• You decided on your business! Did business plan & your research. Found the right business for you. Set a work schedule around your kids and husband. 
  You have the spot in your house for your business
• You have your website and domain name and your set to go.

Your website!

1. Is it nice to look at? Choose an easy to look at layout and colors.
2. Your email address ( you@ -your-website.com) on the home page in an easy to find place? Ever been to a website and not seen the email address to ask a question? It can frustrate potential customers! Your competition most likely has theirs where it can be seen
3. Name you pages. Your home page will be your index page ( automatically)
   But if you have a shopping page and sales page be sure to name them!  ( Look up to your browser and see the name of this page) If you don't do it then it will most likely be new page 1 or new page 2 and so on. And if someone decides to send your page by email the whole website and page is there.
   This page would show as 
   http://www.networkofconnections.com/MakingtheWAHDecision2.htm
   Looks better then http:/www.networkofconnections.com/newpage1.htm
   Plus search engines also will put the page name on your listing if it is on a page other then your index page.
4. Key words and phrases! Search engines use these. Sitepro.com is a great website to learn about keyworkds and phrases. Taking the time to do them can make a hughe difference. trafficzap.com  is also a good place to visit!
   they have a free Meta Tag Generato. KMap is also a good place to visit for help
   
5. Added extra's you may or may not want. It is an individual decision and are optional extra's.
   

   Clock with date and time A refer this site option to allow people to send your site to a friend a bookmark this page option A counter showing how many visitors Guest Book Customer comments page - This can be good for business (sales) A box showing how many customers on line

6. Your websites content. Example- Let's say your website sells candles.
   Having an article or tips page can be helpful, not only does this let the customers know you care about more then just selling them a candle or whatever you sell but you also took the time to offer tips on it. 
   Giving that little  extra can make a big difference to visitors ( potential customers)
   And the article itself can alsoget grabbed by the search engines! See your site stats for key words to see how people are finding you.
   To me it is a win win thing to do!
   
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Website Stats

• Hits - A hit is any response from the server on behalf of a request sent from a browser. This includes any response from the server, not only text files or documents. If, for example, a HTML page has two images embedded, the server generates three hits if this page is requested: one hit for the HTML page itself and two hits for the two inline images.
• Visits - the (approximate) number of actual individual visitors.  This number tries to estimate how many people stopped by your site.  But it does not give you any information about how long they stayed or how many pages they looked at.
• Page Views - Page views are all files which either have a text file suffix (.html, .text) or which are directory index files. This number allows to estimate the number of "real" documents transmitted by your server.