Elements that Help Customers and Web Crawlers Visiting Your Site: Basic Design Principles | Search Friendly Principles
Get Paid for Linking to Other Sites: What is an Affiliate Program? | Finding the Programs Right for Your Site
How To Create a Successful E-Business: Set-Up | Reassurance
How to Increase Visits and Sales: Involving Customers | Partnering With Other Sites

Making money online is a lot easier than you may think. This site is to serve as a reference for beginning entrepreneurs: offering tips, tools, and links from others in e-commerce. It is aimed at entrepreneurs at all levels, from those who want to place a few links on their personal homepage to those who wish to start up a new business online. With good design, advertising, and the proper direction, nearly anyone can make a dot.com success.

Designing a Friendly Site: Elements that Help Customers and Web Crawlers Visiting Your Site

  • Basic Design Principles - The things you should keep in mind while creating your site and a breakdown of the basic pages that should be included on every site
  • Search Friendly Principles - A listing of the features "web crawlers" give priority to and those they punish sites for including and a section on how to submit to search engines

Becoming an Affiliate: The Simplest Way to Make Money Online

Opening Your Own Store: How To Create a Successful E-Business

  • Set-Up - A list of the additional elements online stores should include and links to some sites that let you set up customizable online stores
  • Reassurance - Suggestions on how to make your customers comfortable purchasing from you, including: being available to answer questions, presenting clear policies, signs they can trust, and following up after a purchase is made

Marketing Your Site: How to Increase Visits and Sales

  • Involving Customers - Marketing your site through increased customer contact. Suggestions include: providing your contact information and using email, polls/feedback forms, and live chats/dissussion forums/bulletin boards or web boards
  • Partnering with Other Sites - Marketing your site through buisness to buisness relationships, banners/link exchange programs, or starting your own affiliate program

About This Site

  • A description of why this site was created and a listing of the references used

Designing a Friendly Site | Becoming an Affiliate | Opening Your Own Store | Marketing Your Site | About This Site

Copyright © December 2004 by Valerie Rigsbee