Your Questions About How To Do Business Online Tips

Jere answers:

You can set up an easy beginner store easily enough through Yahoo or eBay. The real trick to selling online is getting traffic. That is a business skill of it’s own, and one I’m learning myself. It’s all about ranking in Google search (and to a lesser extent Yahoo). Check the “Catagories” at my friend Lynn’s blog site for tons of great info on how to do this. She pushes a lot of paid products there, too (as you’d expect), but the amount of free info is amazing. You can start a web business for almost nothing if you look around.

Jere answers:

Have you heard of Office Live Small Business? It’s template-based, so you don’t need to know or learn how to code, plus it’s extremely inexpensive. Remember that you get what you pay for with free website building services—someone else’s ads all over your site. Office Live Small Business is ad free. It also supports online commerce, if you’re interested in selling your products through your website.

Check it out at http://www.smallbusiness.officelive.com.

For great tips and conversation about running a small business website, join the community over on the Office Live Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/officelive.

Cheers,
Kate
MSFT Office Live Outreach Team

Jere answers:

The best way to make money online without spending a penny is through get paid to programs(get paid to read email ,get paid to do surveys etc) A lot of them are scams . But in my blog I have listed the most legitimate and trusted programs . You can contact me for any other question.

Jere answers:

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is to first set up a website and publish its domain name on major search directories such as Google.com, Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?… And MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services. In a sense, these search directories are a very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage fail to contain “generic” keywords, then anyone using such “generic” queries will not be able to discover your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website, in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website with placement of various critical metatags that can surely achieve a high search engine presence and increase Internet traffic to your website. These metatag strategies work well with published webpages at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the Internet audience and their incoming setup. For example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages take too long to load up and therefore analog users will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple question, “Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or DSL?” And if you had to choose between these two users for maximum marketability, then select analog users since 80% of most resident users are still analog Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the “Title” metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The “Title” should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the “Title” is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the “Description” which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes one’s goods and services.

And the very last category – “Keywords” are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as “spamdexed entries” which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. “Spamdexing” when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.

Here’s an example of a very highly-placed website on Yahoo.com: Begin with the search query “pizza downtown los angeles.” It will bring up some 1.4 million+ websites as results. Check out where “Pizza Next Door” is ranked. It’s in the Top Five! Again, Pizza Next Door’s high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Yahoo’s publication guidelines.

Good luck!

Jere answers:

One of the simplest ways to do this is by going to www.godaddy.com and doing a domain search.
You will be able to check as many domain names as you like. Some quick tips are that dot com’s are preferred and you should try and keep the domain as short as possible.

Once you find the domain you want you can purchase it right from GoDaddy and they host it there. This is only the first step, you still need an affiliate website to promote or one of your own for the domain you chose to point to.

There are other services out there such as hostgator as you become more advanced and find yourself buying a lot of domains.