Patience, Analysis keys to ideas that pan out Small business owners are constantly in search of new ideas to help build and strengthen their existing businesses. Whether you operate an on-line or off-line (traditional) business, you have probably had exhilarating feeling of developing what you think is next great marketing idea or new product for your business, only to have feeling vanish when idea turn sour.

As a small business owner myself and a professional marketer, I have learned one important lesson about idea generation in business: it’s 8th idea that counts. My experience has shown me that very first idea that is generated to solve a particular problem may not be solution, but as long as you keep that idea alive and allow it to grow and change, it becomes an increasingly better idea. Eventually idea grows into a very profitable and manageable business plan. In my case, it seems that it’s often 8th idea that is a real winner.

It Happened to Me…

I’ll draw on personal experience for an example. When I launched my first online business a number of years ago, I had idea to take advantage of my experience as a professional marketer in staffing and employment industry to bring valuable knowledge and information to general public. My first venture was a resume writing website, which was neither a success nor a failure. In short, it really did nothing.

As I look back on that venture, I realize now that I simply did not have enough information or internet savvy to put together a reasonably decent website and market it effectively. I pulled business offline after only 3 months. What I did not do, however, was kill original idea.

Online marketing has gone from link exchanges, banner advertisements or banner exchanges to pay per click, and beyond. One of best ways to obtain traffic to a web site while avoiding massive costs of other such techniques is to optimize your web site for top search engine portals like Google for instance.

For those involved in search engine optimization and search engine marketing, there is nothing more rewarding than obtaining prominent results from worlds leading search portals.

In today's world, business takes place constantly and quickly as millions of users are connected to Internet at all times of day. Many of these users or "surfers" have access to leading search engines portals to start looking for information related to their own interests and research.

With millions of users searching 24 hours a day, why then can it take months for your web site submissions to be received? A further look into process is required.

It is important to note that major search engines all have a different approach to how they prefer submissions. Regardless of their preference, do not cause detriment to your optimization campaign by only relying on automated submission programs or hiring a firm to perform only submissions for you.

Before you submit your site to search engines, ensure that you have optimized your meta tags.

Meta tags are so-called hidden text that will not be rendered by browser. You can easily get access to them, however, by selecting View, Source in your browser. They are normally placed after