When you think of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), you might think it’s something only big companies with massive marketing budgets can afford. However, SEO is just as important - if not more so - for small businesses. SEO can be your secret weapon to getting found online without spending a fortune on ads.

Why SEO matters for small businesses: 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine.

People are actively searching for services and products like yours right now and SEO is how you make sure they find you instead of your competitors.

Without effective SEO, your website is invisible to search engines and won't come up in search results, even if it is the right answer to a query.

If you’re not optimising your website for search engines, you're missing out on one of the most cost-effective ways to grow your business.

Want to know if your website is optimised for search engines? Our SEO site audit costs just 2 700 kr (+moms) and will tell you exactly how well your website is set up to get search visitors and what you might be missing.

Here are some essential SEO tactics to get you started:

1. If you have a local target market, reach them with local SEO

Local SEO is all about making sure your business shows up in search results when people in your area are looking for products or services like yours.

2. Focus on keywords that matter *to your customers*

Keywords are the terms people type into search engines when looking for businesses like yours.
Keyword research is the foundation of any good SEO strategy.

The key is to find the right keywords—ones that are specific enough to attract targeted traffic but not so competitive that they’re impossible to rank for.

3. Update your website regularly with high-quality, engaging content

Search engines love fresh, valuable content. The more relevant and helpful your website content is, the better it will rank in search results.

4. Make sure your website is user-friendly

SEO isn’t just about keywords. The overall structure and experience of your website also play a huge role in how well it ranks.

5. Build links from other sites to your website

Backlinks - links from other websites to yours - are like votes of confidence in the eyes of search engines. The more high-quality backlinks you have, the higher your website will rank.

💡 Websites that show up on the first page of Google get 95% of the traffic. If you’re not ranking on page one, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to grow your small business.

We offer two SEO services: 1. an audit to find out the status of your website's search optimisation (2 700 kr +moms) and 2. a project to get your website optimised (3 600 kr +moms per 10 pages and 50 images).

If we can help you with your SEO, get in touch!

If you need a new website or to rebuild a current one and want some advice, get in touch with us. We also offer a comprehensive review of your website, including user experience (what it is like for a stranger to use your site), design and content, plus all the above SEO elements. Included are specific tips under each section and the information you need to see and work on your on-page SEO.

It costs just 1100 kr + moms - Contact us to book yours

Write in Danderyd is a full-service marketing agency that provides all the services the smallest of business needs to grow and thrive. What can we help you with?

Content marketing works to pull visitors into your website and to reach them there, on social media and by email. It is the best thing for building up awareness of your business and for taking potential clients through their buyer journey to the stage when the book with or buy from you.

In practice, this means putting new or updated material on your website, often in the form of blog posts and then spreading the news that the new material is there via the channels. For a small business, it can be the main source of new business.

We can help you work out what content to put up, we can produce it for you or use content you have created and help you get it out to your potential and current clients.

Social media marketing covers everything from creating text and graphic posts, keyword research and posting to engagement and follower-building activities.  For the smallest businesses, posting when you have very few followers isn't where the focus should be.

We can produce and publish your content and grow the number of people looking at it. We can do it as a project or as a regular activity, in as little as two hours a month.

People make decisions based on their first impression of a company, a person or a product so good design is crucial for business success. Small businesses need everything from a logo to social media images and they need them from the very beginning.

We work with you to create everything from a logo - including versions of your logo for every use, printing stationery and the right sizes and formats for social media sites (each, of course, being different!) - to newsletter design, brochure design, websites, signs, event equipment and everything inbetween.

Web design plays a vital role in how your brand is perceived and how your website works can allow or stop people form booking or buying your products and services.

Another important factor is how well the website works for you. Can you easily update it, add what you need to be visible and change the content without it taking forever? Does it look good when you make changes?

We work with you to find the best system for you and your business and then get it setup and running. We support websites made in all systems and can help you with anything.

If your website isn’t optimised for search engines, they literally can’t see it and won’t show it to your target market. SEO explains what you site is about and who the targeted audience is based on the information the site provides.

We provide SEO services designed especially for the smallest of businesses - so you don't pay for something you don't need (yet...!):

WEBSITE REVIEW: A comprehensive review of your website, including user experience (what it is like for a stranger to use your site), design and content, plus all the above SEO elements. Included are specific tips under each section and the information you need to see and work on your on-page SEO.

