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What Can I Do to Get Better Search Results for My Website

New customers are out there looking for what you have to offer. But which site will they find first? Yours our your competitors? Customers use search engines such as Google or Yahoo to find what they are looking for so a high search engine ranking is vital to give your site a jump on the competition. That's what puts you in an ideal position to increase traffic and sales and that’s why CF Professional Services Search Engine Visibility tool is essential.

Whether you are new to internet commerce or an established pro looking to grow, CF Professional Services' Search Engine Visibility tool can increase your site’s traffic and sales. By going step by step through actual examples of search engine optimization, learn powerful techniques, best practices and ranking methods.  Search Engine Visibility even submits your site to hundreds of search engines and online directories automatically.

But Search Engine Visibility doesn’t only help drive new traffic and increase sales, it also helps you monitor, benchmark and adjust your site’s key search engine data. You’ll know at a glance which search terms produce strong results and learn to make them even stronger.  You can even compare your site to your competitors and pinpoint the top sources of traffic.

So are you ready? Then get discovered!  Improve your search engine’s rankings and maximize your traffic and sales with CF Professional Services Search Engine Visibility today.

Watch this video to learn how to increase traffic to your website!

Help Yourself Get Through the Recession

With the economy today and the fears of five dollar gasoline (and up), it's normal to have anxiety over how bills will get paid.  If you have children heading to college, a mortgage, and credit card debt, you can get overwhelmed fast.  Even with getting a second or third job, it can be difficult to make ends meet.  In fact, the uncertain economic future still causes me to rethink my financial decisions.  So back in 2005, I decided to do something about it.  I started my own business.

Starting your own business is not as easy as it sounds.  Just like anything else, to be successful, you must work at it. In my case, I already had a full time job, a wife and two teenaged children.  Time was a scarce commodity.  I wasn't about to risk a good career, marriage and quality time with my family just to earn a few extra dollars a month.  But you have to be realistic if you decide to start your own business because in most cases, small business fail within a few years.

So, I came up with some requirements.  I needed something that met the following: (this is not an all-inclusive list)

1. Low startup cost.  I wasn't in a position to invest a large sum of money and assumed that you get what you pay for, so zero startup costs wasn't likely to get me where I wanted. 
2. Automatic / electronic payments.  I did not want to wait for checks to come in the mail and risk getting them lost or stolen. 
3. Something I could do from nearly anywhere, preferably from home.  I wanted a way to do business from home to avoid lost time with the family.  I also wanted the flexibility to work while traveling.
4. No inventory. I had no interest in stocking piles of products.  
5. Mechnism for generating recurring income. 
6. Support and training.  I knew that if others had gotten into a small business, there should be a way to tap into that support.  
7. Option to get my money back if I did not like what I was doing.
8. Someone to handle customer support.  With limited time, I knew I would not be able to support my customers all by myself.  If there was a 24 hour support number for customers to call, that would make it easier for everyone.
9. Something I enjoyed doing.  I wasn't about to put valuable time and energy into something I hated. 

So I looked online and in my local community for ideas and suggestions.  Ebay was an option but I didn't really want to store things and constantly watch what was selling.  While there are pleny of people that are successful and discovered ways to be profitable, it really didn't meet all of my requirements.  Most of the other items I read about seemed like a scam or required a large investment.  Then about January of 2005, I came across something that seemed to fit perfectly.  A reseller business.

Of course, there are tons of reseller businesses out there and many of them allow you to deal with electronic goods or drop-shipping where you don't have to maintain an inventory.  But what caught my attention was that no matter what I found or where I went looking, they all had one thing in common.  A website.  It seems that for any person or business wanting to communicate with others, a website was the key to making it happen.  And with the rise in popularity of smartphones, it seemed inevitable for sites to move to a mobile format.  It seemed like there was very little reason for any business NOT to have a website.  Just about the entire planet was a potential customer.

So for a small investment, I started this business and like any other, there are issues that have to be addressed.  It's not a "build it and they will come" situation.  It requires hard work.  My first two years were not profitable but as time went on and I learned more about how the business works, I'm able to supplement my income quite nicely.  Am I going to quit my day job?  Not anytime soon.  But now I have options and as a bonus, I can leave this business to my children.

If you are looking for a solid internet business that can generate good revenues and great residual income, then I suggest you take a few minutes to learn more about being an internet reseller.  It's not for everyone but it could be just right for you. 

Finally, a website builder that's easy to use

Think you don’t have the time or know-how to build your own website?  Think again.  Whether you are creating a personal site or an online business, CF Professional Services makes it easy and affordable to build your own site.  Our Website Tonight plans include free email using your personal domain, free hosting, no setup fees and 24/7 support.

Here’s how it works:

First, pick one of the professionally designed templates that suit your style, personality or business.  Choose from over 3,000 design and color combinations in our template library.. To get your site online even faster, we have more than 120 pre-built templates five page websites complete with content, photos and navigation.  For each web page, choose from 14 distinct page layouts that put your site in the best light.  You can even have a different layout on each page.  See an example.

Second, fine tune the site to make it uniquely yours.  Add two levels of navigation and change the color scheme or the color of any site element to create that perfect look.  Choose from 8,700+ professional quality images or upload your own.  Organize and format your content with bullets, numbering and hyperlinks.  You can even add or edit your own HTML.  Plus, you can add videos, music, predesigned flash animations, RSS feeds, widgets and much more.

Finally, when your website looks and works exactly the way you want, it’s time to preview your site.  One click makes sure everything is working.  Then, with just one more click, publish your site.  You’re live on the web.

How Do Your Customers Know if Your Business is Trustworthy?

When visitors come to your site, how will they know if their information is safe? Let your customers know their private information is secure with an SSL certificate.  Growing concerns about fake sites, viruses and identity theft have made customers reluctant to click links on Web sites they don't know. In fact, 73% of consumers want more assurance that their information is secure.* As a result, small businesses struggle to attract prospects to their sites and suffer from abandoned transactions once they get there.

If you collect any information on your Web site or if your customers create an account to sign-in, you need to protect their personal information in transmission across the Internet with encryption. CF Professional Services SSL solutions both secure your online transactions and help assure your customers that they are safe when they shop, share, or click on your site.

Pay up to 90% LESS than our competitors using the same technology.

In fact, there is NO TECHNICAL DIFFERENCE between our certificates and any other major Certification Authority. We offer 99.9% browser recognition and up to 256-bit encryption.

* Javelin Strategy and Research, March 2009