{"id":15,"date":"2006-04-24T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T02:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2006\/04\/24\/what-does-a-small-business-want-from-a-website\/"},"modified":"2006-04-24T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T02:35:02","slug":"what-does-a-small-business-want-from-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/what-does-a-small-business-want-from-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"What does a small business want from a website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many small businesses that, even in this day and age, don&#8217;t have     a website or have one that just sits there and does nothing. What they want     is a website that makes money instead of costing money. A site that is search     engine friendly will assist in accomplishing this goal. That way the search     engines will help them by sending them traffic. When it comes to business     on the Internet, traffic is everything.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a fortune 500 company. You don&#8217;t have to wait years     or even months. You don&#8217;t have to have a multi-million-dollar budget. Anyone     can compete, even mom and pops. You just need to know the right way to go     about promoting your websites as well as optimizing them for the search engines.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve discovered is that when it comes to building web sites for     businesses, there really are no shortcuts. If you cut corners, it will always     come back to haunt you. This could lead to many, many changes or, in the     worst case, a site that just doesn&#8217;t work well.<\/p>\n<h3>What is a small business to do?<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Articles\/060330.html\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many small businesses that, even in this day and age, don&#8217;t have a website or have one that just sits there and does nothing. What they want is a website that makes money instead of costing money. A site that is search engine friendly will assist in accomplishing this goal. That way the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,22],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}