The Steps A Newbie Takes Towards Building A Successful Internet Business

Overview

What does the unwritten Guru Law reveal? Building a successful internet business originates with finding that ever elusive profitable niche. Having found your niche you then search for an honorable owner offering a product relevant to your niche and become an affiliate.

If money grew on apple trees, you could buy ad space on leading search engines, purchase lists, out source your work and sit back and count cash. Is it not nice to dream? The majority of us don't swim in the great ocean of wealth. Finding our money tree is as elusive as finding that profitable niche.

The truth of the matter for us, the working masses, building a successful internet business looks like this:

• Comprehensive keyword research on that niche is required;
• Select primary phrase and several highly related words and phrases to use on the main pages, home page and theme pages;
• Use these selected words and phrases for articles;
• If in a non competitive market, you can direct link to the owner's sales page or;
• Find a website editor of your choice and create blank pages for the home page, main pages, site map, link page, privacy, terms and disclaimer, articles plus other relevant information. Insert tracking code;
• Select a domain name and setup a hosting account;
• Type content into home page and main pages;
• Type content for privacy, terms and disclaimer;
• Create a site map and add links to new articles;
• Create links to pages and link page together;
• Upload your site FTP software;
• Submit your site to directories;
• Submit your site to search engines;
• Advertise on PPC services.

Your attention please; before you run up the stairway to internet financial success, you must learn to walk before you run.

Al Bernsteing said. "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction".

Your First Step Towards A Successful Internet Business

Your path to success kicks off with your minisite creation.

Before you start having anxiety attacks, please be advised that it is not difficult or expensive. Unless, you are going to be a professional web designer and offer your services as such, purchasing one of the more expensive website editors as Adobe Golive, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and Web Design HQ, is a decisive decision, otherwise there is a freeway.

Let's get started. You need a website editor from a free source. SeaMonkey is one of the most powerful and easy to use website editors produced by Mozilla.

In "How to Create a Minisite in 30 Minutes OR Less" by Louis Allport, there are 14 videos devoted to teaching you how-to and the use of SeaMonkey. Mozilla provides help pages, support, FAQ section and community support forums. With this editor, you can view and modify HTML code, view Meta tags and edit in normal code. It is all you need to create a professional looking internet marketing mini site.

Your Second Step Towards A Successful Internet Business

Now, you are down the path a little ways, you need a free link checking software. Do not omit this step. If you want to have an anxiety attack, omit this step, upload you site to your host account and stare a 404 error, stating, "page not found".

Avoid this unpleasant experience by downloading entirely free software called Xenus Link Sleuth. The most recent version 1.2i checks web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets.

It displays a continuously updated list of URLs, which can sort by criteria. You can produce a report at any time by clicking on file. A menu will appear, asking you for location of document or URL.

Just enter your folder or type in your URL. Use the browser button to select your folder from Documents or Desktop. Xenu will provide you with a link status report. If everything is "green", fine. You do not want to see "red". I am speaking literally and not figuratively, of course.

Your Third Step Towards Successful Internet Business

You require reliable FTP software (File Transfer Protocol). You can publish with Windows and there is publisher in SeaMonkey, but WS_FTP Home, offering a one month trial, is far more responsive.

Once you install your FTP software, you quickly download your files and upload to your host account. It is that simple.

Your folder will be loaded on the left side. Simply high light the files with your cursor and click the middle arrow to upload to the right.

Think of the process as Documents and Settings and Desktop are filing cabinets; inside your filing cabinets are folders and inside your folders are files. You open your cabinet select a folder, take out the files and transfer the data in the files to the remote site (your host account).

Just remember when you open a host account, you need to know the root directory for the that host account. Enter the root directory in the remote site navigation bar on the right side. For Godaddy, it is forward slash (/). Most other hosting companies use www. If you are having any difficulties, there is a help section.

 Your Fourth Step Towards A Successful Internet Business

You think you have discovered alien writings carved on a cave wall, left there by the infamous Internet Guru tribe. Never fear it is only HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). It is the authoring software language used on the Internet's World Wide Web. HTML is for creating World Wide Web pages.

Yes, you must understand basic HTML, if you want to make your mini site more customer friendly and professional looking. W3Schools offers free HTML tutorials. W3Schools teaches by example; then asks you to Try-It-Yourself.

Visualize a hand written letter. Html is set up very similar to the way your format a letter:

• In a letter, you place your return address at the top of letter. In html you place the page title and some descriptive information about you webpage at the top referred to as the header.
• This information in the header is within tags. The tags are bracketed with "". The header opens with bracket, html, bracket and closes with bracket, /html, bracket. The presence of backslash "/" is the difference between opening and closing tags.
• The tag is the information contained between the brackets. Html tags send instructions to the web browser. The tag tells the browser where to place the information on the page and how to format the information.
• In a letter, the content of the letter follows the address. In html the body of the text follows and this text is contained between bracket, body, bracket...bracket, /body, bracket, tags.
• Within the body tags, there are table tags bracket, table, bracket...bracket,/table, bracket. These tags inform the browser to format text into rows and columns.
• Visualizing html in terms of a letter will help you get started. Understanding basic html provides you with where and how to copy and paste HTML code, designed to enhance your website, in the correct location.

Feeling full of oneself? You should be. You have completed the construction of your first mini website, checked all the links, uploaded your site to your host account and even learned a little HTML. All this, of course, exclusive of your hosting and domain name fee, has been "free". Isn't the word free a soothing sound? You now are on your way towards building a successful internet business.