BT Business and Google have announced that they are to offer digital marketing services to small businesses.

Through BT Business becoming a Google AdWords Authorised Reseller small firms can now access Google's base of millions of UK users and receive professional, full-service AdWords account management through BT Business.

"Small businesses are looking to the internet to compete and grow in these tough economic times and our own research across 700,000 small business websites shows that the majority need help to optimise search and effectively use search engine marketing," said Bill Murphy, managing director of BT Business.