Optimizing your online business for search engine performance on the Internet is a cost-effective, efficient way of generating natural, qualified sales leads on an ongoing basis. No other form of marketing allows you to bring in constant, responsive prospects for such little outlay.

What's more, on the Internet there are simple ways you can fine-tune your website to make your web pages more attractive to search engines. The first thing you have to do is to make sure that each page has its own unique title bar. The title bar is right at the top above the URL.

The second thing to consider when attempting to optimize your business for Internet search engines is the requirements for keywords. While there is no magic number or secret formula to keyword density, it is important that your website contains keywords somewhere in the body and header text, and that it also contains semantically related terms to appeal to modern search engine algorithms.

Generally, the best approach is to make your website content informative and relevant to the keywords you are attempting to target, trying to appear as natural as possible in order to benefit from the optimum ranking. It's also important to ensure so far as is possible that you include your main keyword in the title tags as this will also play a role in how Internet search engines interpret and index your website.

Thirdly, but potentially most important, is the link building process. Link building can be conducted in a number of different forms, and ideally it should be a natural process with other websites linking to you in recommendation of your content, although more often than not there is at least some degree of manipulation involved.

One of the main ways of building links is through article marketing, in which informative content is submitted to article directories online with links published back to the author's website. These links are often to internal pages to boost overall search engine rankings and the link text (also known as 'anchor text') should read your keyword or a variation thereof. Ultimately by carrying on this process and continuing to build your article numbers you should build up a number of back links to your website which should promote your site in the listings under your key search terms, allowing more search engine users to stumble upon your Internet business.

Finally do not forget your web address. It should also relate to the business you are in because search engines are allocating points to websites that contain the keyword that people are searching for.

Promoting your Internet business through the search engines might sound a little confusing and tricky to start with, but underlying it all are some pretty basic principles that you can adhere to. This will help to create serious momentum behind your Internet business and to drive continual sales leads over the longer term. By combining the off-page link building methods and the on-page fine tuning techniques demonstrated above, you can achieve some degree of success in your business online, and drive cost-effective, targeted sales leads on a daily basis without too much ongoing work or expense.