Getting to the Top of Google in 2009
Friday, December 19th, 2008Every business seems to be trying to get to the top in Google or at least in the top 2 pages, but how difficult is it to do this and how do you stay top?
This is the question that has troubled many business proprietors and Search Engine Optimization. Google is the leading search engine in the world and performs over 60% of all searches in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. Google is so dominant it has even cornered the non English speaking market with it’s regional Google search engines. There are still of course other search engines still vying for the remaining searches such as Yahoo! (with a 18% share), MSN/Live (with a 4% share), and Ask (with a 3% share), but their search engine share shows that they make little more then minor dents in Google’s dominanace.
In the early years before Google came to the fore there where other search engines with a respectable share of the search market such as Altavista, Excite and Dogpile but these seems to have become almost obsolete.
So what should you do have your business listed first in Google, or to at least appear in the Google top 10 rankings and not be listed in pages which never get searched because they are so near the end.In short you need to increase your page rank, have as many inbound links as you can have and avoid the infamous Google Sandbox.