The following 25 steps are your foundation to creating a successful and profitable Website. This list will always continue to expand as the Internet grows, but if you adapt these 25 proven strategies to your own marketplace, your online business should be a success.

1. Choose the right domain name
2. Choose the right web designer
3. Choose the right ISP and Web Host
4. Create a professional looking Website
5. Optimize your Website for the Search Engines and directories
6. Make sure your Website is easy to navigate
7. Establish your credibility early and in many different ways
8. Create lots of free information and up-to-date content
9. Write and publish your own Free Ezine
10. Gather customer testimonials & publish them on your Website
11. Establish great customer support right from the start
12. Choose products and services that sell easily on the Internet
13. Develop powerful benefit packed sales letter and ads
14. Follow-up all sales letters and ads at least 7 times
15. Test and re-test all marketing efforts
16. The power of Email Marketing is a key to online success
17. Use opt-in email marketing with autoresponders
18. Build up your own opt-in database
19. Sell over and over to your own house list
20. Accept credit cards and all other online payment options
21. Automate your Website to process orders and to track data
22. Create your own Affiliate or Associate program
23. Develop Joint Venture projects
24. Constantly work at building your Brand name Online
25. Make it easy for your visitors to return to your Website

This article was written by Claudia.

“Oh boy! It’s time to pick out your new domain name. If you’re one of the lucky internet marketers, your creative name (you know, something to the point and descriptive like “yummybrownies” or “expertpondbuilders”) might be sitting there, available to purchase. But for most of us, the domain name we want has already been taken.

Certain niches are more saturated than others, like those dealing with the area of internet marketing. So, you might encounter obstacles in finding an available domain name that also is one you will feel comfortable with. As example, I had a hard time when I was choosing the domain name for my SEO consulting website. Every name I kept coming up with (meaning that I could live with it for the rest of my website’s life) was taken. I spent hours and hours until I finally settled on one.”

Read this article from SEO Innovation.