How to rank high in Google

[mumbledawg]

So let's do a search and tell me what you see, what do the top ranking sites have in common.

Search term: <any generic product name>

The one thing I see and have been seeing for awhile.
The manufacturers site is in the top 10.
Huge sites like epinions and amazon are in the top 10.
Does the amount of pages your site has have anything to do with how high you rank?

Search for any popular product and I see the same type of results. Sometimes the search term isn't even in the title tag.

[edited by: Woz at 12:16 am (utc) on Nov. 25, 2004]
[edit reason] No specifics please, see TOS#13 [/edit]

[Hissingsid]

Hi,

FWIW I think that one of the problems that we all have, in terms of offering advice, is that no one really knows what, amongst the many things that they have done to their site and links to and from that site really contribute to success.

There are many different recipes that tickle Google's taste buds but who really knows what are the main vital ingredients. Very small sites can and do rank well in competitive areas so size can be overcome if you get the other elements just right. Through trial and error some of us find strategies that work and think that we have found THE answer. In fact we have only found AN answer and most of us don't have a clue what the question really is.

Best wishes

Sid

[harishkumar09]

Thanks for the replies guys.

[internetheaven]

So how does a small mom and pop vac store compete with the likes of Amazon

If "mom and pop" got to number one on Google and got 100 sales a day - could they cope? Big companies monopolising the top results is better than giving smaller companies the chance to screw things up ...

Remember, it's all about what's in the best interests of the user, not what's fair trading ...

[mumbledawg]

I think most people know about the big stores like Amazon, Sears, Dell etc and know how to find the manufacturers sites. I think they are using a search engine because they want to find something different.

I guess they will eventually learn to skip over the first few pages of Google when they constantly see the same sites come up first no matter what product they search for.