If you're looking to work from home on your computer, you want to know that you are headed in the right direction. Know that your time is well spent, your email marketing strategies are on target, and well, let's be honest you want to know your making a profit. Blogging and email follow ups are ; but what you don't always hear about are site maps. These are crucial for emailing your strategies, knowing when and where to blog as well.
At the bottom of the page you'll frequently see a little link called 'Site Map'. I always click on this link because it gives an easy way to see all the pages of the site and helps with easy navigation.
If you have a bigger site you need a site map to help your visitors navigate your website easily. This sitemap can also help the search engines find each page which increases the number of pages in their index. (Remember the search engines index each page individually as well as your website as a whole.)
Opportunities to work from home on your computer are not reserved for the tech savvy and Ivy League graduates. If you're looking to pursue an online career, learning the following can be incredibly useful.
Google Site Maps
Several years ago Google introduced the Site Map. Since then this type of listing has grown in prominence and is used by every major search engine.
This type of site map is a listing of the pages in your site which has been put into a format easily read by all search engine spiders. It's a good thing to have especially if your site has more than a few pages.
Using Meta-Tags
Even though, due to under-hand techniques, meta-tags don't have as much importance as they used to, they are still a fundamental part of search engine optimization. Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a valuable skill to learn if you'd like to work from home on your computer.
Below is an example of meta-tags for a website about Restaurants in London.
meta name=title content=Your London Restaurant Guide
meta name="Keywords" content="London restaurants, London eating, london restaurant guide"
meta name="Description" content="Your Guide to London Restaurants"
meta name="Robots" content="index, follow"
meta name="Revisit-After" content="7 Days"
In the header tag of each page you should provide tags that describe the page.
A rule of thumb is to use the search term once in the Title Tag, once or twice is the Description Tag, and once or twice in the Keywords Tag.
Internal Linking
Each link in your website is an opportunity to tell the search engines more about your website and its pages; so make each link count. Instead of naming the link to another page or part of a page 'click here' or 'more' tell your visitors (and the search engines) where you are sending them.
You can title the link 'More about London Restaurants' (for example) or 'About our Dining in London'. If you look at the results of a search on any of the larger search engines you'll quite frequently see internal (within a website) pages and links show up on the first page results.
External Links are Important
One of the most important aspects of SEO has become the links coming into your site. The more quality links you have pointing to the pages of your site the better.
If these links are from important sites and contain keywords relevant to the subject of the page to which they're linking, even better. You can swap links with relevant, non-competing sites, do a blog with links back to your main site, place comments on news stories and blogs that accept links or take part in social media.
Writing articles which get distributed throughout the Internet is another useful technique but be sure to research where and how this is done so you don't just get your content stolen and used to advertise someone else's ideas or products.
The most important part of SEO is to accurately and honestly reflect the subject content and purpose of your website. All over the world people are searching for great information, good products and interesting content. By efficiently telling the search engines what your site has to offer, you will be giving the search engines and your visitors exactly what they want.
If you're looking to work from home on your computer and make some extra income, then you should seriously consider internet marketing.
Merv Stevens works in Internet and Network Marketing. For tips and advice and to learn the most profitable ways to work from home on your computer go to his website: Wealth Success Ventures. Act now and discover how average people are achieving extraordinary results online by cashing in on the DIGITAL gold rush!