How Do I Get My Website On Google?
Do you know how to get your website on Google’s front page without having to pay an arm and a leg for advertising? How to make it appear among the first 10 ‘organic’ free search results Google selects for each search term?
It sounds like an easy question, and many think the answer is as easy as just ‘submitting your website to Google‘.
If it was that easy to get high rankings on Google then everybody could get high rankings. However, it’s obvious that only 10 websites will make it to Google’s front page for a given search phrase and Google chooses these websites carefully.
In fact, appearing on Google’s front page has become a pretty complicated subject. These days, the three major players in the search engine business are Google, Yahoo and Bing. Google accounts for about 70 percent of all online searches, followed by Yahoo and Bing with each about 12-15 percent. Far behind are Ask and others with 5 percent.
To show up in the search engines free search results without having to pay for advertising, your website of course needs to be listed with these search engines. But simply submitting your site is like purchasing a lottery ticket – it doesn’t mean you are the winner of a top position. It simply means that the search engine knows your website exist.
If you have no or little competition you might rank well for your particular product or service term, but if you are providing services similar to hundreds or thousands of other companies, you probably won’t find your website among the first 100 search results in Google’s or Yahoo.
So, going back to our example with the lottery ticket – what can you do to increase your odds of winning? The answer is: Search Engine Optimization.
Optimize your web site and you are likely to get more traffic from search engines.
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