There are so many ways in getting visitor to your website, but is most of them would turn into your real customer? Unless you are getting the visitors direct from the search engine like Google. Why i am saying so? Let me ask you few questions, where is the first place you will be going when you are trying to search for online information?

Yes, is Google! Which sites you will be clicking after the search result appear? Yes, first site appear on top. Of course, you wouldn’t want to waste your time to browse every each of the site appear in search result but would only pick one or two from the top of the result list, unless you are looking for deep information.

Ok, let come back to our topic, how to make your website appear in the first or second spot in the search result, it can be done in two way in general, onpage SEO or offpage SEO. On page means you do whatever necessary which is complying with the SEO rule in your own website, whereby offpage means you do whatever necessary which is out of your website.

Both methods are relatively important, having no question, you have full control over your own website so you can have your onpage optimization done easily. Whereby offpage is kind of more difficult where the work is not under your own control. One of the most famous offpage SEO is link building. Link building means your link are appear in other website and the visitor from that website can easily browse your site from that link.

Indirectly, if you get a link from other website, google count it as a credit into your website, or giving your website a vote. The more votes you get, the higher your webpage will be appearing in the search result when the searcher searching for relevant information.

I hope the above information give you a rough idea on how to make your website to be more visible in search engine like google by means of onpage optimization and offpage optimization (i.e. link building). You can also browse one of the link building service provider who charge quite a low service cost while searching in major Search Engine.

The affiliate partner post the merchant’s link to their website or blog and are paid according to an agreement which can be based on the number of people the affiliate sends to the merchant’s site (or can be said as pay per click), or the number of sales generated. Commissions earned can be very generous with little work required from the website owner.

Consider investigating affiliate programs such as DVD rental, hotel room rental, sporting apparel, toys, grocery or daily consumable where you as a webmaster can earn income from the support of your website visitor. This is a simple money making method as well as home based business for anyone  that has a website or blog presence. The only time and effort involved is in creating the original link and asking your members to support the sites you are affiliated with and you may also interested on how to drive traffic to your website.

Estimated cost of start up: USD 1000
Basic start up kit: PC/laptop, internet connection, website(hosting + domain).

a) Submit your website to the major search engines, like google, yahoo, bing and so on.

b) Use linking service to get your link published in other websites, in return you publish their link in your website, in other word, link exchange.

c) Use keyword marketing to target your potential niche market, you could probably try google adwords.

d) Publish a weekly or monthly e-magazine or e-newsletter to promote your website.

e) Write article about your home business, and submit it to article directory. Make sure you add your website link on the resource box (bottom of article).

f) Create signature and include it in your email or when you are posting in forums. Be sure to add your website’s link in the signature.

g) Start an affiliate program to encourage other web marketers to promote your website.

h) Include a “bookmark us” link in your website allow your web users to bookmark your site at their convenience.

i) Leave a resourceful comment in similar niche business website.

No traffic to your website means no sales for your business, if you are not able to implement all of the tips above to get your website visible, at least try few of them. You will see the change of your sales.If you like this “How to drive traffic to your business website” post, please digg it or share with your friends.

For most business, the top level .com domain is always preferred follow by .net domain and .biz domain. Other extension such as .org for instance is far less to be considered by the home based business owner.

The domain name that you pick must be short and descriptive, preferably less than 15 characters if possible, and the domain must be describing the type of business that you are operate. Good domain name is usually hard to acquire, so, once you have pick one, make sure you register the domain name in your business registration, so that you can make sure you have the full control of the domain than anybody else.

The cost for domain registration affordable, normally vary between $10 to $30 per year, and the domain can also be obtained widely from the web, such as godaddy.com, they provide good service. Do some research before register the domain name as some of the domain registration company would also provide their customer with free e-commerce, web design and web development services. Register the best domain name for your home based business today!

Sell or promote means you have to either sell your own product or you promote other website’s product (affiliate). By joining an affiliate program, you earn a portion of revenue from the product sold or referred by your website, you save time and money by generating or storing your product in the inventory, all you need to do is just to use your promoting skill to sell as much as you can.

Earning from selling advertisement space from your website is another type of online business venture, you can start a blog, an info based portal like BusinessGoOnline.com, forum, directory, photo album and etc. One of the most famous type of websites in the world wide web today is info based website and blog, you create unique and valuable contents and attract as much traffic as possible to your website, the more visitors to your site and the more regular they return to your site, your site ranking will be increase. And advertiser usually target to advertise in a high ranking website where they are able to gain visibility and exposure through the website. Other than selling ads space, you can also consider to participate in google adsense program, this program allow you to insert the advertisement from their advertiser, when somebody click on the ads, you will earn a portion of revenue from the advertiser pay to google, and this is the most used revenue generator from most of the websites today.

Starting a website is not as difficult as you think, but is also not as easy as you think. What you have to do in the first step is to purchase a domain and register a hosting, download a web script(depending on what type of website you want to start) and get ready to earn from the web! However, if you need help in developing your first website, please contact me, i will help you.

Estimated cost of start up: USD 300
Basic start up kit: PC/laptop, internet connection, basic web programming knowledge (but not essential), and basic typing skill.