Few businesses these days are without a website and, as a work from home business, your website is one of the most powerful tools you have available. A good website can really work for you, but you need to know what you're doing.

Hire Foreign Designers

Web design is something that you shouldn't try to do yourself, unless you really know what you're doing — you’ve probably seen what happens when incapable people try this. Hiring a web designer, though, can be quite expensive.

However, the Internet puts you in touch with designers all over the world, and it's easy to hire one of them relatively cheaply to design your website. They don't do any worse of a job than someone in your country would, it just happens that your few hundred dollars is worth as much to someone in India or Romania as a few thousand would be to you or I.

Use Search Engine Optimization

There are a heck of a lot of websites out there with thousands being added every day. Search engines try to return everything relevant to a user's search. So how can you possibly get your site ahead of the thousands of others search engine think are relevant to your keywords?

The answer is to use basic search engine optimization techniques. For example, make sure you use phrases you think your target audience will be searching for (your 'keywords'), and include them in your web addresses if possible.

For this article, for example, www.website.com/home-business-website would be a much better web address than www.website.com/articles/205.

That's just a brief introduction — there's a lot more to Search Engine Optimization than can be covered here.

Have Lots of Useful Content

When you have a website, you're not just trying to reach people who were searching for you — you're trying to get people to check out your website, read your latest news and offers etc. The best way to do this is to add fresh and useful content on a regular basis.

Write short articles about topics your customers are interested in. If your home business is computer repair, for example, you might keep track of the latest virus threats on your site and offer help to anyone affected.

Make It Easy to Update

You should make sure that whatever software you're using to design your website makes it easy to post new articles. One solution to easily updating a site is to add a blog.

Keep a Weblog

One of the simplest ways to have fresh, useful content on your site is to keep a weblog (or 'blog'). A blog is a series of entries, like entries in a diary, that are displayed on your site starting with the most recent first. It is easy to log in and quickly write a new entry, and it can be as short or as long as you like.

For your home business' blog, the only rule to stick to is not to post anything that isn't related to your industry and your work. It might be great that you've got a new baby or sad that your cat Mr. Tibbles died, but you should start a personal blog on another website if you want to post about personal opinions and stories. Keep your blog posts related to your site’s niche.

Let People E-Mail You with No Hassle

One of the worst mistakes people often make when they're starting a website is to think it’d be a good idea to give their customers a 'contact form' to fill out. People really, really don't like filling in forms, and you'll lose a lot of potential customers if you require them to reveal personal information before you've even talked to them.

The best way is to list your email address on your site as a clickable link, and advise customers what type of information would be useful for them to include in an email. It might sound strange, but people are far more willing to go to the trouble of typing their thoughts when it's on their own terms, and not into an annoying web form.

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