Many people are currently unemployed through no fault of their own following Gordon Brown’s economic miracle. The fallout from hasn’t finished settling after the breaking of banks that collapsed like the World Trade Centre towers and so more people are being lost as businesses continue to struggle because they have a hard time getting credit to continue trading. The government reckons that despite the official total jobseekers claiming benefit at two point five million, there are in all eight million people at the moment ‘economically inactive’ for whatever reason. For those who have either never or not been out of work for a long time, many are discovering that the job market is a strange and changed place where skills and experience are not the assets that they expected they would be. In many cases, the jobs no longer pays enough, has little long term prospects or the industry is just not taking on new people.Others are looking at the situation as a possibility to make a new start, try something new, perhaps set up their own business.

For those people described above who may be looking for the opportunity to Work From Home, for those who would like to start a business but aren’t too sure what they can do or just want be their own boss, there is an option for them to start an Internet Business doing Online Jobs, even if they themselves have no technical ability. What they do need to have is a creative talent (and everyone does if they would but let it go), good skills in written English (if you can speak it, you should be able to write it and the ability can be learned or sharpened if they haven’t been used for some time). They also need a computer and an internet connection. So what is it?

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a method of helping businesses to get their websites to the top of the results pages of the likes of Google and Yahoo when users are searching for particular things on the internet. The way it works is that certain words or phrases (keywords) are agreed with the client company that describe their business, industry or products and which will feature strongly with browsers searching for them on their preferred search engines. Once agreed, the website is examined and website and some other alterations that, the next and longer term step of SEO is to set about ‘PR’ support for the website by creating articles, blogs and press releases for publication across the web which link back to the client’s site and which the search engines will ’crawl’ as they trawl the sites looking for new pages.

When the client keyword is displayed on the first results page, the number of articles being created in support can be reduced, as long as the search engine spiders can find a regular supply suggesting that the page being referred to is still live and relevant in which case it will competition or another reason, then some more will be endeavour and not many will have heard of it as a job, and since no technical knowledge is necessary, the option is open to anyone who fancies it have a go.