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Get more traffic to your small business website – 10 tactics

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Originally written by Partner Content on Small Business
Whatever your business goals of being online, getting visitors to your website is one of the key elements to success. If you’re just venturing online with a new presence or finding yourself having to compete in an increasingly online world, knowing how to boost website traffic can be scary.
Don’t worry, there are plenty of different tactics you can try as a small business or startup to get your website in the spotlight. While the results can take time, many of these tactics can be implemented with minimal or no budget.
There are two main groups of tactics, on-site ideas and off-site ideas. We’re going to explain what both of these mean including some practical ideas to get you started. You can find more detailed advice on how to implement a full list of 21 traffic boosting techniques, including the ideas shared below, in our new online guide.
On-site ideas
On-site simply means tactics and techniques you can do yourself on your website. These tactics are ideas that you can be in control of and implement on your own site. Some may require a bit of technical know-how from your web developer, but the key here is

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One in 10 small business owners contemplating suicide

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Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
One in 10 small business owners in Britain are considering suicide, according to their accountants, in their latest snapshot of SMEs.
Eleven per cent of small business owners are thinking of ending it all, overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic, while 78 per cent of SME owners have worse mental health, according to research from chartered accountants’ group ACCA and The Corporate Finance Network (CFN).
And 89 per cent of accountants say that their small business clients are generally under more stress.
>See also: Nearly half of small businesses do not intend to repay government loans
The ACCA survey shows how the coronavirus pandemic has affected small business owners’ mental health, driving many of them to consider suicide. On top of spiralling debt and a cratered economy, many independent retailers have the prospect of the next quarter day commercial property rental payment looming on June 24, despite their shops not having been open for the past three months.
Thousands of small businesses say they are firefighting immediate concerns such as cashflow pressures and resuming operations safely ahead of lockdown lift.
The biggest three fears of small businesses, according to their accountants, are being able to manage cashflow pressures, implementing social

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