A Little Bit Goes a Long Way For An Internet Home Business
If you own an Internet Home Business, this is an example of how just a little bit of the right activity can go a long way. The secret of success for an Internet Home Business is getting traffic, and getting your keywords ranked as high as possible. As some of you know, when I started my business, I made the mistake of not spending the time on picking key words and setting up my web site and content accordingly. Not only did I basically waste almost a year of my time, I also lost the aging process that the search engines like so much.
An Internet Home Business is like a fine wine, it gets better with age. There is a lot to know about search engines and how they work, among the things they like is age, the longer an Internet Home Business has been around, the better they like it. The funny thing is, you do not have to do anything, all you have to do is have a web site, properly set up, and over time, your page rank will increase just because you are there. Do not confuse this with properly building and developing your business, the point I am making is that stability and history is important to the engines.
Just a tip, when you register your web site name, register it for at least 2 years, the engines like to see that you are planning to be around for awhile. They will actually penalize you if you only register for less than a year, and when you get down to having to register your name before it expires, they really do not like that.
I recently started to work on an Internet Home Business of mine that I had set up about 6 months ago, and then stopped working on it for a while. I spent the time to set up the site, as well as putting up about 30 pages of content, and about 20 original articles. I also had set up a blog, and made about 15 posts. After that, I left it totally alone for almost 6 months. I then started to work on it again and found out that it had a page rank of 2!! This is not great, but it sure beats a zero or a one.
I learned two valuable lessons with this web site. The first one is this, if you are going to take the time to set up an Internet Home Business, as well as a web site, take the little bit of extra time it will take, and set it up to take advantage of the time it will exist, whether you work it or not, the clock is still ticking. This clock is important to the engines and if you have taken the time to set up your business properly, with some content, some pages and some original material, the search engines will look at you favorably. If I had not taken the time when I set up my site, with the content and the blog posts, I would of wasted the 6 month aging process.
I also learned that if I had not totally abandoned the site, and had spent even an hour or two a week on posting on the blog or putting up a page or two of original content, I would of gotten even more value for the time the site was up. The statistics about sites is really scary. Over 98 % of new Internet Home Business web sites, have less than 5 pages on them, that is 5 pages in total. That means to get into the top 2 % of all web sites, all you need is more than 5 pages of content on your total site. When you look at it this way, who can not put together a site that has more than 5 pages of content on it ?
Another interesting fact about new businesses on the Internet. Less than 1 % of new Internet Home Business web sites are in business past the first year. What this means to the rest of us, all we have to do is survive our first year, then we end up in the top 1% percent of all of the web sites out there. The bad news is, that still means we have to compete with millions of web sites that have been around past the first year of their existence.
What seems to be important to us, owners of an Internet Home Business, is that regular, consistent additions to our sites are the keys to our success. Have a great day, see you tomorrow.
Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas
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