Internet Home Business Owner Lee’s Question, Continuation
This is a continuation from yesterdays post, answering Internet Home Business owners Lee’s post about my keywords, some of them at number 1 spot on the search engines, how much money am I making, having original content and still not making money.
We all own an Internet Home Business, and we all have the same problems, we need traffic. One of the ways to get that traffic is to have original content on our web sites, get a higher ranking for our keywords, move up on the search engines pages and then get that elusive traffic. That is how the theory goes, this is my experience with that theory.
1. I made a really huge mistake when I started with my first Internet Home Business, believe it or not, I did not spend any time on my keywords, zero time. It’s hard to imagine now, a year latter that I could be so stupid, but there it is. If nothing else, please DO NOT make the same mistake that I did, it was very costly. As far as the search engines were concerned, I did not exist for almost the first year I was suppose to be in business, trying to grow my Internet Home Business. To make matters worse, I have about 15 sites, some of them bought, yes, made the same mistake on all of them!
2. In my meager defense, I did spend that first year on producing a large quantity of original content, all of it keyword void, but still original content. In the long run, that content has and will benefit me and my sites, so that was not a total waste of time. This is Lee’s point, you can have original content on your site, and still not make money, very true indeed. As I learned, original content with no keywords is a waste of time, as far as the search engines are concerned.
3. Starting an Internet Home Business is a very time consuming process, especially when you factor in the time to build a new web site if that is where you are at. One of your key priorities at the beginning is spending the time required to research and pick your keywords, at the very beginning of that process. You should actually do it before anything gets started to be on the safe side. This is one area you should spend a few dollars, get some expert advice, make sure you do it right. On the other side of the coin, there is a ton of really good free tolls and aids on the Internet on this topic, with a little time and effort, you can get on board with this yourself.
4. Once you have your keywords, you can start to create everything for your Internet Home Business, web site , content, articles, advertising, blog, what ever you are going to do to get your name and brand out there, you can do properly now. In one sentence, what your keywords do for you is to give the search engines a way to find you, and then tell other people where to find you as well. Every time you do something in conjunction with your business, you will be creating a trail for the search engines to find you. The more trails, the more traffic. Please chip in with your definition of the relationship between us and the search engines.
5. A point I should make here, there is a good connection between original content, the search engines and frequency. A number of the search engines have gone on record as saying that if you have a regular stream of original content, you are more likely to have the search engines come on to your site to index it, on the same regular basis. Once again, having good original content is a waste, as far as the search engines are concerned, if they do not know it exists as well.
We have to remember that the SE’s are in business, just like us, their business is to give the best possible search results top their customers. The way they do that is to have the best, up to date, original content to offer to their customers, hopefully our future customers. If you are a supplier of original content, on a regular basis, the SE’s will like you, and come around to index you more often, than someone who may have content every 6 months. The SE’s go where there is material that will help them give their customers the best results.
Make your Internet Home Business a place that the search engines like to go for there fresh current consistent original content. That is the way to build a real business, that will be sustainable and profitable in the long run. More tomorrow, have a great day.
Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas,
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