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.

9 thoughts on “The importance of search engine ranking

  1. 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

  2. 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…

  3. 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.

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  5. 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.

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