Marketing is a Must

If you are reading this, you may seriously be considering starting an online business. Congratulations!

The whole point of starting an online business is to make money, and in order to do so you need traffic. Unless you find ways to get your website notice you won't make money. You need people knocking at your door type thing or the whole point of having a website, with ghosts for visitors is pointless.

More Traffic translates to Sales which means Income for you!

Here are some tips or what you can do to start getting traffic to your site:

Create a blog at sites such as HubPages, Wordpress, GoArticles, Blogger, EzineArticles and Weebly and start posting reviews on products and/or services, as well as writing articles on your area of expertise. Then you can start "pinging" your pages at sites such as Pingomatic, Reddit, Scrub the web, Site Explorer, Entire Web, Search Sight, Cuil, Boing Boing, Autopinger, Ping my blog, Feedping, Pingler, and Ping FM. By 'pinging' your pages, you will have a better chance of being picked up by search engines. 

Another important thing to make your online presence known is to join popular forums such as WarriorForum. In forum sites you are able to edit your signature to include a link, and you can use that to link it to your blog sites. This will get people more familiar with you and will start following you around if they like what you have to say.

You should get into the habit of also posting press releases every few weeks at sites such as PRweb, free-press-release, prlog and pressreleasepointin on your favorable review of a product and/or service. You can use most of these services for fee, but if you pay a small fee, they will guarantee that your press release is picked up by all major search engines, potentially sending thousands of visitors to your pages.

Become an active part of the social network community and get accounts with Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, My Space, FourSquare, YouTube and Google Buzz . Use social bookmark services as well, the most popular ones are StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, addthis, ask, ballhype, digg, delicious, live, and reddit.