You've probably been hearing about how you need SEO for your child care business website. Search Engine Optimization, or SEO for short, is an expanding field of expertise. SEO refers to a wide range of tactics businesses use to make their websites get listed in search results from places like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
We search for everything on the internet these days-- whether it's a plumber, an auto repair shop, a party store, or child care. You want the parents in your community to easily find your program on the internet. SEO is how you can ensure parents easily find your business.
The goal of SEO isn't just to get listed, it's to get listed higher! You want to be as close to the top of the results page as possible. Ideally you want to be the first search result! The reasoning is that if you're at least among the first search results, more people are likely to click on your webpage. And more people clicking on your webpage means more business for you.
Ok, so SEO means get listed first. Simple, right? Not exactly. SEO is a little bit like a set of rules that aren't entirely clear and are always changing. If it helps you to understand, there are entire jobs and businesses dedicated to SEO, which really drives home the point that SEO is not easy to do as one person operating in isolation. Businesses invest a huge amount of money into hiring people or consultants to build their SEO. What this means for you as a small business owner is that unfortunately, the cards are stacked against you. Here are some basic tactics you can do to build SEO:
SEO isn't something that happens overnight. It takes some time and effort to build it, so don't despair if you don't see immediate results.
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