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[F593]Free Business Search Engine

by Daniel Moro, Dan

If you are running an online business then you should never be afraid to invest in software and tools that can improve your productivity. However there are many useful online business tools available to you at no cost. In this article I reveal a tool that allows you to quickly check your search engine positioning.

Your goal for your web sites should be to get high rankings on the keyword phrases and search terms that visitors would probably use to find your web site. It is a fact that the listings in the top 10 positions receive 80% more traffic than the listings in positions 11 to 30. So you want to work towards getting your site in those top 10 results.

But if you are always checking manually to see how your web sites are ranking at the major search engines, then you probably wish there was a better way than visiting each search engine one by one.

When you have multiple web sites each with multiple keyword phrases and multiple search engines to check the number of combinations makes it even more important to have a tool that will save you time.

There are certain many tools available to do this and some of them are fairly expensive. Fortunately I discovered a neat free tool for checking all the major search engines at once.

Firstly it's important to realize that the most important search engines to check are Google, MSN and Yahoo since they account for over 80% of all searches across the Internet. I am always checking how my sites are ranking at those three search engines. It used to take me hours but not any more.

The Free Position Tool at INeedHits.com will enable you to quickly check your rankings for any keyword phrases at all three of these major search engines.

To use it simply visit INeedHits and click on Free Tools near the top of their home page.

One of the main things a new home based business opportunity has to worry about is being seen. If the customer doesn't know your home based business opportunity exists, how can he visit your store? In the "real" world, radio, television, newspaper, and postal mailings all help businesses get attention. On the internet your customer traffic comes from a variety of sources, but one in particular will make an online business more viable and successful.

What other things can you do to reach people who may be new in the area and not have had the opportunity to view or listen to your ads? Signs. By placing signs at your storefront and in other strategic places, you call out to everyone who passes. This is done on your website with an online business. Email has also become a very popular venue.

This is how search engine optimization works for the online home based business opportunity website. You need to have the biggest, most noticeable signs to get discovered. Yes, size does matter. Just like cars flying down the highway, travelers on the Internet need something to catch their attention. The words you use and how you use them to describe what your site offers is the way to bring in consumers.

This is where search engine optimization done properly will help you out. If you can figure out the best set of keywords to portray the home based business opportunity you are portraying, and if you can use those words in the content of your website, then you increase your chances of directing that speeding traffic to your website instead of directing them down the road to your competitor. If the customers don't come to you, they will go to your competition. Not a good thing.

Visit each of your competitor's websites and find out what they are doing with their online business. A little research and you might find something that is working that you had not thought of yet. Look at those who are at the top of the search engines. What is it about their web page design, content, and partners that you like. Can you borrow any of their ideas and improve the look and feel of your web pages? Are their link partners the partners you have been looking for?

Getting your online home based business opportunity to show up well on a search engine's results won't cost you a penny if you pursue search engine tactics properly. Onsite SEO is a matter of learning a little HTML. Article submission to free article directories is, well FREE! Blogging is also free if using Google's Blogger. But it can cause you to lose everything if your site doesn't appear. Most of us look for that one tool, or get one in our email, that looks like the holy grail of internet marketing tools. We open our wallets and purses freely only to find out that it is just more work. The amount of profits you get from your business will be directly related to how well you can use a consistant marketing strategy using no cost or low cost tools. If the customers can't find you, the profits will never arrive and there are times when the tools, if from a reputable source, are necessary.

Internet surfers are a fickle breed. They know what they want and seek out only that item or service. They will search, find, and buy. It doesn't matter to them where they get what they seek, but it could make all the difference to you. So when you consider why effective search engine optimization is important to the online home based business opportunity you are offering to the public, just think of the internet as a large highway with travelers speeding by.

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