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The only time to even ponder this question is if you wish your website to attract sales or interest from customers who do not know you and are looking for your goods or services over the internet. If your website is purely an information service for current customers then the answer is obviously a straight forward no, you require no Online Marketing.

If you do wish your website to work that way then you must establish if you need optimization, or if your site is good enough in that area already. The best place to start your investigations is with your competitors and their listing, compared to you, on the internet search engine results list.

Choose your usual internet search engine, think about your sector and come up with a few quite specific words or phrases that describe loosely what products or services you provide. Then type these into the search engine one at a time and note down which of your competitors are normally listed on that first page of results. Also examine each page in turn until you locate your own website details ( if this does not occur after the first 10 pages of results you can stop searching!).

At this point you will be able to gage if your position is a lot lower that the competitors or not. If not, and you are listed up there on page 1 of the results then either you have a very specific offering, nearly no competitors or your site is already optimized to the right level. Do double check at this juncture that you have not chosen a very specific keyword or phrase for your research as this will skew results dramatically and give you a guarantee good Search Engine Placement!

If you have located your website way down the listings, or indeed you have not found your site at all in the first 10 pages then some online promotion in the form of search engine optimization may be worth doing.

There are professional businesses out there who will help you to develop your positioning in the search results and this is necessary for a decent amount of business. All the businesses currently sitting on page one of the search results will draw the attention of at least 85% of the searching customers and provided that they do actually offer what their potential customer wants they will almost certainly get the business. The customer will certainly not be ploughing through page after page of search results when his requirement is right there on page one.

The SEO Company can make certain that your positioning improves over the period of a month or two and the benefits should then make themselves noticeable.