The importance of search engine ranking
My web design business, MB Web Design, recently moved from position #3 to #2 on Google.co.uk for the term “web design”. Since then I’ve been inundated with enquiries and click-through traffic from Google has nearly doubled. Doubled! All because I’m one position higher, it’s really quite remarkable. How long I’ll stay at #2 is anybody’s guess - the top few contenders maintain constant and aggressive online marketing and link-building campaigns. For now, at least, it’s nice to feel like Mr. Popular.
October 13th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
I’m a freelance journalist and my website http://www.rodneyedwards.co.uk is currently sitting at number 7 in Google for the term “Freelance Journalist”. Even better, it’s at number 3 for “UK Journalist” - never underestimate the power of Google to help your business.
October 13th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
That is what we call in the business a “shameless plug”. Good to see you Rodney and glad things are going well!
October 14th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Haha! a shameless plug? Never!
October 15th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Your business site is a PR4 as of now you can easily get to PR5 and with more hard work to PR6… if you try to move ahead at least you will fear less of loosing
October 15th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Actually, toolbar PR is not the current pagerank. If your site is listed in Google directory, you can look your site up and find it’s real (current) pagerank. My business site is a 5 or a 6 (it;s hard to tell from the tiny .gif bar they use…
October 16th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Interesting. I didn’t know I was able to check out the current PageRank that way. It would be easier to tell for sure with the numbers there, though.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:12 am
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March 6th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Thanks for the tip on finding the current pagerank. I am off to check my sites now.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
Thats excellent news. I suggest to my clients that getting seen in Google is the most popular factor for your business. You need to see clients and new leads so it is vital to keep moving up the Google rankings.