If you have found yourself negatively affected by the economy and are planning an Internet business start up to help you get by you have to know how long it will take to start making some money.

Naturally, the information depends on a lot of things, but probably the most important - if your idea is good for the internet – is how long it will take for business to find you.

Unless you have cash to invest, that can be a while.

In a search query you should be on the organic left hand side of the page or on the right side among the Pay per Click Ads. Unless you have a real niche keyword with only a few competitors it will take probably several months to work your way up to the first few pages and your real target is page one. So, if you can't wait, you’re going to need to buy your traffic.

The best start – if you haven't already done so – to to test outjust how competitive it's going to be to get some visibility. Let's start with the natural search in Google – because it's the biggest engine and it can drive the most volume to your site.

Once you've entered your keyword, look at the blue bar that runs just under the logo. You'll see Results 1-10 of about….. So, what's the number? Chances are it might look a little insane – like two hundred million.

If that's the case search again but wrap your keyword or keyword phrase in quotation marks. It will narrow your search down to a phrase match. And people who know enough to use a phrase match will get a more accurate result. Now, the number should be smaller. If it's under 300,000 you're looking at a term where you should be able to compete (although it might not seem that way) and if it's still over a million, you'll have your challenges.

Here are some other things you can start with to check out the relative strength of your competition

Upload the Google toolbar on your browser to see the page rank of competitive sites. Download the Alexa tool bar to give you their site traffic in absolute numbers. Also, since the number of links going to a site have a major effect on where they'll show up on a search, go to http://www.yahoo.com and enter link:http://www.sitename.com (sitename being the name of the site you want to look at). That will show the the pages that are linked to the page you select.

Your work has just begun. But, it's a start.

Louise Collins is the writer of START UP MISTAKES and personally operates several online retail stores . START UP MISTAKES, is a summary of the mistakes she made in her first year of business and what they cost. When she realized that the total out of pocket cost of several wrong decisions had, in fact, lightened her wallet by over Twenty thousand dollars, Louise decided that this was valuable information for new entrepreneurs starting small business

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