One of the biggest online marketing myths that I have ever heard of is that all you need is a website and people will come flocking in droves to give you their money.  This could not be further from the  truth,  yet new people are falling for it everyday.

First of all, search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing are in it for the money.  They don't just exist for the fun of it. They make money by selling advertisement and they sell advertisement by providing quality content.  If you have one of those company replicated websites, you have to remember that thousands of others have the same site with the same information on it. So then, other than the contact information, what makes yours any different from all of the others?  Nothing!  Absolutely nothing.  As a matter of fact, most search engines will not even add those pages to their index, so you will never be found that way.

To have any hope of getting indexed and therefore getting some type of organic search engine traffic, your website needs to be unique and it needs to have information that will be of value to others. Even with that, let's not think that the traffic will come immediately.

Search engine optimization or SEO for short, is a full time job in itself. The process is long and tedious and it takes constant effort and tweaking.  With time and patience though you can receive results that way and avoid this mistake.

 

About the Author:
Our journey into network marketing started when we realized that our 3 college degrees did not guarantee us success and that so many other people who could care less about us, controlled our future more than we did.

Now we are running several home based businesses and we continue to publish articles that we feel will be beneficial to others who are following in our footsteps.

Jeff Reed, along with Sharon Reed are owners of Network Marketing Success Team, which gives network marketing training. We are now helping others to gain the knowledge that we have gained.