SEO in Richmond? Definitely! Richmond businesses are getting more and more Web savvy every year. And although its not yet as big a business in Richmond as in Boston or New York, search engine optimization (SEO) is becoming much more important for local merchants.

Mike Small, founder of SEO Partner, has consulted for dozens of companies since 1999 – from Sidney Australia to Boston Massachusetts. More recently in the mix is Richmond Virginia, which has hundreds of businesses who can benefit from SEO.

So how does this affect you? That’s easy. The reason Richmond is getting more SEO aware affects just about every city in the US. Even if your business is local, your competition might be global. Case in point; one of my first local clients was a Richmond based florist who was losing most of his local floral deliver business to national Internet mogul 1-800-FLOWERS.com – That is, until we Trumped their position on Google and took the business back.

And the same thing affects local bakeries, candy shops, and even print shops. In short, SEO can help any company reclaim business and get a bigger piece of the local pie as well.