As a startup, you need your target customers to find your business online. One of the top tactics you can use is search engine optimization (SEO), but it’s highly unlikely your customers are going to be searching for your brand name.

That’s why having a strong SEO strategy in place the day you launch is so important for early-stage startups. While it’s a long tail game (at least 12 months!), it will more effectively and cost-efficiently promote your products or services to your target audience.

Growing up in a lower-middle class family as the oldest of seven, and after spending seven years on-air in radio in Salt Lake City, Utah, our guest Damon Burton founded an internationally successful search engine optimization agency in 2007 called SEO National. I’m thinking seven is Damon’s lucky number!

A husband and father of 3 kids, Damon has been featured on Forbes, Entrepreneur, BuzzFeed, USA Weekly, he’s spoken at conferences, and has optimized websites for INC5000 companies, NBA teams, and businesses featured on Shark Tank.

Damon generously shares his top SEO tactics for Startups! I’m so excited for you to learn from this extraordinary entrepreneur – and let me know which tactics you’re going to implement, okay?

Here are the links to Damon's recommendations, FREE SEO REPORT, Lost and Founder book, and Answer the Public:

Free SEO Report: https://www.seonational.com/report/
Free SEO Cheatsheet: https://www.seonational.com/free/
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074DGYVD5/
https://answerthepublic.com/

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Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/outrank/
Website https://www.seonational.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/seonational

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