Internet & Online Marketing

13 Good Reasons Why Your Small Business Needs a Website Serious to Stay in Business – Have a Professional Website! “If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business.” — Bill Gates Do you want to be taken seriously as a small business owner? Nothing says professional small business more, than having a professionally designed responsive website for your company. A website is key to small business success for the reasons summarized below. In this digital age it should be one of the first items your small business acquires, even before you open for business. According to Deloitte,Read More →

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) versus Search Engine Marketing (SEM) No Consensus on if SEM includes SEO Research by Small Business Success (SBS) indicates that there isn’t any consensus that Search Engine Marketing (SEM) includes Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There is no point in debating this since hundreds of articles/blog posts cannot agree that SEO is part of SEM. To make it easy for small business owners, when on the SBS website, SEM means paid and SEO means organic or “free”. Consequently, SEM does not include SEO. If you are really interested read “Does SEM = SEO + CPC Still Add Up?” and “SEM vs. SEORead More →

What is SEO?  The Difference Between On- and Off-page SEO? What is SEO and How does it help Small Businesses? SEO is an acronym that stands for Search Engine Optimization. Search Engine Optimization is a part of your small business’s digital marketing strategy to be successful online. SEO focuses on improving your website’s ranking within the search results pages (SERPS). By increasing your ranking (position) in the search engines the chance of driving more quantity and quality visitors/traffic to your website improves. To achieve this, search engine optimization involves a set of tactics and techniques that optimize your website and make it easy for searchRead More →

“A website without SEO is like a car with no gas.” – Paul Cookson When did SEO Begin and Is SEO Relevant to Small Businesses in 2020? When did SEO Begin and Who Invented SEO? It is important to look at the history of search engines to understand when did SEO begin. In 1990 the first search engine (Archie) was invented by McGillan University student Alan Emtage. Thereafter, Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Stanford University developed the search engine Backrub in 1997. Backrub was the first search engine that analyzed and ranked websites based on content relevancy, how many times a searchRead More →

Common Internet And Web Terms Defined For Small Businesses The small business glossary includes many common internet and web terms that small business owners may come across. Learn more about the Internet and Web by visiting our blogposts “What Small Business Owners Need to Know About the Internet?” – click here and “Simplified Explanation of How the Internet Works – click here. These blog posts are also use the common internet and web terms defined below. Some of the most important Internet related terms are: Domain Name: A domain name is a name that you select to identify your website. Each domain name is uniqueRead More →

Simplified Explanation of How the Internet Works Introduction to How the Internet works As a small business owner have you ever wondered how the Internet works? You go online to read your emails, buy some stuff, do research, and much more. By knowing how the Internet works you will gain new perspectives and find ways to further capitalize on the power of the Internet/Web to further improve and grow your small business. Fortunately, how the Internet Works conceptually is incredibly simple. The Internet is a global network of millions of computers that that basically moves data from one computer to another. On the other hand,Read More →

What Small Business Owners Need To Know About The Internet? The Internet and Small Businesses As a small business owner, have you ever wondered about the Internet and its value for your business? It is important to realize that in 2020, after more than 20 years of online access, the world is still at the beginning of the Internet revolution. The pace of digital change and how it impacts your small business will continue to accelerate as Internet technology advances and consumers and competitors alike, move online. Events such as the current Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) fuels this “Internet revolution” as business scrambles to accommodate theRead More →