ON-PAGE SEO WORK: Working through each page on your website, we create and put in keywords, titles and descriptions for each one. We'll look at your images and add optimised descriptions for them too. As many or as little hours as you want and need

LOCAL SEO: If your target market is right in your neighbourhood, there are specific cost-effective SEO tactics we can use to get you in front of as many locals as possible.

OFF-PAGE SEO: Social media marketing and blog outreach are two affordable off-page SEO tactics that we can help you with.

Potential customers/clients need to ‘meet’ you a good few times before they are likely to buy your products/services. Email is one of the cheapest, most effective and traceable approaches to get them understanding why they need to buy from you.

We can get you set up and ready to reach out to your audience and use our experience and your past marketing to establish what your audience likes to receive by email.  We can run campaigns for you or help you work out how to do it yourself.

There are occasions where getting coverage in the media gets your message out to the audience you want and need. We work with local, national, and international journalists and target press for both the public and specific, targeted audiences.

PR is perfect for book and research report launches, for example.

Under normal circumstances, we help organise and run events around the world. Right now, we help publicise and host events across the internet!

We can help with a whole event and we can help with just one element – signs and posters, social media promotion, online course systems and anything else.

From billboards and posters to pay-per-click online advertising, we can help you with your paid marketing campaigns. We will also advise you to stay away from channels and advertising tactics that don't work for the smallest of businesses - we'll help you spend your budget in the most effective way.

Most business owners know, to an extent, how potential clients turn into paying ones (and the same for customers in/on a shop). What is harder is working out the point where potential clients/customers drop out of their buying process - where are you losing potential business?

We look for the entire journey the buyer takes and spot the gaps, supporting you with ideas, content and tactics to plug them and build up your sales. We can advise on marketing and sales automation too - getting technology to move potential clients  through their journey without needing your personal attention. We can also work with you on specific sales campaigns, from filling the sales funnel at the top with new leads to converting prospects into buyers at the final hurdle. All with your small business in mind.

Write in Danderyd’s marketing services are specifically designed to build and grow the smallest of businesses. That means the business you run from home, the consulting firm you have, the local business you’ve set up and any business that has less than 10 employees. Or no employees.

We pick and choose the best marketing tactics that work for the smallest of businesses.

We don’t recommend or use tactics that take a lot of time, energy and budget to action.

We don’t use tactics that need you to have 10,000+ followers on social media or an email list with 10,000+ addresses on it. If you have 10 email addresses, that is where we will start.

Learn to market your business yourself
Sometimes you need to market your business yourself and we support that too. We run courses and workshops (mostly online at the moment but IRL too!).

Check out our selection and let us know if you’d like to learn about something we haven’t got a course for: My Own Marketing Coach.
 
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Every business is different. Get in touch with us to discuss yours.

We realise this isn't the most exciting of marketing topics but it is really important, so please do read it...

Google thinks that all websites should have an SSL certificate.

If you have not heard about SSL till now, then here's what SSL actually means - Secure Sockets Layer. It is an encoding system in which all the data that gets transferred between your website and the server is encrypted in a language which is unreadable by third parties. It remains secure from hacking.

An SSL certificate helps your website in several ways:

1. It improves your ranking on the search engine
Search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo generally display those websites on their top results page which come with SSL certification. Being a small business owner, it is imperative for you to get the customer's attention online. To improve your ranking and visibility online, you should go for SSL certification. Your ranking for the SEO keywords that you are targeting also improves rapidly if you have an SSL certificate.

2. You gain the customer's trust
Almost 50 percent of online shoppers have said that they trust an e-commerce website more which has an SSL certificate and prefer to shop from such websites only. Imagine the number of customers you are losing out on just because your website does not have SSL certification! You can attract so many more customers if you opt for one.

3. The safety of your data is ensured
Sensitive data like credit card numbers, usernames and passwords are protected by SSL encryption. All the transactions that take place through your website are hundred percent safe and secure. The danger of hacking drops right off and you can carry on your business without worrying about data leaks.

4. You get extra authentication
The SSL certificate that you get from a trusted provider makes your confidential information unreadable not only to third parties using other servers but also to those devices which are on the same server as yours. This additional authentication is provided by the public key infrastructure or PKI.

5. You can avoid from being declared dangerous by Google
Google is ensuring that all websites that show up on its search engine have an SSL certification indicated by the https:// in their website addresses. This is being done with the help of the red font color which is appearing on the link of non-secure websites in the form of http://. This red color warns the visitors to your website that it is not secure enough for sharing sensitive data. This can ruin your credibility online. SSL certification is a necessity for e-commerce websites specifically because of the transactions that are carried out.

