subject: Earning Cash Online [print this page] Here, I'm going to explain to you the proper steps to starting your own online business. Even though you can locate programs on the Internet that can teach you to this process, we are going to cover the basic steps in order for you to start your own online business.
The first thing you should do before you think about doing anything else, is to go out and find a web hosting service and get a website and a domain name. Having your very own website can mean the difference between failure and long term success.
When choosing the domain name for your website, this is the URL which would type into your web browser to get to your site, you need to think about what you're going to be selling and try and find an available domain name that relates to the products you're going to be selling. For example, if you are going to be selling blue prints so people can build their own shed, a good domain name would be (shedblueprints.com).
Now you need to decide if you're going to sell your own products or if you're going to be an affiliate and sell other people's products. If you're going to be selling your own products you'll need a payment processor to handle payments from your site. For this most people choose pay pal. If you're going to be an affiliate and sell affiliate products a good place to start is with a company called clickbank.
Once you create your website and have your products for your affiliate links on your site you now need to submit your website to the search engines. This includes all search engines, not just the major search engines like Google and Yahoo.
The next thing you'll need to do is to start building back links to your site. This is where you get links from other websites that point to your site. This is one of the main keys of getting your website ranked at the top of the search engine results for your targeted keywords.
That said, if you follow all the steps above, you'll have your own online business up and running in no time. There are programs available online which can offer you more detailed instructions on getting started.
