I Know This Is Wrong
I Know This Is WrongOkay, you would think I'd know better.
We do search engine optimisation for a lot of sites. And some of them are fantastic sites. Best in their category.
But achieving a top 10 search engine ranking for competitive key words (that is, a word or phrase that gets searched for a lot) even for excellent sites is a lot of hard work. It takes time, patience and expertise.
So I know that the sites that come up # 1 or 2 or 3 etc aren't necessarily the best sites. Quite often the best sites won't even be in the top 50.
I know that.
But Here I am.....
But here I am. I'm searching for an mp3 recorder to record my speeches using a Tie Pin microphone (I'm thinking that if I can record the actual speeches, I can listen later for some quality assessment of how I really went).
Anyway......I've been searching. I'll check a site out thoroughly before I move on. And what I do is only check the top 3 or 4 results (if that). If I don't find what I'm looking for I'll try another search term.
That's crazy. I know (Through my experience) that the best sites don't necessarily come up # 1 or 2 on the search engines. But my mind assumes that.
Typical Man
And when I don't quickly find what I want I move on. Typical man - no concentration!
(I prefer to think of it as 'gatherer' mentality!)
The point is: search engine rankings (and high search engine rankings) are critical to online success.
How do you search? Do you go past the first page?
Cheers
Brendon
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I usually look at the first few items on the first half dozen or so pages, but more importantly than that is I read the snippet on the search page. For instance, if I Google Tailored Consulting, some little no name company comes up as number one (kidding, of course it's you) and your snippet, or meta tag says "Tailored Consulting are specialists with web site marketing, media and web
development. Contact us for your web marketing and development needs." That's relevant.
BTW - get yourself an iPod with a voice recorder, it'll do all your looking for with your speeches, etc.
-steve
But I agree with you wholeheartedly :)