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What’s In A Name? Creating Credibility for Your Business...

Nelson Bates, Author Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites Most people who start an online business will spend far too much time just getting things set up and won’t have enough time or money to spend on the things that will actually make him or her money. It is important therefore, to get past many of the start up issues as quickly as possible, so you can focus on creating additional traffic to your website and improving your sales process. Two of the most important decisions you will need to do, before you even begin to design your website, are to choose the name of your business and your domain name. The Name of Your Business:In most situations I recommend the name of the business be the same as the domain name. It makes things much easier in general, as you'll see below.There are two schools of thought here: go with a keyword generated name or go with a name you make up. My preference is to go with a keyword-generated name because it’s easier to target the search en

Money Online – Traffic and Content Making...

By Nelson Bates, Author Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites The most important aspect of making money online is also the hardest thing to do. This is creating significant and consistent traffic to your website. To illustrate why traffic is the most important aspect, consider this: when I was running my website appraisal business, we received submissions from some of the most poorly designed websites that were earning $10,000 to $20,000+ per month in profit. The key was that they had a tremendous flow of traffic. I never saw a single example of a great looking website, with no or low traffic, making lots of money. I did, however, see plenty of bad and mediocre websites making incredible money, simply because they had excellent traffic.The second main point to making money online is designing a great website. This is split into two parts. The first is the modifications you do to your website to optimize it for the Search Engines. The second is everything else that make

Success Means a Profitable Website (and Profitable Doesn’t Require Perfection!)

By Nelson Bates, Authorof Best Website Simple Steps to Successful Websites I believe people lose money online for two reasons. The first reason is because they get bogged down in the details of building their business. Things like server platforms, coding choices, graphic design, layout options, entity formation, and search engine optimization, among others. It’s very easy to get confused and lose track of where you need to go. The second reason is that they don’t allow enough time for their business to succeed. Most people will not continue past three months if their business does not start to make money. They become frustrated with the process and give up.In my opinion, you’ll need at least 3 to 6 months to establish a solid website and start generating enough traffic to become profitable. It just takes that long to refine your website and gain search engine traffic. But, as long as you know what the right path is, you’ll know to keep going. Success Means a Profitable Website

The BestWebsite® Essential

The BestWebsite Essential 9TM - The nine most important things you can do to make your website a profitable success: 1.) Create a Remarkable Website ... It is far less expensive to build a remarkable website than it is to advertise an average one. Come up with a remarkable aspect for your product, service, business etc., then incorporate it into your website. Give people a reason to talk about your website and they will do your promotion for you!! (20-40hrs, $500 varies widely) 2.) Proper Keyword Research ... Use WordTracker(FreeKeywords.WordTracker.com) and Google Suggest(google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en) to select the proper keywords and begin search engine optimization on your website. (10-15hrs, $59) 3.) Setup a Free Squidoo.com Page ... This is an excellent way to boost your search engine rankings by creating links from your Squidoo page back to your website. It is al