Aubrey's Corner

Building A Successful Internet Business

With millions of websites and blogs across the web everyone is fighting for success. Usually success in the online business world means a ton of consistent free traffic which is built in the search engines and begin able to monetize the traffic which will allow you to earn money online. When you start an online business there are many things you should do in the beginning. The first step when wanting to build a successful business is learning everything you can about keywords and search engine optimization. From the very first letter type it is important to know exactly what you would like to rank well for. Go to Google and search for Google adwords keyword tool which will bring up a tool which will tell you the monthly searches of any term that you enter. Make sure you pick at least ten keywords to rank your website well for.

When you have a few keyword picked out it is time to place them on your website or blog. There are hundreds of different places you can create a presence for free and start earning money. Some of the most used include blogger.com, typepad.com, wordpress.com, and 000webhost.com. These resources will give you a free sub domain, storage, and bandwidth. The first three are blogging platforms which will let you create the web presence without knowledge of HTML or other web languages. If you have no experience with web development or programming these different platforms will make it much easier compared to learning the different web languages. Now even bloggers will need to understand some different HTML tags for SEO purposes. Some of the important HTML tags which you should learn include the anchor tags, heading tags, and src tags. These are some of the most commonly used tags that bloggers use on their blogs.

As you create your presence remember that making money online is not a short term goal. In the majority of cases with myself included it took a year before I started seeing a decent income and the income was directly related to the amount of work I did with creation and marketing. The nice thing about online business is everything you do stays with your online business. This means if you create a really good blog post that post will never go away and as long as the information is still viable and being linked to in the webmaster community it will rank well in Google forever. One way to speed success is becoming familiar with internet marketing. For the new online business one great place to start learning internet marketing is from a webmaster forum such as the one over at v7n.com/forums/. You can also start submitting your website over at directorycritic.com.