If you have made a website with the intension of making a profit and it is not, here is the go-to checklist, you need to review before you spend any more time or money.

1) Have you submitted your website to as many directories as possible?

Here is a list of directories you need to submit to Alexa, AltaVista, All The Web, AOL, Ask, Bing, DMOZ, ExactSeek, Excite, GigaBlast, Google, Hotbot, Kanoodle, Live, Lycos, LookSmart, MSN, National Directory, Netscape, SearchIt, WebCrawler, What-U-Seek and Yahoo.

Note: Putting a list together of links and information and manually submitting your site to these top search engines works far better than using an automated system. Notice that the terms of service for these sites often explain that it takes several weeks to be indexed by them and that re-submitting your site again and again in an attempt to get noticed could actually get you banned from many of these important directories.

2) Does everything on your site work and does it look good in different browsers?

Using a different computer other than the one you created the site in is a good way to check and see what your customers are seeing.

It is possible that what you see when you're looking at your own page online, is actually utilizing information stored on your computer which the rest of the world does not have access to.

This may sound like a simple boneheaded mistake however, it happens even to the best web-designers on occasion. It's easy to fix when you isolate the problem and this can be done by simply doing a quick quality check using a different computer and testing your site with different browsers.

Browser Shots online at http://browsershots.org/ offers a free service in which you can submit a site. They return screen shots of how your site displays in different browsers normally in a few minutes after submission. You can also take a look at your site from a public computer at the library or at a friend's house just to see that the links work and that everything is displaying properly.

3) If your site looks good, works well and has been added to the search engines following their terms of service, it could be that you are just not getting very many visitors to your site. To compile statistics and track visitors to your site Google offers a free tool you can use at http://www.google.com/analytics/. You can use this service by simply following the directions and adding a snippet of hidden code to your site all free.

If you see that you are not getting many visitors to your site by checking your Google Analytic reports, you can easily boost the numbers of visitors to your site by following the step-by-step methods found in this free traffic foundation building report at http://www.whereyouhavethesite.com.

Checking off these three items on your to-do list will put you miles above your competition and greatly increase your earning potential without you needing to spend more money or investing valuable hours of work to see results.

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