When you can get to the first or second page on Google, your website is busy selling for you, without you having to do any work. What a great sales person.

Everyone wants to get to the top. However, the competition is not as tough as it might seem.

Few people are inclined to go to the touble to do the things it takes to get to the top, especially if you are operating in a regional or niche market.

My experiments with blogging have shown excellent results. A number of my websites are now on the first or second page
of Google, at least one is number 1.

Here are some of the better results.

Website Search Words Rank Out of Hits
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- www.israelidancing.info israeli dancing 16 635,000
- www.israelipartnerdancing.com israeli partner dancing 1 264,000
- www.israelipartnerdancing.com partner dancing 9 4,320,000
- www.jewishnetwork.com jewish events 5 15,000,000
- www.partnershipdancing.com partnership dancing 2 2,380,000

Google keeps its algorithm a secret.

It seems, some of the key elements in getting highly ranked are:

1. Relevant to the search words
2. Quantity of content, preferably changing
3. Matching domain name
4. Quantity of incoming quality links
5. Incoming links from blogger
6. Age of domain registration
7. Page file name and path matching search terms

I have been experimenting with social bookmarking also and expect that to have a good result also.

Google can get you a lot of leads and you should take advantage of this marketing opportunity.

Beware that Google can also cut you off, so you cannot depend on Google. They can drop you at anytime without notice and without giving you any recourse.

Develop your email list to keep your own online marketing channels open.

By Andrew Weitzen (c) 2010

Weitzen is the publisher of several online Internet journals including: InternetHandholding.com, DomainNames.gs, DotNetNuke.bz, Programmer.bz, Software.vg, WebHosting.vg