Homework #5

Starting a web based business article. (Words 190)

In these articles I was able to learn more about making my own web business. I can see that it takes many steps. One of the most important things is the idea for a good business you want something that others want as well. And what is enjoyable to you. You then need that site to have the capability to accept credit cards ect. After that then you need to get someone to host your site. That would then give you a domain name. (.com is most widely used.) You want to have a site that is easy to remember as well. Then anyone is able to see and use the site that you made. You can put it on search engine sites such as google to start getting traffic to that site. One of the ways to get more traffic is to simply update your sites content frequently. With good quality content. And people will be more interested in coming back at a later time. By having a interesting site with something that the visitors want then they will be much more likely to come back at a later time.

Guest speaker, Brother Kent Lundin (Words 367)

I really enjoyed the guest speaker coming and helping us to understand more about web businesses. I learned some more of the basic steps that it takes to make a great website. We need to decide on a good web business make a site and this next step is one that I have not thought much about before but it is one that can tare your site down if you are not careful. That is looking into the legal issues about it. Whatever we do we want to always make sure that we are doing things the legal way. And the rest of the time can be spent on promoting that website. One of the more interesting facts that he stated while teaching us is he explained how google makes most of their money. They make 90% of their income by advertisements that are usually found in the top right corner when you do a search in google. I also learned how we are able to pay them and get our own advertisements there. It is not always cheap to do that but when someone buys something from your site then it all of a sudden becomes more then worth it and in the long run it can start to pay for itself. We need to pay special attention to the what we use as our key words to get people to that site. You are then able to later see which of those words had the most positive effect. Many people think that all they need for a good website is a lot of traffic to that website but there is a big difference between just random people coming to your site and people who actually have an interest on what you are offering. Using the right keywords can really make a big difference for your site. But you always need to pay close attention to what is giving you back the most positive results. It is best to start this a little at a time. If you are expecting everything in one day then you might get discouraged and not do as good later on. It was a great talk!!!