Why SEO is Important for Businesses

Having a website for your business is a great first step and one you should be proud of! However, have you ever gone to Google and typed in your industry to see how many results there are?

For example, I searched Google for “woman online coaches,” and there were about 1,210,000,000 results! The next question is, where does your business rank among those results? It’s impossible to reach the top of the results if you don’t have an SEO strategy for your website.

Search engines don’t automatically believe you’re creditable when you launch your website.

Therefore, SEO is vital for the success of businesses that want to rank higher than competitors.

When your site goes live, you can audit it to determine what score you receive. The better the score, the better chances you have to rank higher.

What does this score have to do with SEO?

SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization,” and it’s essential to increase your website’s visibility and search rankings. You can increase your score by optimizing your website for search results, tracking your SEO metrics, and continuing to improve it.

Audit your site so you know where to start and what needs improving before you begin optimizing your site. A website audit will reveal your current score, organic keywords, broken pages, errors, desktop and mobile speeds, etc. It gives you a starting point for improving your site, and you can use it as a guide for your strategy!

There are hundreds of SEO tools, some free and some not.

The most common tools used are:

[-] Bing Web Master – a free SEO tool that provides insights and data to improve your website

[-] Google Analytics – which most people say is a great tool to have in your SEO arsenal

[-] Google Trends – this tool provides impressive insights into how specific keywords rank over time and location

[-] Hubspot – can create a strategy for you to measure and track results.

[-] Ahrefs – is a company that advertises its platform as an all-in-one tool that has its own search engine to understand better how to help you with your SEO

[-] Semrush – which has over 50 tools and reports to help with all things marketing

[-] Spyfu – a few of their biggest features are backlink strategies and ranking history

[-] Ubersuggest – has many of the same features as the competitors above, and they are constantly adding more tools to their platform. It’s one of my personal favorites!

[-] Yoast – can be used within a WordPress site and is what I use for all websites I build to boost SEO on every page

So, what is your website’s SEO score currently?