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Search-Proof Your Business Forever | Inc.com - Inc.

Last updated Friday, June 3, 2022 06:53 ET , Source: NewsService

When it comes to understanding the importance of search engine optimization (SEO) to a business the pendulum swings from "ignore it completely" to "understand and chase every Google update".

The truth, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle. Certainly a website that is structurally flawed, slow to load and fails to display properly on mobile devices is losing an important chunk of online business. Similarly, a website that is search engine optimized to the gills but then fails to understand what those who find it actually want to do once they are there, is winning only one half of the online marketing game.

How to reconcile these two approaches requires a nuanced understanding of what SEO does and what a business exists for. Stripped of all its esoteric mumbo-jumbo SEO is there to help a business find its audience at the moment that audience is actively looking for it. A business, in turn, exists to solve a problem.

From this perspective search itself, for all its many iterations through Google updates over the years, has always been focused on delivering the best relevant results in response to a searcher query. Search becomes the bridging point between a business and its audience. This, logically, means that search is marketing. But that's not all it is.

Human Behavior Determines Search Use

The biggest threat to your business losing that bridging connection between itself and its audience lies in factors that are far outside the remit of search itself and, by...



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