Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Tips For Small Business SEO

By Mellisa Allen


Search Engine Optimization For Small Business

Small enterprise SEO is more significant than most business owners realize. It use to be that the yellow pages, telephone

book, billboards and other normal strategies were enough to advertise hereabouts. In the last couple years we have

seen great changes thanks to the web. It is now faster to go looking for what you are looking for online. Studies

show that even for local products and services folk are now researching them online first then buying

offline. So if you are not visable online then you are missing alot of potential customers.

Local Search SEO

Since google started their local search results things have dramatically modified. Now the small enterprise owner can

rank locally online increasingly simple as the competiton is significantly lower. Before local search results which you had to

compete nationally or internationally. Now you can compete by town, zip code and or region/county.

Am I Able To Do Local SEO Myself?

Yes your are able to. Depending on how competitive your niche is generally getting yourself mentioned on local directories such

as Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local, Hotfrog, Yelp, Best Of The Web and other smaller local directories you

will be before your competiton.

Onsite SEO

One more thing to do yourself is onsite SEO. You can look up the basics on Google and find out enough to get your

site ranked. Most smaller companies have awfully little to no SEO.

S.E.O Services

If you would like to use an S.E.O service then there's a local way to approach it. You don't have to go for everything

all at the same time. Begin by onsite SEO and the directories I mentioned above and see if which will get you ranked. Then

if you want to ask them about some linkbuilding on a little scale. Remember you only have to do it a little better than your competition.






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