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Most small businesses including home based ones end up with a website, whether to sell products or to catalogue services or just talk about the business. Whether you build it yourself or have it professionally built, your next task is to get people actually using it.

As any web designer who handles small business clients can tell you, there are a huge number of people out there who still believe in the maxim “build it and they will come”. This unfortunately is simply not the case.

Unless your site is one of a small few that deal in the subject matter you are fighting for attention with all the other sites out there that want to get listed for the same search terms entered into a search engine like Google. Even if you are one of a few, you still need to get the search engines to realise you exist.

That is where we start our search engine optimisation journey. So let’s look at what we can do to get listed in Google. Read More…

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I’ve just read another great free ebook, this time from Caroline Middlebrook who has a blog all about her ongoing efforts to become a successful internet entreprneur and the challenges and thoughts she has on it all.

In this well written book, Caroline shares her plan to use the power of wordpress (a free blogging tool used by this site and so many more) to create low maintenance mini websites on niche topics over and over to make money from affiliate sales and other avenues. Her book guides you through the setup of wordpress itself and why she favours static sites and how to use wordpress for those static sites.

She does not go much into the monetization aspects but she does briefly cover the two obvious possibilities, adsense and affiliate links. In her plan the aim is to get these sites producing just a dollar or so each per day then to build up a collection of them. This ‘virtual real estate’ is not a new idea but wordpress makes it real easy and of course you might think of building your own mini sites to produce much more income per day!

You can pick it up her blog above to pick it up from her site which is well worth visiting.

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