by Simon Whincop

Do you want your online home-based business to to get massive attention and realize a huge profit? If so, you need traffic - and lots of it. Traffic is the lifeblood of your online home business, so here are some tips on how to build and maintain it:

Step #1: Optimize Your Site

What if you could get your site in the top ten of Google rankings! You profits would go through the roof! Well you can, by using a little technique known as SEO.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results for targeted keywords. Using these same keywords throughout the body of your pages' content will help search engines pick up your site.

Google provides information and guidelines to help you through the process of SEO. You should also use keyword tools. Some are free, such as Google's own http://www.goodkeywords.com. Others, such as Keywords Analyzer or Wordtracker will tell you how competitive your keyword phrase is. Use phrases relevant to your online home business - the more specific, the better.

Don't overdo it though you could get penalized for trying to spam the search engines! The most efficient way is actually to group 'like/related' keywords together and target these phrases across one optimized page.

SEO mean a lot more than just slotting in a few good keywords into your website. It can also involve a site's coding, presentation, and structure, as well as fixing problems that could prevent search engine indexing programs from spidering your site.

Step # 2: Back-Link Your Website

Building up your link popularity is essential to developing a good relationship with the major search engines. To do that you need to establish as many inbound links as possible, preferably from highly respected directories, and from websites and directories related to your niche.

Many webmasters establish links by emailing other webmasters with websites of a similar theme to ask for a link exchange. Some websites will do this job for you. A word of caution: search engines regard two-way links less favorably and do not treat them as positively as one-way links.

Step # 3: Become an Article Marketer

Google algorithms prefer sites that have relevant content and rich information related to the targeted keywords. One way of adding content to your website is by posting articles on it, either written by yourself or others. You could write your own blog (Google's Blogger is excellent and easy to set up and use) and provide a link to it on your site. Another way of ensuring your site is constantly updated with new informative material is to add a plug-in article directory such as Article Dashboard.

One of the best ways to provide literally hundreds of backlinks to your website is to become an article submitter. If you don't have the time (or inclination) to write your own articles, you can purchase Private Label Rights material relevant to your online business.

Next, submit your article to a selection of high quality article directories. Most article directories allow you to include HTML in your resource box, so you want to take advantage of this and include some anchor text with your keywords in the resource box, as well as at least one URL to your site.

Remember quality articles will drive the curious to find out more at your website.

Step # 4: Start an Email Campaign

A vital element of any home-based online business is setting up an Opt-in email campaign.

Opt-in email involves setting up an landing page where customers sign their name and email address in a prescribed box in exchange for information about a product or service they are interested in. This is done through the use squeeze page designed expressly for the purpose of harvesting email addresses of interested prospects.

You will need an autoresponder, a program designed to send emails out automatically to your customers. You create a series of follow up emails, which are then sent out at pre-programmed intervals. Your list is your lifeline to referrals and future sales since your ongoing relationship with your customers builds TRUST.

Entrepreneurship and succeeding your own home based online business do not come easy. To achieve success, all home-based online businesses need one thing: traffic. And that comes with hard work, coupled with expertise. However,if you are willing to use these techniques, preferrably focussing one at a time, you really can make your dreams come true.

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