Guide For Online Business

A Logical Work At Home Guide

For Online Business

The best way to work at home is doing it yourself with

a real and legitimate business. The Internet provides

a great opportunity to turn any dream into a reality

with practically no start up costs and with following

a work at home guide for business it can be done with

ease. The best and most profitable businesses online

are ones, which run off a web site and the best way to

make money for a start up business is to use affiliate

programs as the revenue model. This is a winning

combination which is easy to start, costs very little

money and has close to no risks associated with it.

The reason why a web site is best is because it provides

all the best ways to generate targeted traffic, converts

visitors into sales and have long term security. A web

site does great in the search engines and gets tons

of free targeted traffic, this traffic can be converted

into sales by using affiliate programs. Affiliate programs

allow any webmasters the ability to place different

products and services onto the pages of their site and

as visitors make purchases from the site the webmaster

relieves a commission for every sale made. For a start

up business, this is great because a person does need

to raise capital in order to provide visitors with goods

to purchase. Affiliate programs allow anyone a way to

sell anything and make money without putting money

up front, this greatly reduces financial risks and why

affiliate programs are part of a work at home guide.

Web sites work in a very simple manner, create a great

site people will love when they find it. The only way to

do this is by providing unbelievable content to the

visitors on whatever the business concept is. If a web

site is about investing in the stock market than the site

needs to provide pages of content about the stock

market. From the basics of the market, strategies of

the market, how the market works and so on. There is

no faking this because if you do not know what you are

talking about then no one is going to like the site, trust

the site and most importantly purchase for the site. The

web site business concept must be covering a concept

that you can deliver great information on so it must be

something you are an expert in, and you should enjoy

it as well.

By using the work at home guide to start a web site with

the sole intention of making it one of the best resource

and information sites on the net for its concept in time

the search engines will take notice. The site begins to

rank in the search results as user's type in the keywords

to discover information they are looking for. Great

webmasters make sure to create their content around

the keywords and this is done by using a software

program that analyzes keywords, by creating content

with the exact keywords that are being used it is much

easier to rank for those keywords and get the targeted

traffic coming into the site. Try to locate a free keyword

program online and fool around with it a bit typing in the

terms that you would like to start a business on.

Getting targeted visitors is a must for any online business

to make it and because the visitors are targeted it

becomes much easier to make sales from the traffic.

It would be much more difficult to try to sell say investment

software to someone who is looking online for a cruise

vacation. This is where the affiliate programs come in,

now that the targeted traffic is coming into the site it

must convert into profits. Affiliate programs can be

joined for any product or services and all ones has to

do is look on the net for what they want to sell making

sure it will be something that the visitors are interested in.

This is done best on a page by page basis, if a page of a

site is about investment software then look for the best

programs to offer visitors and also the best prices from

the affiliate programs. Pricing is very competitive and will

have a great impact on sales conversions so make sure

to find the affiliate program that has the best prices for

the goods you want to offer. Let's say that one page of

the site is about top trading software, then on that page

it makes sense to add a few of the top affiliate products

for trading software which visitors can purchase. Now let

us say that another page of that section within the site

is about top retirement software, then it makes sense

to have some affiliate different affiliate product's visitors

of the page would be interested in. Clearly, people looking

for trading ideas would not be interested in purchasing

a retirement investment software and vice versa. Keep

all the affiliate products as tightly targeted to the visitors

who will be on the page and also make sure that the

content of each page is so valuable to them that they

will trust your opinion and want to buy. The best

webmasters never just have sales pages without content,

they use the content to excite the visitors and offer

goods, they should look into within the content, this is

the most effective way to make money online with a web

site and affiliate programs.

