Any one who had decided to start their own "WORK AT HOME" business , is going to make mistakes along way. Remember, no one is perfect, so it is expected to make mistakes as you learn. Many "WORK AT HOME" mistakes can be avoided , when we learn from mistakes of others.

1. First of all, before you start a home based business, you must know what it is you'll be doing. You need to educate yourself about your "work at home" business. For example , Internet Marketing , Placing classifieds , getting a WEB SITE ,Follow-ups ,etc. Look at it this way , say you sign up someone under you , and they need help getting started , how are you going to help them if you do not even know this? Expect your first 6 months or so to be a learning process for you.

2. SPAM What is SPAM?

Simply put, SPAM is unsolicited advertising. It is our belief that SPAM is in eye of person being SPAMMED, not person sending SPAM. While you may not consider a message to be Spam, if person receiving it does, it's SPAM. If you are not 100% certain that person or persons you are advertising your Surfside Internet site to will not complain, DO NOT advertise your site to that person or persons. Any SPAM complaint is cause for immediate termination, no second chances, no questions asked. This is a very serious matter. Surfside Internet reserves right to take legal action against any person or persons involved in SPAMMING

What types of advertising are considered SPAM?

Bulk e-mailing (sending an e-mail advertisement to persons listed on an e-mail address lead list).

Advertising with bulk e-mail services (companies who will send an e-mail advertisement to persons listed on an e-mail address lead list for you).

"Bounce back" e-mailing (sending an e-mail advertisement in reply to an e-mail advertisement that was sent to you).

Advertising your Surfside Internet site to people that you don't know, who didn't specifically request information.

Cross-posting or advertising to Usenet newsgroups, forum or discussion lists, and online chats (IRC) is not allowed.

These are only examples. Remember, SPAMMING includes ANY unsolicited advertising.

First of all, most of your traffic is going to come from Search Engines and Directories. (Mostly Google and Yahoo) The most important and by far best way to get your website listed in Search Engines,is adding quality and relevant links to your website. This method is known as reciprocal links.

So how do you get reciprocal links? The easiest way is to do a search using your favorite search engine [Google is best to start with) For example, let's say your website is about a home based business, and your key words for your site are "work from home", then what you want to do is go to http://www.google.com and type "work from home""add your link" or "work from home""link exchange".There will be many pages that come up in your search of websites that are willing to exchange links with you. When visiting these websites you will need to look for information on how to exchange links with these sites. Make sure before you request a link exchange, you place their link on your site first.

Why are reciprocal links important? Because link popularity is method most Search Engines use in determining how high a website is ranked and what position it will be placed in.

The most well known Search Engines that use link popularity is Google.http://www.google.com Others that use this method as well are: Altavista http://www.altavista.com, Excite http://www.excite.com and Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com

It will take alot of time and work in beginning to get links added to your website, but it will be well worth it in end. As you gain more links to your site, Search Engines spider your web pages looking for other sites linking to yours. The more sites these spiders find linking to your site more popularity ranking your website gets. This will give you a higher ranking position when someone searches web.

The second best way to bring free traffic to your website is writing articles. With a little work on a monthly basis, writing articles, you will be surprised by all free traffic this will bring to your website.