A small business owner’s work is never done, is it? That goes triple for your online marketing. Since the interwebs is always growing and changing, your online marketing should too. Every business today, even for those who don’t conduct business online, needs to have strong online visibility. Having this increases accessibility to your business and supports brand awareness, audience building, and additional marketing efforts.

Online visibility can be defined as the positioning or ranking of your website in organic search results. Or, in other words, how easy it is for consumers to find your business and your products or services online. Without strong online visibility, your business could be losing out on a ton of potential revenue. The following are 6 ways your business can improve online reach and visibility:

1. Collecting leads.

Before starting building things on the web or your website start collecting leads. This will make your visibility unique. You can do this by Aweber. This is a tool which builds your email list. You can manage your e-marketing by yourself without any charges or payments charges. You have a variety of options there with attractive templates and HTML widgets.

2. Claim your Google My Business.

If you have a physical business location, first you need to claim your Google My Business listing. This will make it easier for customers in the area to find you when they search. For instance, if a customer searches for “Italian restaurants near me,” on Google, the search engine will provide Google My Business listings for local Italian restaurants. By claiming your business listing and making sure your contact and location information are correct, you are making it easier for customers to find you on search engines.

3. Blog.

Your blog is the most essential marketing tool for a small business and the hub of your inbound marketing strategy. Your blog is where you can showcase your expertise and provide value to your target audience. The more content you provide that helps your target audience, the more visible your web presence will become. Did you know that every blog post is a unique web page? With every new page added to your website (your blog is part of your website right?), you increase your digital footprint and have one more opportunity to rank for a particular keyword phrase. Ideally you should strive to blog as often as you can, but even one blog post a month will increase online visibility and advance your website in the search engine results.

4. Tune-up your website copy.

You have just a few seconds to capture the attention of visitors to your website. They will quickly scan the page, and if they can’t locate what they are looking for, they move on just as quickly as they arrived. Due to the short attention span of most online users, every word on your website matters. To make it easy for visitors, incorporate attention-grabbing headings and break up text with bulleted lists. The copy on your pages should appeal to the wants and needs of your target audience, while making it easy for them to find answers they need.

5. Make it hot.

Do your research, and find out which keywords for your market are “hot” and frequently used on search engines. Websites like Wordtracker.com allow you to see the amount of times a keyword has been searched in the last 24 hours. Once you’ve figured out what those “hot” keywords are, incorporate them into your posts.

6. Visual storytelling on slideshare.

Brand yourself by creating a visually-appealing story on SlideShare. Serve up eye-catching imagery, creative copy and an intriguing presentation to captivate your audience.  Doing things and telling people about you inspires visitors to know, like and trust your personal brand. Tell stories that only you can tell. Brand advocates come to bat for the person who shares their authentic story through creative channels, such as SlideShare. Stories will always be popular if the story teller entertains, educates and inspires. Above all, SlideShare is a great medium for all the introverts out there or immigrants, whose first language is not English. Play with images and words, experiment, have fun. No excuses. On a side note, if you are struggling to get the confidence in public speaking or you are terrified speaking in front of a camera or a large audience, read this on Medium.

Small businesses often fall into the trap of updating social media pages sporadically. Try to make consistent social media engagement a priority, whether you interact online weekly or twice a month. Social search is gaining traction, and these social media engagements could really boost your visibility in 2018.