The work at home guide is simple to apply and really is just

common sense. Think about what you like when in need

of information on the net and think about what you

dislike. Odds are if you were looking for information for

a trip to Paris and found a site promising information on

it only to land on a page with no information and tons of

"buy tickets to Paris here" and "book a Paris room now"

you would be annoyed, not make a purchase and look

elsewhere for the information. If you found a site from

someone who loves Paris, has tons of information on

the best places to stay, what to do and how to find great

rooms at rock bottom prices odds are you would enjoy the

site, trust the information and make a purchase. A web site

and affiliate program business model combination is one

of the most used and respected on the net by the biggest

Internet marketers, and they are very easy as well as

inexpensive to start up, just come up with a great

business concept that you can turn into a high quality

and valued site on the web and target the visitors with

affiliate products or services they want.

Online Business Ideas & Plans, Ways To Make Money Online

How to Get Search Engine Traffic to

Your Blog

1. Search Traffic has been an important

part of my blogging

The amount of traffic that the blogs I’ve worked on get from

Search Engines varies considerably from blog to blog but on

my two current blogs I get 25-35% of my traffic from Search

Engines (largely Google).

You can see that Search Engine Traffic is not the biggest source

of traffic (social media takes that award) but it is significant

considering the site gets over a million visits a month.

2. Search Traffic isn’t Everything

Looking at the above chart you see that if I was to only ever focus

upon Search Engine Traffic that I could potentially be loosing up

to 67% of my blog’s traffic.

One of the main points I made yesterday is that people shouldn’t

become obsessed by Search. While it has amazing potential – I

find that sites grow best when they have a variety of sources of

traffic (including from Search Engines).

Here is another chart from the presentation which shows the four

main areas that I put effort into when thinking about driving traffic –

Search, Social Media, Community and Content.

Search Engine Optimization, participating in social media, building

community and producing content are four important elements of

building a site that gets (and keeps) high levels of traffic. When a

blogger becomes obsessed by any one of them

(to the detriment of others) the site can suffer

(or at least not realize its potential).

When the four elements come together a blog can

grow quite rapidly.

3. SEO is Important

Learning the basics of Search Engine Optimization is important

as a blogger. While most blog platforms these days come fairly

well optimized for Google there are always tweaks that can be made.

For example on

WordPress the title tags that are served up by default can be tweaked

to not show your blog’s name on each post on your blog

(or at least to put it after the post name).

There are also a lot of easy ways to optimize a post for search

engine traffic while writing posts. For example

formatting images well with SEO in mind and

using good keywords in titles.

SEO really does make a difference and bloggers who

learn the basics can see significant increases in traffic.

It is well worth investing time into learning it.

Learn more SEO techniques in previous posts on ProBlogger:

• Search Engine Optimization for Blogs
• How to Herd Organic Search Traffic to Your Blog
• Do a Search Engine Optimization Audit on Your Blog

Highly Recommended – Also check out Aaron Wall’s SEObook

for some excellent training on SEO. Consider it an investment

in learning how to drive traffic to your blog.

4. Great Content is More Important than SEO

I felt strange saying this at a conference where SEO companies

were pitching for clients and talking about the importance of

building links to a site – but in my experience the most important

thing you can do to build your blog’s search engine traffic is to

write the most amazing, useful, authoritative and inspiring

content possible.

Here’s the question you need to be asking while writing

each post:

How can I make this the type of post that people

will want to share with others?

Search Engine authority has a habit of coming to those blogs

who consistently produce content that enhances peoples lives,

meets needs and solves problems. If you create something that

does some of these things it is quite likely that the all important

links that your blog needs to build search engine authority will

come as people link up on their blogs, share the link on social

messaging and bookmarking sites, email their friends etc

While great content doesn’t automatically equal lots of traffic –

if you produce it consistently over time and actively participate in

social media and within your blog’s niche it has a habit of building

your traffic and search engine authority.

I’m not anti using link building strategies

(ie asking people for links) but I’ve never really done it

(I may have once or twice in the early days of my blogging).

I know some bloggers who spend many hours each month

‘building links’ but wonder what would happen if instead they

concentrated on using that time to build linkable content?

Perhaps I’m a little naive – but Google is in the business of

ranking the best sites highest. They want to rank great content

in the #1 position – so, my aim as a blogger is to write that kind

of content.