This is the first of a three part series on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), it’s by no means a comprehensive guide but if you follow the guide you’ll be getting your website off to a good start.

Keywords
Before you start designing or tweaking your site for search engines it is essential to determine what the keywords [...]

While Alexa traffic rankings are not a perfect way of determining a web sites traffic they are still useful for comparing your site to a site to which you do not have access to the logs. Additionally services such as Text Link Ads, for example, determine the price of ads on your site using your [...]

If you decide that the right business for you is an Internet business the you are going to have to learn about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and by far the biggest and most important Search Engine (SE) is Google. Google uses a patented technology known as PageRank (along with several other factors) to determine the [...]

After the Million Dollar Homepage and all the numerous copycat versions it’s tempting to dismiss anything with the “million dollar” in the title, yet Graham Langdon’s Million Dollar Wiki is actually a new twist on the idea. Instead of offering pixels he is offering a page on a Wiki (a wiki is a site that [...]

As an affiliate marketing business you can sell almost anything without the hassle of having to buy stock, worry about logistics, cashflow, stock levels etc. Your only concern will be setting up and marketing website that will act as an online store front.
Affiliate schemes are schemes which pay you a commission on a specific [...]

Here’s a simple business idea, gather all auctions on eBay with going for one dollar or less and with just one hour left, buy the bargains re-list them properly (in the right category, with a good description and photo) and sell them on at a profit. Alternatively you could do what Internet entrepreneurs Mike Powell [...]

I’ve just recieved a mailshot from Barclays Bank introducing me to their new website www.barclays-skills.com where they apparently offer “free small business skills training” in association with Mindleaders. As I’m obsessed with learning I thought I’d give it a go and picked the course about “Finding and Keeping Customers”.
Given I’ve spent a lot of time [...]

Whatever your Internet business idea choosing a domain name is going to impact on it’s success or failure. The domain name is the name that visitors will type into their browser to visit your site, for example this sites domain name is businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk. Domain names come in to parts, the name and the Top Level [...]

The often used term Web 2.0 is said to be all about social-networking sites, that is sites where users interact with the site owner (blogs) or with each other on community/networking sites. In other words while the initial dot com bubble focused on ecommerce, current Internet businesses tend to focus on building communities, for example [...]

July was to be my Internet Business Opportunities month, a month in which I planned to cover a wide range of topics to do with starting, running and growing an Internet business. Unfortunately while I’d nicely planned out the content and arranged several guest posts I had not factored enough leeway into my schedule to [...]