The importance of SEO for small businesses

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SEO is still very important for your business!

Most small companies think SEO is just too difficult for them, and that it won’t make much difference to their business, but they’re wrong.  If your customers cannot find you, how will you be noticed in an ever crowded market place.  It doesn’t matter what industry you operate in, there’s always competition, and the competition will figure out how to use the web properly if you don’t.

The great thing about SEO is that there are an amazing number of tools that are free out there, and it doesn’t take a lot of knowledge to learn how to use them.

So what’s stopping you.  Isn’t it time to get noticed.

Here are just five great SEO tools that you can use to improve your visibility on the web:

1) Wordstream, free keyword search tool. This amazing search tool offers thousands of keyword ideas from a huge database of more than a trillion unique searches. It outperforms some of the paid alternatives in the market.

http://www.wordstream.com/free-keyword-tools

2) Copyscape, this is a free plagiarism checker, you can make sure that your site is clean and you are not receiving second hand content

http://www.copyscape.com/

3) Broken link report, Xenu’s Link Sleuth is spidering software that checks Web sites for broken links.  The site performs verification on normal links, images, frames, backgrounds, and local image maps.

http://download.cnet.com/Xenu-s-Link-Sleuth/3000-10248_4-10020826.html

4) Title and description optimisation tool,  this SEO optimization tool helps to optimize title tags and meta description

http://seobin.org/

5) Google snippet preview, the snippet that appears in Google Search is usually taken from these meta tags. The Google Snippet Preview tool helps visualize and optimize what is displayed to searchers.

http://www.snippetoptimizer.net/

There are many more out there, these are just a few.