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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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When we pose the question how to make money from websites, we tend to think of websites as a marketing channel where we market our wares, show off our successes, sell affiliate products or just write about our interests and monetize with ad placements.

We can certainly make money from websites in those ways but we keep forgetting there is another way! When we have learned how to establish websites and maybe even learned how to optimize them for some search engine traffic, we have learned a skill that is very much in demand by local business owners.

Thee must be millions of small businesses that would love to have a website showcasing their service and even more who want to be at the top of google results pages for the relevant keywords in their area. Why not sell your skills to them? Getting good search engine listings Read More…

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I came across an interesting idea at another site which comments on how so many business owners out there do not have a clue as to how to go about getting themselves online and how to get traffic to their sites. This represents an enormous opportunity for internet savvy work at home individuals like you. Why not charge these businesses near you to set up and manage websites. WordPress and other blog programs can be used to build neat sophisticated yet simple to use and run websites.

Case Stevens’ blog on affordable internet marketing talks about how he came across this very situation with a family business and he also links to Andrew Cavanagh’s free report on the subject, pick it up there or from my downloads page (see right of page). Case relates just how ignorant some folk are with a story of how the concept of linking blogs and sites together had to be explained to his sister in law.

Anyway, go check it out and get yourself a copy of that report, there is a whole goldfield of opportunity even just in the small businesses near you.

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