The most important ingredient for online success is the ingredient most people pass by. Its the foundation. Its the groundwork that forms the basis of everything you do thereafter. Without laying the foundation, all your efforts will produce inferior results. This article will briefly describe the first steps to building a successful online business.
The first thing you need to do is identify your target market. This may sound overly simplistic but you need to get specific here. Who is your market? Who are they? What do they do? What do they have in common? Try to get as specific as possible and write everything down. Make a series of bullet points describing your target market, your audience, your ideal customer.
Once you know who youre targeting, you need to develop a list of keyword phrases. This should start with a visit to your competitors sites where you can view their meta tags and see what theyre targeting. The next step is to put your favorite keywords into the publicly-accessible Google keyword tool to see which words have the greatest organic search volume while encountering the least amount of competition.
Take those keyword phrases and enter...