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7 Common Internet Home Business Mistakes
By Joel Teo
Many Online Gurus often tell you what you should do online with your internet home business websites but many do not tell
you what not to do which is as important. In this article we will highlight the seven most common internet home business mistakes
that internet home business owners commonly make.
Over optimize website
Most internet home business owners when they first learn about Search Engine Optimization spend a lot of time on optimization.
This means that they spend endless hours tweaking their meta-tags and sitemaps and adding content on the websites that they
create. Not that this is not important but search engines today have moved on and now look at Page Rank which is a measure
of how popular your website is online by counting the number of inbound links from other websites. Search engines also look
at your websites anchor text link that is found on websites with related industries. One good way to get such links is to
exchange links with other websites and another way is to write articles and put your anchor text into your signature text.
Putting all your eggs into one basket
Sometimes it is hard to diversify and build multiple websites when you first start out in your internet home business
because you are so caught up building one website that will be your crowning achievement online. What you do need to do however
is to build several related websites at the same time and build link popularity for them all. This would also help you generate
multiple income streams for your internet home business.
Not registering their own domain
Some people spend endless hours posting free ads on free classified ads online using the company referral code. What happens
sometimes is that the company changes the referral code and all their previous advertising is in vain. A better way is to
register your own domain and point it to whatever referral code you want and avoid this problem.
Failure to focus on one thing on their website
Some people think that the flea market approach is the best when they start building their websites and throw many ideas
and business ideas into one website. This is terrible because it confuses your website visitors. If your website is a sales
website you want to show your visitors one offer and one offer only. The more blinking banners and things that distract them
on the page, the faster they will click away and the less money you will make in your internet home business.
Join get rich quick schemes online
There are always one group of people online that think that money is abundant online and can be made quickly though get
rich quick schemes. Such people then are burnt as quickly as they came and then they go around the internet telling people
that there is no way to make money online in any internet home business. Stay away from such get rich quick schemes and the
popular adage is true; If it is too good to believe, it often isn't. There is no substitute for working hard online on your
internet home business.
Fail to plan
Most people fail to plan their websites and marketing campaigns when starting an internet home business and often spend
a huge amount of time and money to realize that they have nothing to show for their large amount of work done. Spend some
time formulating your online business plan and when in doubt go to popular internet marketing forums and seek advice. Tweak
and tweak your plan continually so as to achieve greater internet home business success.
Fail to track conversion ratios
This applies to any form of internet home business promotion be it products or of the business opportunity itself. Spend
some time tweaking all parts of your website so as to achieve the best results. This can be in the form of headlines, sales
copy, opt in hoverads. A good way to start is to write down a list of variables and spend time testing them weekly. The Top
Internet Marketing Gurus spend a lot time doing this and you should too if you want to get more sales from your internet home
business website.
In conclusion, spend some time reading through these seven common internet home business mistakes and try to avoid them
as you build your internet home business. Making money online is a deliberate plan and takes a lot of planning to be executed
well. May your online endeavours be fruitful!
Joel Teo is the successful owner of several successful internet business ventures. Click here to learn how you can start
your own successful internet business today.
http://www.massive-profits-online.com
Copyright © 2005-2006 Joel Teo the Coolest Guy On The Planet
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/
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Get Traffic Soon and Surge Ahead or You'll Get Lost in the Internet Wilderness.
By Kanaga Siva
Getting Traffic or more precisely Targeted Traffic to your website is the most important strategy for the Survival and Success
of your Internet Home Based Business. It is a well known fact that the vast majority of the new Home Business Entrepreneurs
have only a small marketing budget. Not that they are all short of funds but it takes time for them to be convinced about
spending money. It is their desire and determination to cash in on the vast potential the Internet offers that has thrust
them into this field of activity.
Follow these free, reliable methods and get the Traffic you desperately need to get noticed in the Internet. Some methods
are time consuming and laborious but when money is the critical factor, time and labor should not be of major concern.
