When I first started in my Home Based Business I was overwhelmed by my lack of knowledge on how to market on the Internet. There were literally hundreds of different techniques and skills that I needed to develop. Where was I going to learn these marketing techniques to get my home based business started. There are thousands of sites on the web on all of the subjects that I needed to study but I wasn’t sure exactly which site was going to give me the best information.
So with that in mind, I decided to create this list of what I think are the top sites for each topic. Check out each site and I hope this helps you get a head start on building your home based business.
Blog Platforms
If your going to market your home based business on the Internet you must have a central location or hub for your customers to go to. Creating a blog is free and a great place to send your potential customers.
Here are my top choices:
WordPress
WordPress is versatile and highly customizable, though the interface’s text-based buttons might confuse inexperienced users. I use WordPress for my blog.
This full-featured blog platform offers quick setup, easy customization of templates, and a simple-to-use interface.
Service for hosting and publishing weblogs and photo albums.
Though Tripod offers plenty of customizable templates and the ability to generate nice-looking photo galleries, its pages load much too slowly.
Squarespace provides highly configurable blog pages, but you’ll have to figure out the program’s unintuitive drag-and-drop module system.
Video streaming
Video is one the quickest and easiest ways to create huge amounts of traffic for you home based business. You could become an Internet Guru with just one great video!
The most popular video streaming website, YouTube has thousands of videos on nearly every topic imaginable, all user submitted and free to watch. The videos are currently offered in wide screen format, though most videos upload retain the original 4:3 aspect ratio. In addition to wide screen, videos can now be uploaded and viewed in high quality.
Vimeo
Vimeo is a sophisticated, free video sharing website. Basic users are allowed to upload up to 500MB of video content per week, or pay for an account to upload more. Vimeo attracts a wide array of video artists, and is often used to upload short movies, skits, and portfolios. The website supports full HD streaming and wide screen format, as well as a wide array of video codec support, making it the ideal location to watch and share high-quality and HD personal videos.
Metacafe rocketed to popularity with their page view money earning system. Many videos on the website are duplicates from YouTube, but in addition to that content, there is a wide array of video tutorials on many subjects, including DIY hacks, magic, and science experiments. If you’re interested in making money off your video’s page views, Metacafe is the ideal website to use.
The first website to legally offer a wide array of free TV shows, Hulu was founded by NBC and offers dozens of free TV series, both current and off-air broadcasts. Some of the TV shows offered includes: The Simpson’s, Family Guy, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Bones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Office.
In addition to offering TV shows, Hulu also has a catalog of movies available to watch, including such popular shows as: Spy Game, Liar Liar, Ghostbusters, Men in Black, and The Karate Kid.
Veoh
Veoh is a video content website, but has made a name for itself by partnering with different companies to offer TV shows for free. Offering TV shows not available from Hulu, you can watch popular shows such as: The Big Bang Theory, Friends, According to Jim, CSI, and Everwood.
In addition to a large supply of free TV shows, Veoh also offers user submitted content, including animations, home videos, and funny clips.
Article Directories
Article marketing is a great way to attract attention to your blog or hub when starting your home based business. You can create great back links to your blog by placing them in your articles which will make your site rank higher with all of the search engines such as Google,Yahoo and Bing
In my opinion EzineArticles is the best and most credible site and has the highest ranking by Alexa. It takes a few days when are first starting to submit articles here but once you get going they begin to get published quick and rank higher on the search engines than any other directory. Publish every article here first. Once it has been published you can place the same article on other sites.
Go Articles is claim to fame is that it is the World’s Largest Article directory. There are over 1.9 million articles and 150,000 + authors.
Articlebase
Why submit articles at Articlesbase.com? Many of us write high quality articles, but we don’t have many site visitors reading our work. At ArticlesBase.com you can submit an article and literally have thousands of readers worldwide, as your article is syndicated across the globe. Many people visit ArticlesBase.com to gather free articles to display on their websites.
We offer free articles, free web content, and free article feeds which are submitted by our network of quality registered authors. Once registered, our authors are free to submit articles for distribution to Ezines, affiliated websites and anyone else who wishes to use our article database.
PubArticles
With an eye on all the latest technologies, our aim is to consistently offer exclusive but free article submission service and article marketing service to our member that requires and expects nothing less.
Seo (Search Engine Optimization)
SEO or (search engine optimization) is a must for any home based business owner or anyone marketing on the Internet. There are hundreds of sites out there claiming to be SEO experts. Be very careful if you are going to hire anyone to do SEO for you. Check out there credentials and do some due diligence and see how their site ranks on Alexa or SEOmoz. You can learn the basics yourself by checking out the sites below.
Alexa is useful resource for people to discover information about websites. You can use Alexa to discover how popular a site is, to find new sites, to learn who owns a site and a lot more. Whether you are a web professional trying to size up your online competition or you’re just trying to find the best website to buy a new TV, Alexa is for you.
The SEOmoz tool-set includes over twenty SEO tools designed to help with every aspect of search engine optimization, including on-page targeting, site crawlability, competitive analysis, rank checking and keyword difficulty.
HubSpot’s vision is to provide a (killer) marketing application and provide great advice to small businesses enabling them to leverage these disruptive effects of the Internet to “get found” by more prospects shopping in their niche and to convert a higher percentage of prospects into customers.
Google Webmaster Central
What are some simple ways that I can improve my website’s performance in Google?” There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar with the topic. We thought it’d be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites’ crawlability and indexing.
Well that’s my list folks. Anyone that already has a home based business or just starting one can benefit from all of these sites. This list will give you a head start and shorten your learning curve to get you started in the right direction.
See you soon,
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