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Thursday, August 20, 2015

SEO Helps Small Businesses Beat the Competition

Springfield, Massachusetts is the home of many small businesses, and for the first time in history, small businesses in Springfield have the opportunity to compete on a level playing field with large corporations in the same industry. This is all thanks to the Internet.

The Internet allows small businesses to advertise their products 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and if necessary, to a specific local audience. For these reasons, search engine optimization or SEO is essential to the success of small businesses.

SEO increases the chance that a small business will be found when people search the Internet for a particular product or service. Small business owners must understand that if their website does not show up when a customer is using a search engine to find a product that they need—the enterprise is close to non-existent and loses potential customers online.

Unlike other forms of advertising, SEO is relatively inexpensive and requires little upkeep. It attracts people to a business’s website, which in turn increases the site's 
organic traffic, which in turn increases the site's ranking on search engines and draws more people to the site—a very promising and profitable cycle.

Business owners who choose to invest in SEO services and who take the time to learn how to use
HTML tags and structured data to market their content will see website traffic increase as search engines become more familiar with who they are and what they offer.

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