If you are interested in starting a web based business, or already have one, one of your main concerns is making your business a success. Below are some basic helpful hints that will get you started in the right direction.

• Start a blog that has a link to your website.
  
• Join forums or message boards that relate to your business and include a link to your website in your signature.
  
• If you have an eBay account, put a link to your website on your about me page.
• Exchange link banners with other websites
• Get business cards and pass them around. Put them in the packages that you ship.
• Have text on your site that is descriptive and clearly describes what your business is about. Be careful not to use the same keywords over and over in your text because this can be treated as spam by search engines.
  
• Add meta titles, keywords, and descriptions to all of your pages.
  
• Make sure that your Site Map page is active on your website.
• When you upload photos to your site, add a description with the alt tag.
• Submit your site to Google http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

If you are interested in starting a website of your own, but don't know where to start or what to sell, you may want to consider hiring a consultant to help you out. Pure Ecommerce offers a la carte consulting services that can help you in almost every aspect of  owning and operating a web based business.