You may have created the
best Web site in the world, but unfortunately it
will not do your home based business any good if no
one sees it. Therefore, knowing how to market your
site and getting your site noticed is incredibly
important to the success of your home based business
and to make money online. Obviously, marketing your
web site is one of the most important activities you
can spend your time on.
Fortunately, getting your site noticed does not
have to be expensive so marketing on a tight budget
does not prevent you from getting quality exposure.
The first thing you will want to do is pack your
Web page full of keywords that people might use when
searching for information contained in your site.
The more keywords you have, or keyword phrases
someone might use, the more often your site will be
returned as a result for the person searching. The
keywords should appear multiple times each on your
web page and need to be context relevant, that is
the keywords should be in your page title, article
titles, section titles, paragraphs, links, etc. You
want to be in the top 5 results posted as often as
possible, so continually searching for keywords and
keyword phrases and refining your web site will
direct more traffic to your online home base
business.
Also, once you have packed your page full of
useful information and as many keywords as you and
your thesaurus can think of, you will want to upload
your URL to various search engines like Yahoo,
, Excite, Alta Vista, and any specialized
search engines that focus on your particular
business or service. By including more keywords on
your web site, when the search engines are searching
for sites pertaining to the keywords entered in the
search engine, your page will be listed as a higher
result than others. This is very important because
people generally check the first few web sites
results and skip the others if they find the
information they were looking. However, make sure
the information you provide on your site is useful
and you don’t just have a string of keywords to
attract people to your page. If you have useful
information about a product or service, people will
look around. If all you have is a bunch of keywords
and nothing that actually pertains to what the
individual is looking for, they will leave and never
come back. So, be alert to what you are offering
potential customers and attentive to the way you
bring them to your page.
If you have done all of the above, and are still
interested in more traffic, then consider marketing
your site on other related or non related sites by
banners and the like. This is a way of letting
individuals know about your product that might not
be aware of it to even search for it. By advertising
in this way you are reaching a sector of individuals
who want and need your product, but were never aware
of it.
There are multiple ways to market and of getting
your web site noticed, just make sure you do it in a
responsible way. Internet users are fed up with pop
up ads, fly-ins, fly-overs, exit pages, spam e-mail
and other unsolicited information. For instance,
many people now have programs that block pop up ads,
which means you are not even marketing. Finally, you
don’t want to anger potential customers or have them
close off their mind to your product, so be creative
when you are marketing, aggressive and always
respectful of current and future clients.