To have any money making business on the web the No.1 Factor is to be noticed,

The way to get noticed envolves SEO (search Engine Optimisation) and Advertising, Its very simple.

Unfortunately many people these days try and design a website themself,
sorry it never works really your first step is to leave it to the professionals.

Because once your website has been built there will be so many vital steps that need to be put into place to keep it actively seen.

SEO: Optimisming your site daily, Links, Back Links, Anchor Text, Meta Tags, Keyword Analsis, Keyward Enhancer, pages and pages of quality content, Articles, Blog Networking, the list goes on.... do you really want to take care of this on your own?

ADVERTISING: Get yourself in a quality website, why not spend a little bit of money, after all your site will have quality targeted visitors, meaning more quality customers = more sales! There you go it wont be long before you notice your ad has not only paid for itself but also made your pocket bigger than you thought.

That sums it up nicely. I am beginning to believe that SEO is very important, especially for forums where the content is being added to 24/7

This also proves true with programs offering affiliate websites, the only difference from one affiliate site to the next is their respective referral code. Search engines typically reject these codes and rank only the main url unless an affiliate learns to either optimize their affiliate links to be recognized, or build their own site to present their multiple affiliate opportunities. The latter being more labor intensive, however, more productive.


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Some good tips there, TS247. Links particularly should never be underestimated. Search Engines like Google place a lot of emphasis on who is linking to your site, as they like to think that others view your site as important enough to link to. As a general rule the higher the PR the better.