An online business cannot be created without a hosting company. The hosting company charges the business a monthly or yearly fee to allow the world to "see" their products and services. In a recent study, 72% of Americans said that they would like to start their own online business.

Complete traffic analysis is an important component to your website. You should be able to find out what keywords sent visitors to your site, what search engines referred visitors, what websites sent them there, how many new visitors you received in a given day or month and where they are from.

Each page of your website needs to be optimized for search engines. This means that it uses the words customers will input in their search engine to point them to your site. This process can be long and borin gand should be offered by your hosting company.