1. Reciprocal Linking.
Reciprocal linking is one of the most popular ways to get traffic to your Home Based Business site and also boost your
rankings in the search engines. The strategy you should follow is: (a) Go to search engines such as Google, Yahoo or MSN and
identify the websites that are similar or relevant to yours with high page ranks. (b)Eliminate those that are in direct competition
to you. (c) Persuade and convince the webmasters to exchange links with you. (d) Identify quality websites i.e. websites with
PR3 and over that have high traffic and exchange links with them.
2. Writing Articles.
One of the best ways to get high targeted traffic and one way links to your Home Business is to write articles and submit
them to (a) Article Directories, (b) Ezine Publishers, and (c) High traffic websites that accept article submissions. Quality
articles are in great demand and if you can write quality, thought provoking and educative articles in your field of expertise,
your articles will definitely be accepted for publication. You should ensure that (a) you have a Resource Box at the bottom
of the article. (b) And have your URL in the Resource Box. If your article is impressive you can expect a massive influx of
visitors to your website via the resource box.
3. Submitting to Directories.
Once your website is ready with good content and quality links, you should start submitting your website to Search Engine
Google and the Directories. Submitting to Directories is another way of getting additional targeted traffic to your website.
This also increases your site's overall importance to obtain a high page rank. If you want to be visible in the internet world,
getting listed in Directories especially in Directories with high page rank and traffic is the fastest way to do it. Some
charge a fee for listing while others are free. Among the free directories some insist on a link back from your site. Link
back to them happily and get listed.
4. Posting at Forums.
Another great way of getting free traffic is to post at discussion forums on a regular basis. If your contributions at
these forums display good knowledge and authority, an immediate increase in your website traffic will be seen. To get the
maximum benefit, (a) visit high traffic forums, (b) display your knowledge and (c) include your signature file and URL there.
It is this URL that will siphon traffic to your site.
5. Emails.
The emails that you send out, whether it is personal or business can be a source of traffic. You have to ensure that your
advertisement or signature is there at the bottom of the page with your URL. Though it might not be much traffic, nevertheless
it is free traffic. Make the best use of it.
6 Tell a friend/Refer a friend.
Another source of traffic which is often overlooked is through your own website. Place a "Tell a Friend" or
"Refer a Friend" image or script on your website. This can be obtained free from several sources, by searching in
the search engines. Visitors, who sincerely appreciate your site and are grateful for the information and the resources provided,
will pass on the good news to their friends.
7. eBay Traffic.
Traffic from eBay is not the normal channel but it is working for many. Any traffic that is free is what you need most.
So (a) register yourself with eBay, (b) go to the "about me" page and fill in useful information with a link to
your website. If done correctly, you are certain to get a significant amount of traffic since millions visit eBay every month.
8. Fresh Content.
It is surprising that many webmasters spend much time in finding various avenues to attract visitors to their sites but
overlook the importance of adding fresh content to their sites. Content is King and Search Engines love fresh content. Your
visitors love them too. It does not cost you anything so add fresh content regularly and they will keep on returning again
and again.
Millions of websites are lost deep down in the Internet Wilderness unheard of and unsung. Certainly you dont want to be
one of those! Get started. Start making money from home by implementing your Internet Marketing program.
Copyright © 2005 Kanaga Siva
About Kanaga: Kanaga Siva has been a Marketing Manager and Business Manager and has a wealth of experience in Marketing.
He now operates his own Home Based Business. For Articles, Resources, Tips and Ideas to start a Home Based Business from anywhere
in the World and for other recommended Programs to make money from home, visit his website:
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/
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What is a Domain Name and Why Would You Want One?
By Arpit Sharma
What is a Domain Name? Before we can go into what a domain name is I'm going to tell you why we need them as the answers compliment
each other. The Internet is just a really big collection of connected computers (a network). For the purpose of explaining
domain names you can think of the Internet a bit ike the phone system and just like the phone system every computer on the
Internet has it's own phone number except an Internet phone number is called an IP addresses. This address is made up of up
to 12 digits in the form 123.123.123.123, computers use these IP addresses to send information to each other over the Internet.
