Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Internet users rely on search to have their questions answered, to find companies, and to learn more about products and services. If your focus is local, potential customers still use search engines to look for reviews and directions.
Even if a customer is already familiar with your company name, they are likely to type that into a search engine rather than trying to remember your website address. That is why it is important l that you make sure searchers can find your site when they’re looking for you.
If you provide valuable information and make it easy for search engines to find and organize it, they will reward you with higher rankings. This increased exposure equals more visitors to your website and its subpages.
As with most marketing, you want to get your content in front of as many eyes as possible. Your audience wants what you have, and SEO will help them find you.
Since search engines return results to users who are actively searching for a particular term or phrase, getting to the top of that list means you’re providing information to the people who want it most, when they want it.
Unlike advertising, you aren’t trying to push information in front of consumers who might not be interested at the time. Instead, that information will be shown to an active audience, and you don’t have to pay to get your message to them.
Overall, SEO is one of the most effective ways to build and sustain your online presence. Rather than “fixing” your website to have SEO capabilities after you’ve created content, we keep it top-of-mind at the start. By following best practices at the beginning, you’ll create interesting, useful content that potential customers want and sometimes even need to read. Then, the search engines will be happy to put you in front of a larger audience.