Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization is geared toward improving your website’s position or “Rank” in particular search engines.  SEO for Small Business is valuable as it seeks to send more traffic to your website.  Often you will hear the SEO will send “Free” traffic to your site.  I find this misleading.  Search Engine Optimization is not something you do once, it is an ongoing process and therefore has cost associated with it.  However, this cost tends to be significantly less, per visitor to the site, than other options, like Pay Per Click.

Numerous studies have demonstrated that the vast majority of people only visit sites that are found on the first page of their favorite search engine. This means, if your site is not in the Top 10 websites when somebody searches for something related to your business, you are highly unlikely to capture the attention of that person.  And marketing is all about capturing attention.

SEO is not rocket science or some hidden secret.  It’s all about knowing what search engines are looking for and giving that to them, better than your competition.   There are a number of software solutions that could help you achieve this on your own or you could simply study SEO for your small business and not pay for this service.  However, the reason SEO has become such a strong industry in and of itself is the time-consuming nature and ever changing technologies.

 

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