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It's no secret that most businesses are trying to grow, and you do that through sales. But getting qualified sales leads can be the toughest part of the process. What if the leads came to you? What if you didn't have to work so hard to pull in leads? Enter inbound marketing. With inbound marketing you'll create content and marketing processes that draw in more visitors who (hopefully) want to become a lead based on what they see and learn while on your website.

But is an inbound marketing strategy right for everyone? Is your business ready? Here are 10  indicators that inbound marketing is a good fit for you.

Even though the changes on how backlinks affect SEO rankings happened years ago, We're still finding that many of our clients don't quite understand what they are or how they affect their web rankings. Which is ok!

After all, we are the SEO experts and stay on top of these things so our clients can focus on running their businesses. But when we approach clients with backlink issues, there are two questions that we hear a lot, "What are backlinks?" and "Will they affect my SEO?" Well, I'm here to explain to you exactly what these backlinks are and how they will, in fact, affect your SEO.

How many times a week do you get emails and phone calls telling you that you have terrible SEO? For us it's got to be 3-5 times every single week. What are they seeing that causes such grave concern for my company and my website's health?

The simple answer? In most cases they haven't seen anything. In fact, many of them have clearly never even looked at our website before they start telling me at first how wonderful it is, followed directly by "but you aren't ranking on the first page of search results."

They're using scare tactics to try to get me to react in a way that throws money at a problem that may or may not even exist.

Everyone's been there...and then left. Been where? You know, that website that is soooooo slow. We've all attempted to visit a website that just seems like it takes forever to load!

You literally have 2 seconds to get a website to load without the visitor considering bouncing off to somewhere else.[1] Mobile users are more likely to give you a 6-10 second grace period before they head somewhere else. That means your website better load fast or you could be losing countless website leads and sales.

We all know that a good looking web design will tend to keep visitors from jumping ship in the matter of seconds. But even more important than how it looks is what the website says. If you don't clearly communicate with your audience you'll lose them. Fast. So what can you do to bring them in and keep them?