When I started online I came up with a wonderful idea for a service based business that I wanted to promote. I spent hours learning some basic HTML and attempted to build my first website. By today's standards the website was pathetic.
Being new to the internet I thought if I put up a website the world would come knocking at my door. Boy was I wrong. But at the same time you cannot fault me, these were the days when the dot com rush was on, prior to the crash in the late 90s.
Frustrated I closed that business it never really took off how I planned. It did teach me an important lesson. You can have the best website or the worst website if you don't have traffic coming to it, it is done like dinner.
One of the best things I have discovered is promoting your website with articles. It is a great way to get traffic to your website and actually build search engine love over time.
If I had to choose one thing that really help my business it has to be article submission to improve my search engine rankings. Ezinearticles.com has been one of the major sources of initial traffic and assisting in the development of search engine traffic over time.
When looking to have success with the search engines one of the main things that matter is the amount of quality content. This among other things is key to success in the search engines. You have to give the search engines what they want and that is quality content.
Look at Ezinearticles as a prime example. They encourage quality content, filter out the poor quality content through the use of software and human editors and Google and the other search engines reward them with traffic which in turn likely makes a nice revenue stream.
This is something you have to consider when you are promoting your website. You need content and lots off it. Reinvest early profits into getting more quality content. Do not waste your money buying things that do not directly improve your bottom line.