When the Internet was first created it quickly became clear that these IP addresses were not easy to remember and another
method was need to make these addresses more human friendly.The solution to this was the Domain Name System (DNS). Basically
the DNS is a really really big phone book for computers. When you type a web site address into your web browser it checks
the DNS for that website name and finds the IP address. Once it has the IP address it can then send a message to that computer
and ask it for the web page you wanted.
Ok so you know a domain name is part of a web site address but which part? Lets look at a website address so we can identify
and discuss what bit of it is a domain name.
http://www.allwebhosts.com.ru/indexhtml
The above address is the home page of the this web site. It can be split into 3 main parts. The first part is http://
this just tells your web browser what kind of information it is going to get and how to get it. The last part is /index.html
this is name of the files on the remote computer that you want your browser to get. The bit in the middlewww.allwebhosts.com.ru
is a domain name. This is the name that your computer sends to the DNS to get back the IP address.
So you know what a domain name is and that there is a phone book called the DNS to change your easy to remember domain
name into an IP address that you computer can understand. The Internet phone book (DNS) is special in that everyone on the
Internet needs to be able to use it. This makes the DNS very very big (100+ million addresses big). Due to the size of this
phone book it needed to have a carefully organised and managed structure.
Domain names themselves are split into different levels like a hierarchy. The DNS system uses this hierarchy to search
the DNS for the IP address of the domain name it is trying to find. The last bit of a domain, in the previous example the
com part is called the top level domain. There are a large selection of top level domains like com, net, org and info. There
are also very similar endings called country level domains like uk and de. Each of the top level and country level domains
are managed by a different organization, sometimes these are companies or non profit organizations and sometimes governments.
In the domain business these organisations are referred to as the registries. Each registry looks after it's own part of the
domain name system.
If you decide you want to use a domain name in the top level domain com, like mycompany.com you would have to have this
name assigned by the registry that manages that top level domain (for .com a US company called VeriSign). The process of being
assigned a domain name is called domain registration.
Domain registration is more like a lease than a purchase. You are renting the second level domain (the mycompany bit)
from Verisign for a specific amount of time normally between 1 and 10 years at a time. Most of the organizations that allow
you to register a second level domain charge a fee for each year that you register the domain for. With almost all domain
names you are also given the option to renew your registration (lease) when it is close to running out (expiring).
Once you have registered a second level domain you are free to create as many third level domains (sometimes called sub
domains) as you like.
Once you have registered a second level domain you are free to create as many third level domains (sometimes called sub
domains) as you like. In our previous example the www is a sub domain of itxcel.com.
Most of the registries that manage these top level domain names do not allow individuals or businesses to register domains
directly with them. To register a domain you need to use a company like Allwebhosts. We act as a registrar and send all the
required information and the registration fee to the registry. Registrars are useful as they hide the differences that exist
in each of the registries from the customer and provide a simple step by step process for registering a domain. A registrar
also allows you to manage and track all your domains from one place rather than having to deal with a different company for
each top level domain.
OK so I know what a domain name is, Why do need one? Can you image what a nightmare it would be if you had an email address
like myname@123.246.128.255 or a web site address http://123.246.128.255/? These addresses are possible but not very easy
to remember. Now if you register a domain name you could create an email address like myname@mycompany.com and a web site
address like mycompany.com. These are much easier to remember and look 100 times more professional.
One of the important points about registering a domain is that once done you have an exclusive right to use that domain
for as long as you keep the domain registered in your name. If you do not renew a domain at the end of it's registration period
it will again become available for registration by someone else. For this reason even if you don't want or need a web site
at the moment, it's still a good idea to register a domain as soon as possible. Just imagine if your competition registered
the domain name of your company or product. Although there is a process in place to retrieve these domain it can be long and
complicated. It is definitely simpler to spend a little money up front to secure your chosen domain names.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/
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