Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Better Home Based Business

How to start a better home based business, well if you search on Google with this term you will get over 4 million results which may or may not help. The key to success with a home based business is first of all to have a product that everyone wants.

One product I have success with is Jaguar Marketing because it teaches what most people need to know how to market a better home based business on the internet. I am not here so sell you that product, but to give some ideas as what is required to set up a work at home business.

The next phase is to do some keyword research around the term Internet marketing, I recommend http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com. Many people make the mistake of targeting a key word with many hits, whereas they will have more success in using a long tailed keyword so one would look at phrases such as Internet Marketing training, or internet marketing advice.

Once you have some ideas of keywords, it time to select a domain name. A tool I use is http://nameboy.com which helps by generating options. One thing to note is avoid the .biz domains as most emails from these domains get flagged as spam.

Once you have a domain name, if you are not going to build a better home based business website yourself but are forwarding it to another home based opportunity site, I recommend you use masking, which will allow your to enter the title, description and keyword meta tags to show in search engine results.



David Ogden Internet Marketing Mentor
201 793 8702
+6088258702




Saturday, February 16, 2008

SEO Tips for a Better Home Based Business

There are a lot of myths and misinformation regarding SEO and how to build a better home based business. Today I listened to a conference call where people were arguing about the maximum number characters to be used in titles and meta tag description. If you look as any website which has SEO tools you will find a variety of answers.

The truth is when building a better home based business it does not really matter, because search engine spiders cant count, they blindly read everthing they can within the various tags and the body of the website. Admitably every search engine has restrictions on the the amount of content it will display in the results so its pays to have your best keywords at the start.

Many people like to include flash, javascript and frames in the hope of
building a better home based business website. Flash might look great but does
nothing to improve a home based business website rankings and you need to
test if contents of java script and frames is being indexed

If you want to see your better home based business website the way a search engine spider does, look at the following search on Google and pick a couple to get a general idea.

Some SEO specialist like to confuse people by talking about keyword density and the like but once again these are only guidelines and quite often you will have to pay to in order to access these guideline.

People often ask how long it takes to get a site indexed by Google and the answer is anything from a matter of hours to months. Do not pay anyone to submit your home based business site when you can do it yourself for free,

Anyone who has a website need to be aware of Google webmaster guideline which clearly layout what your home based business website should look like. It is a matter of common sense.

The key to obtaining results on your better home based business, is to provide quality information which answers queries that people submit to search engines. If you have an affilate program you need to ensure that you will be enhancing a searchers experience by providing a page that provides unique information about the business, not merely repeating what is on the main site or cloaking the URL.


David Ogden Internet Marketing Mentor
201 793 8702
+6088258702




Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Home Based Business News

Home Based Business


A Home based business is a full time job and do not listen to anyone that tell you otherwise.Sure there are areas where automation will help you, such as using auto responders and the like. You can have all kinds of tools to help you, but when was the last time you checked tosee if they are working.

I started to check out my home based marketing business today, noticing that webs hits werelow and discovered that the configuration for one of my marketing portals had been corrupted I quickly checked it and updated my meta tags and descriptions and posted an update to Google.

There is always ongoing work to be carried out when running an online home based business and it does no harm to re-submit your site to Googlee whenever you make changes, no need to wait for the search engine spider and there is no penalty as s with some search engines.

Home Based Business Growth

Home based businesses are expected to grow in the New year with credit card companies and mortgage companies already reporting increasing defaults on payment. The Internet is a good place to earn money with a home based business, provided you follow simple rules, such as checking out what is on offer before committing yourself?

You will find a lot of free offers out there and even people who offer to pay you to join, the latter I advice you to avoid at all cost. some Free home based business offers are worth considering, but many are used as an introduction to wet your appetite and then you can find yourself forking out $100's buying leads, advertising or joining lists and programs.

An Ethical home based business owner will tell you upfront just what costs will be required in the future and if someone does not offer this, then you should request information.

Far too many people who start a home based business believe it is a matter of just setting up a website and people will flock to buy from you. the reality is a lot different. Earning money from a home internet business takes time and effort and that is why people fail. One they do not allow sufficient time and two they make no effort. Other people fail because they put in time and effort but do not work in the right way.

Home Based Business Advertising


Classified ads and posting to FFA's, does not work but many books and tapes sold or given away free advice you to do this. Yes they did work once but the Internet is changing for the home based business owner and you need to ensure you get you are keeping pace with changes by attending live training and seminars.

Now I have an ad blaster called Leadsomatic which sends out to 2 billion sites, which sound great if you have not read the preceding paragraph, Leadsomatic does in fact work great but it is not designed to send out a traditional sales adds, It is designed to get back links to your site, go here http://leadsomatic.leadsgenerating.com/ to watch a recorded session of how to set up your own Leadsomatic site blaster. The training is an example of how important it is for people to understand what it is they are buying and how it is designed to work.. The Internet get more complex as it grows nad without proper training and help it is very difficult to make money from a home based business.

David Ogden Internet Marketing Mentor
201 793 8702
+6088258702



Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Internet Marketing Training for a work at Home Based Business

Why Is Internet Marketing training essential for a work at home based business?

When you set up a home based business, you are your own boss but you are also both the CEO and the office boy. Many people fail to put together any kind of marketing plan and therefor plan to fail.

A marketing plan is a vital part of any work at home based business plan. Many people think its just a matter of getting a website and you are in business. you might have a great looking website and high quality products but without marketing you will get no one looking at your site.
You need to produce a site that will capture customers looking for what you are selling, so you have to think what potential customers might enter in a search engine to purchase what you sell, because it is no use having a top position in Google if no one uses the keywords you expected.

Once you have a website online for your work at home based business you need to continuously check that your keywords are being searched on and you are gaining on the ranking.

You may find you need to change your keywords. One way to do this is to provide new content using some different keywords and see if this makes any change to your traffic.

These ideas are some things you should consider and will often be discussed as part of free training courses which can be found as a result of a Google search

You will find it takes a little time to learn Internet Marketing, however once you have learnt the basic skills and start to see the result, you will realise what is missing from most off the peg businesses and why paying money for pay per click is a fools game.

David Ogden Internet Marketing Mentor
201 793 8702
+6088258702


Monday, December 10, 2007

Work At Home Based Business Marketing

Work at home business marketing seems to be an increasing challenge for some people
I visited a forum today where members were attempting to help one another, which is great to see, but few were looking to see if the advice they were offering was of help to the user.

At first I though it was people posting so as to get back links but some posts had no signature data, which is in itself a mistake. When trying to market a work at home based business it is essential to market oneself. The main reason is that each person is totally unique so that you can be easily found in a Google search and people will generally be more likely to deal with some one they can get to know and trust.

If a person trying to market a work at home based business uses a false identity they perhaps have something to hide, its like using a tinyurl to mask affiliate sites. now some people think that using a tinyurl will prevent someone from cutting out their affiliate number, but someone can do that anyway if they so wish. If you have a long URL it is just as easy to give a hyperlink a short name like Jaguar Marketing instead of http://www.jagmarketingsystem.com/index.php?page=video&theme=1&id=p6071

I actually laughed at one post where a person was asking how to market an e-book which was about marketing for beginners. The book it seems had not helped him but he was happy to take other peoples money and sell something that is useless.

I you are serious about marketing a work at home based business you need to seek advice from experts and find some form of live training which will show the the basic rather than purchase information which does not work.


David Ogden Internet Marketing Mentor
201 793 8702
+6088258702