Starting an online business is probably one of simplest things to do. You make decision that you want to make some money on internet. You join a few free affiliate programs, maybe a couple of free mlm programs and if you’re really into it, you get your own domain name and web site.

So far your business expenses are peanuts and you can close shop anytime without any regrets. You don’t have a vested interest in your business due to lack of a financial commitment. That’s how about 80% of so called “online business owners” operate. No concept, no plan and no future.

Then there’s another group of “online business owners” who are all fired up about their new Endeavour and nothing can stop them. They do everything they’ve been told by whom ever they listen to and they also spend a considerably amount of money to get their business going. There’s really nothing wrong with this other than that they are too eager and too motivated to get their business off ground. Unfortunately most of them will quite after a few months. Unfortunately this is mostly due to avoidable mistakes.

The third and smallest group are folks who actually made it. Well, let me define “made it” for a moment. I call a business a success if you can make a profit after you paid all expenses and I mean all expenses. Now you can argue if it is worthwhile to put in so much work for not much in return. This is a call that every one of you has to make on your own.

I purposely left out group with guys who are making more money a day than most of us make in a year. First, it is completely unrealistic to assume that you actually will achieve same results as “big ones” with limited resources you have. Second, these guys may have started as a one man show, but today they are a corporation with many employees like every other company doing big business on internet.

Back to 3 groups I mentioned before. Group #1, no concept, no plan, no future group, is not even worth mentioning. They are just a waste of time. Group #3, guys who ‘made it’, is out o reach at moment. The fact that you’re reading this article puts you into group #2 category. You’re eager to build your business and you’re determined to make it happen. I hope by pointing out pitfalls you will actually avoid mistakes I made and it will bring you a step closer to your ultimate goal. Be your own boss.

Here’s a list of common mistakes every startup online business should avoid.

If you have an online home based business you know that routing traffic to your web page is incredibly important. Not only in order to make sales and increase revenues but to continue your business. However, you probably have realized that getting your web page noticed and getting a high ranking result from search engines is difficult. In light of that, here are a couple of tips you can use that will help you increase traffic to your web page.

First, you will need to do some research to see where your page ranks in several different search engines. Do this by performing searches on keywords you think are relevant to your web page. Once you have this information, you will be able to take action and become better than your competitors whose pages are being returned as higher relevant results. No matter where you rank in results, if it is less than number one you have some work to do. So, take a look at all web pages that are ranked higher than yours and see what these pages have that yours does not. Evaluating your competition will help your Web page become stronger and more competitive, something that is important to your bottom line.

You need to do this kind of research for all different keywords that pertain most to your Web page and that people search for most often. You want your web page to rank high in results for a number of keywords, so be diligent about researching what other web pages are doing and what you can do to get your page returned higher in results.