As a small business owner, you know it’s important to make sure your web site can be found by potential customers but you don’t have hours of spare time to figure out “SEO” and how to “optimize” your site. You also can’t afford to hire a high price SEO expert. What can you do?

Register your small business with local search enginesIn this article, Google’s Matt Cutts gives 5 basic tips that will help make sure your site gets found by potential customers. Here is the list in brief:

  1. Spotlight your search term on the page.
  2. Fill in your “tags”. (Bill’s note, if you  do nothing else, make sure you have unique, meaningful title tags on each page).
  3. Get other sites to “link” back to you.
  4. Create a blog and post often
  5. Register for free tools

Click through to read the rest of this article. Start with these small, practical tips, and make sure your potential customers can find you when they are ready to buy.


If you sell mostly to your local area, you should also check out the Local Search Engine Profile

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Bill Brelsford Small Business Marketing Consultant