The secret to making a lot of money online with your home based business is there is no secret. To succeed it is imperative that you treat it like a real business and work your butt off promoting it. Real success measured online is defined by how high your website ranks in the search engines and that is the key to making money online.

The first thing you need to do is optimize your website for your selected keywords. Add your keywords throughout the text of your web page, title, alt images, h1 headers, and meta tags. Optimal keyword density is somewhere around 1-3%. Too much and the search engines will penalize you, too little and they won't pick you up at all.

The next and most important step to making money online is building back links. The more links you have pointing back to your web site, the higher you will rank in the search engines. Back links from high authority sites will also help boost your rankings in the search engines. Any web page that has a page rank of four or higher are usually considered to be high authority.

Building enough back links to get your website ranked in the search engines will take time. You just have to be patient and persistent with your efforts. Drawing up a daily, weekly, and monthly agenda is the best way to boost your back links. Sticking to the agenda will virtually success and money for your home based business. 97% of the people who get into the home based business niche however fail to stick with it and ultimately quit before any money is made.

To succeed with your home based business and make money online, your daily agenda should include but not be limited to writing articles, blogging, posting in forums, commenting on blogs, and reciprocal linking. Using these methods on a daily basis and doing it over months at a time will lock your home based business in the top of the search engines and guarantee your web page loads of free organic traffic. It is possible to make money online without spending money first.

Once your web site is on page one or two of Google and the like for your selected keywords, you should rinse and repeat the process for more keywords. In fact, you should make a separate page for each of the keywords you choose and repeat the process over and over until you've locked a top spot for good number of different keywords. Your web site should be on the top page for hundreds of different keywords after years of using these methods. At that point, your traffic will be through the roof!