{"id":401970,"date":"2020-10-15T08:49:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/needseo.com\/?p=401970"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:15:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:15:57","slug":"business-off-track-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needseo.com\/business-off-track-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Off Track?  What To Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various industries are already facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/myvalleynews.com\/forecast-finds-economic-downturn-in-receding-recovery-grinding-forward\/\">decrease in businesses<\/a> because of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Your business is not alone in its struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t lose hope yet, SEO will come to your rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons to Invest in SEO During the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/p>\n<p>#1 Search is easy to measure<\/p>\n<p>SEO allows you to stay visible. During a pandemic, the minds of people are preoccupied with survival. If your business provides some of the things necessary for survival like food, medication and like we have found out from this pandemic, toilet paper, you may already be on top of the mind for many people, but SEO will still help you get that edge over other competitors. Even for the businesses that may not be involved in essential products, you can still use SEO to maintain top of the mind awareness which will become an asset once the storm blows over.<\/p>\n<p>#2 People are increasingly searching for products online<\/p>\n<p>Remember, people are online more, so it may be time to focus more on running the business online and what better way to get attention than to put energy into SEO strategies.<\/p>\n<p>#3 People still need your service and products<\/p>\n<p>The competition is likely to take their foot off the pedal. The fact that people are locked up in their homes may make the competition believe that they have no reason to push their SEO strategies. Google, however, does not stop working because of a pandemic. Many people are still searching and Google is ranking. It\u2019s the best time to get a better <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/search?for=serp&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen\">ranking<\/a> since the competition to be noticed is reduced. In some niches, you might find you are the only one still active.<\/p>\n<p>#4<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_402141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402141\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-402141\" src=\"https:\/\/needseo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/business-downturn.jpg\" alt=\"Business Downturn\" width=\"229\" height=\"220\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-402141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Businbess Off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SEO sets your business up for success after the pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Things will get back to normal eventually, but we just don\u2019t know when.<br \/>\nIt might take some time to recover from the loss, but search engine marketing will continue to make lives easier.<br \/>\nImplementing efficient <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/357669\">SEO marketing<\/a> programs during this downtime will be helpful for when the market is normal again. You can create an SEO campaign that will yield results for many years to come. Those results could help your business recover from the possible losses from the economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>Author: Tejpal Singh, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various industries are already facing a decrease in businesses because of the coronavirus. Your business is not alone in its struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic. Don\u2019t lose hope yet, SEO will come to your rescue. 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