How to be last on Google?

[Ajaxunion]

I would like to be last on google for a certain keyword. Any suggestions?

Also google doesnt allways show you who is last does anyone know how to get around that?

Backwards SEO!

[briggidere]

ask people linking to you to remove links
remove all references to the term from the page

not sure about being last though. Google doesn't let you see the last pages of their millions of results.

If i understand you correctly then every single indexed page on the internet could rank for the same term, but someone has to be last?

[Ajaxunion]

Someone has to be last in the serps. How do you become that person? I know in adwords you can tell google where you want to be exactly. Does anyone know how to tell google where to put you in the organic side?

The only reason I would do this is for branding purposes. Lets say I want to show that I can be last for a keyword, how would i do this.

[tedster]

If you're last in the displayed organic results, you will get NO branding because very few people click that far into the search results. If you mean being last on page one (ranking at #10) that's not being last at all. For any competitive search, that's a decent SEO achievement.

The bottom line here is that you cannot "tell" Google where to display your site in organic results. It's up to their algorithm and they naturally will not tell us how that works in any detail.

[Ajaxunion]

Thanks tedster...

But if I was purposely making myself last I would advertise that and suddenly everyone would go check it!

But as soon as they start clicking on my se listing I will be pulled out from last as I have the best ctr!

Oh well.. Just thinking of a concept that would be fun to try.

[briggidere]

If you're last how would anyone see you advert?

[g1smd]

Google only shows the first 1000 results, so anything from result 1001 onwards is never shown.

Many competitive searches show that there are tens of millions to hundreds of millions results, but you never get to see more than the first thousand.

[skunker]

the best way to get #1 and at the top of the SERPs is to try and aim for the last position.

It works.

[moehits]

Just put together a page, throw some links at it, see where it lands and slowly take things away, might be interesting to see how much it drops as you take out individual elements.

[wheel]

There was a fellow a year or two ago that grabbed like the first 5 or ten spots on Google for some non-competitive phrase. No big deal, except it was *in order* and reading down the first words of the top listings gave you something like 'use this company for your seo' or some other advert.

That's way better than top rankings; it's actually demonstrating you can make Google sit up and dance. How cool would it be to tell your prospective clients to do a search on Google, then have them read out loud down the first word of every listings? I was impressed. Not just by the technical prowess, but by the marketing prowess.