 The general advice is if you want your small business to perform well on online , you need to get an SSL certification as soon as possible.

We advise ALL our clients to get SSL certificates as soon as possible.

Contact us if you need help. In many cases, they are free.

You've got a great website. Or great enough. If you leave it sitting on the web, will people find it?

There are more than 1 billion websites on the net and they are all fighting for attention. Does your target market know that your site is there?

Don't worry, there is actually plenty you can do to get your site out there and bring in visitors who search for your kind of products or services. It takes a bit of effort and a bit of time but generally costs nothing (unless you pay someone else to do it) and it works.

In our next two-hour training session on Wednesday 18th October, we'll work through techniques you can use to get the search engines sending you lots of lovely visitors and the right type of visitors at that. We'll look at the content on your website and at the technical stuff, to help you get started. The session is from 12.30-2.30 and costs 350kr.

Find out more here: http://www.writeindanderyd.com/getting-more-people-looking-at-your-website-seo.html

Having spent the last month running training sessions with you lovely lot, we've planned a whole lot more! You told us that you'd like a few hours working with us on your website, on email marketing, on building great collaborations and on blogging.  Someone also asked us for a session on running your own life but that is definitely 'outside our area of expertise' :)

For the topics that we do know about, we've just put together a schedule for the rest of the spring (yes, we decided that spring has actually started). Come and join us at our office in Danderyd if you would like to know lots about the following topics:

• Blogging for business (the how, why, where etc.)

Wed 10th May - 12:30-2:30pm (4 spaces), Wed 10th May - 8pm-10pm (5 spaces), Thur 18th May - 12:30-2:30pm (5 spaces), Thur 18th May - 8pm-10pm (5 spaces)

• The best method of marketing a small business - email

Thur 20th April - 12:30-2:30pm (5 spaces), Thur 20th April - 8-10pm (3 spaces), Thur 27th April - 8-10pm (4 spaces)

• Website clinic - bring your website and questions

Wed 26th April - 8-10pm (4 spaces), Thur 27th April - 12:30-2:30pm (3 spaces), Wed 3rd May - 12:30-2:30pm (4 spaces), Tue 23rd May - 12:30-2:30pm (4 spaces), Tue 23rd May - 8-10pm (4 spaces), Thur 8th June - 12:30-2:30pm (4 spaces), Thur 8th June - 8-10pm (4 spaces)

• Get more people looking at your site (doing Search Engine Optimisation)

Thur 4th May - 12:30-2:30pm (3 spaces), Thur 4th May - 8pm-10pm (2 spaces), Wed 17th May - 12:30-2:30pm (5 spaces), Wed 17th May - 8pm-10pm (5 spaces)

• Using content marketing on social media to get clients

Wed 19th April - 12:30-2:30pm (5 spaces), Wed 19th April - 8pm-10pm (3 spaces)

• Don't do it alone - develop successful collaborations

Wed 26th April - 12:30-2:30pm (5 spaces)

All the sessions are two hours long and cost 250kr in advance (preferably by SWISH).
For more information, click here or get in touch with us. If you want to join us but can't make the dates listed, let us know and we'll see what we can do.

Did you see what we added to the title of this blog post to make it come up when someone searches online for local businesses? Yes, we wrote the word 'Danderyd'. We do that a lot. It is also in our name (if you hadn't already noticed that).

If you want to be found online as a local business, create local content.

You have two main choices here:
1. Writing about what you do in the context of your location and/or
2. Your opinion of things going on in your local area.

Whichever you choose, be sure to mention the location a couple of times at least, to let the search engines know where you are. Don't overdo it though, more than 5 could be too many and will make your post hard to read by your human readers.

Google updates its way of searching the web so often that it is almost impossible to keep up with it.

One key point  we picked up recently is that the search engine needs to see at that at least 60% of the content on your website is unique - you write it yourself and it isn't repeated anywhere else on the web. This is harder to do than you might imagine for businesses that sell products with standard descriptions for example. A word from the wise (wiser?!) - don't be tempted to repost blog content or even page content to your own site without writing about it in your own words and checking you haven't fallen under the 60% boundary.

Sites that are known as 'content farms' - those that collect text and images from all over the web and feature them, uch as news portals, are bad news as far as Google is concerned. If a content farm is pulling your information, Google will penalise you for it.