This was the source of an informal list of "16 mistakes start-ups make", since expanded to 17.

The internet is an agile platform for doing business. Indeed it is arguably the only platform that nearly anyone with little knowledge and effort can even make money without investing a shilling in their online venture.

In the report "The Rebirth" by John Reese, a veteran internet entrepreneur, he reminisces of how he built a top 500 most visited website in the world.

The superiority of classical taxonomies like the Dewey Decimal is being rivaled by "Tagging". The Dewey Decimal groups the worlds' information in to ten major categories. If you have used a library you may be aware of numbers used on the spine of books.

Any good business plan starts with an accurate identification of its market.

For the longest time, CMSs have not been SE friendly. This means, if you were to use a CMS and your competitor used the plain old HTML pages, they would out-rank you in SEs every time.

High rankings in natural listing of Search Engines a (SE) is one of the most coveted positions for the popular keywords.

Have you ever wondered how Search Engines (SE) know which pages to give you when you do a search?

A web CMS is a server-side software used to manage, control and effectively develop your website.

In trying to create a much easier back end solution, CMS's knowingly or unknowingly stumbled on probably the panacea to "all the free traffic you can get" with SEs

Managing an internet business website basically consist of three main function.

Among the main challenges of selling online is the fact that there is no face to face interaction.

There is a group of internet businesses tapping into the PPC market, only this time they are earning money instead of spending it.

Just like the offline world, one should never confuse marketing for sales. Online, the disparity between the two is quickly brought to notice when stats in the log-file show numerous visits with no sales made.

You could structure your website with the best of siloing CMS (Content Management System) and still not get the high SE Ranking Position anticipated.

There has been a persistent squabble over whether one should use short or long articles online.

Unlike email where the internet business has to "push" content by sending emails to the subscribers, RSS is a "pull" technology.

Page Rank (PR) is a Google generated indicator, a number between 1 and 10, which shows how popular a webpage is; with 10 as extremely popular.

The differences in media may introduce challenges in the process of selling from a website.

"Sell the sizzle not the steak" is an adage common among sales people and marketers.

Imagine two shops that receives 100 customer each every day. Of these hundred customers 40 always find and buy what they need in each of these two shop.

The term Web 2.0 has often been credited to O'Reilly, a media company that publishes both books and websites on different subjects of computer technology.