The domain industry is exploding! Industry experts predict that over 500 Million domains will be active annually within the next ten years. Currently, there are more than 20 million dot com domains, and over 34 million total domains registered worldwide.

A well-designed website can be a home based business owners best friend. The first thing that you need to do is to start planning your home based business website as soon as possible. A mistake that many home based business owners make is in waiting until their company is already up and running. This can cause problems because the domain name should be on all offline marketing materials. It costs a great deal of money to have new letterhead, business cards and other printed materials redone to add the domain name. Also, having a website adds substance and credibility to your home based business. So you want to plan your home based business website strategy as early as possible.

You also want to put a great deal of thought into your home based business domain name. In many cases, its the same as your business if the name isnt already taken. This may not be the best way to choose a domain name, however. You want to make it easy for prospective customers to find you, so you may be better off choosing a domain name that describes your home based business product or service accurately. The reason for this is that people who are looking for lawn care services are going to do a search for lawn care services, so the domain name should relate as closely to that as possible. A hot trend these days is to put hyphens between each word of your domain name, but stay away from periods and commas.

When it comes to actually building your home based business website, unless youre extremely knowledgeable about web development and design, its a good idea to hire someone to do it for you. You can find many great web designers online who will build and host your website for a truly affordable fee. Many of these companies have templates you can use to design your home based business website yourself. Whichever method you choose, remember that you want your home based business website to look as professional as possible. And be sure to stay away from slow-loading graphics and flash. Web surfers arent known for their patience and will leave a website if the pages take too long to load.

How to go about sourcing content for your sites.

Well the most obvious but also the most time consuming way to do this is to write the content yourself, although it's not nearly as hard as it sounds. Do you realise that if you read 3 entire books on one subject you've pretty much set yourself up as an expert? By doing this chances are that you will know more than 99% of the population, of course there will be some people out there who are extremely well educated on your subject (or niche) who have spent years studying it, you can't hope to compete with them but don't let those few stop you getting started.

Some of the better article directories are:
* GoArticles - http://www.goarticles.com/
* Ezine Articles - http://www.ezinearticles.com/
* Article City - http://www.articlecity.com/
* Isnare - http://www.isnare.com/

The first and generally less expensive way (at least on a per article basis) is to join a Private Label Rights article membership site. There are quite a few of these and there is a great deal of variation amongst them. The general principle is that you pay a monthly membership fee, usually in the vicinity of $20-$50 a month and you'll get supplied with perhaps 50-200 articles a month.

Link building is the first marketing strategy every website should go for soon after submission of their site details to search engines. The popularity of a website is measured by search engines by way of calculating how many links pointing towards it. Some powerful links from popular website can help your website rise to the top of search engines without much waiting.

One-way link building from websites having page rank worth 3 or more can help you to get attention from search engines immediately. These links are worth paying for. These links serves two fold purposes. Apart from being just a link, it also serves as an advertisement of your website. Create attractive links, which are not only rich in keyword but also serves as a good advertisement. Reciprocal link building is another strategy adopted by many webmasters. But these links tends to be less powerful, since these links are placed in a separate links page which many not have a higher page rank.