Why SEO is important for your online success

Setting up a business can be quite easy but, getting customers is an entirely different game, especially when everything is online that your business will be competing with. SEO can improve a website’s overall visibility and search ability in order to ensure that customers will be able to reach you online, no matter how large or small your business is.

SEO is important for all types of businesses, individuals, professions is because it is the best stage to take you online, build as deep or as wide an online presence, get you to your audience, and most importantly it will keep building and strengthening your online success consistently as long as you needed, and that too in a very cost efficient manner.

But what Internet has really done in this Digital era is created tones of new online businesses and online new ways of doing businesses online. Traditional businesses are now converting towards online and new online businesses are being created each day.

  1. Get targeted visitors

Targeted traffic can make a big impact on your company.

The leads and views you attract by using SEO are going to be much more relevant than the visitors you attract using paid advertising.

  1. Improve sales conversion

When visitors stumble on your site after having a look up on Google, it will be somewhat easier to convert them into paying customers.

Why? Because they are already searching for a solution to their problems – a solution which your service or product can provide!

  1. Increase profit

Excessive conversion rate means maximum profit, plain and simple.

In addition to that, enhancing your website for SEO can help you reduce marketing expenses.

So much organic search traffic will be coming your way, you will no longer have to depend on paid advertising for your online success.

  1. Cost-effective results

If extending your marketing budget is on your mind, SEO is where you’re at.

SEO is considered one of the most efficient methods of generating quality traffic to your site.

It costs 64% less than traditional marketing – while bringing in 3 times the amount of leads.

  1. Long-term results

It is all about long-term results, that makes it even more cost-effective.

If you have optimized your website for SEO, you can keep seeing a steady flow of traffic coming your way for coming years.

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  1. Building brand awareness

Most importantly, one of the reasons why SEO is so effective in the long-term is the brand awareness that it creates.

When you land that top spot in search results, the way visitors see your brand changes, and your brand awareness increases.

  1. Staying ahead of your competitors

Do you know that 35% of all search traffic goes to the first search result?

The second one only gets 19% of traffic, and the numbers get even fluctuate from there.

If your competitor’s website ranks above than yours, you will have a difficult time staying ahead of them in terms of traffic and revenue.

Final thoughts on SEO

If you are not actively enhancing your website both on-page and off-page to work well with search engines, then you are limiting the performance potential of your website.

62% of marketers state that improving SEO and growing their organic presence is their top inbound marketing priority. Addition to this 57% of B2B marketers stated that SEO generates more leads than any other initiative. SEO should still very much be a priority for you website.

About the author

Akash Tonasalli is a Digital Marketer, Web Developer, SEO Analyst, Consultant and Trainer from Bengalore, Karnataka.