bid on search terms at a PPC site, and usually the higher you bid, the higher your listing on a search engine. Those most successful in these ventures have a popular, high-markup product with targeted keyword strategies.
Choosing the right keywords you think your potential customers will use on search engines can be tricky. Start with a basic keyword and expand on it. A yellow page search, yahoo directory, or Open Directory (dmoz.com) can help you find out what keywords are relevant to your product. Google Adwords has a tool that lets you find keywords (https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox).
These sites are also keyword finders -- www.inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ and www.wordtracker.com. Another way to get keywords is to go to competing sites, and look at their keywords in their titles, descriptions and HTML source code. You can do this by right clicking on a site and clicking on "View Page Source".
Use your site logs to find out visitor statistics and search engine referral information on keywords. Ask your customers what keywords they use. Do they use singular or plural forms? Do they use brand name or geographic-specific terms? Determining the search engine game will help your home Internet based business opportunity be more successful.
Adrian Austin is a respected internet marketing expert, and the founder of a leading home business http://www.treasureant.com and numerous marketing websites.
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Does Money Grow On Trees? - Terry Gibbs
"Money Doesn't Grow On Trees." Some of us even believe it. An orchard owner would say the statement is wrong. His profits grow on trees… As small business owners we are similar to tree farmers. We plant and nurture trees knowing that they...
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Cruise Travel Home Business: You’ve gone on your first or your 100th cruise and loved it. Did you ever consider starting a cruise travel agency? You enjoy the searching for the perfect cruise for yourself and everyone around you. You like...
Little Fingers Point to a Special Work-At-Home Idea - Georganne Fiumara
Work often takes moms away from their children, but a new career idea actually brings moms and their babies closer while providing a way to earn money at home. Here's the idea: There is a way a baby can tell his parents exactly what he wants months...
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