Benefits of Being Number 1 on Google Not just first Page

Good post here at Daily Blog tips about the benefits of being 1st on Google

Although the data isn’t comprehensive it backs up my own anecdotal evidence

Data From One Empirical Study About Google suggests:

1. 54% people choose no.1
2. 13% number 2
3. 9% number 3
4. 4% number 4
5. 4%
6. 3%
7. 1%

• Position number 9 may only be 1%

It may be better to be number 1 for a less competitive keyword search, rather than no. 9 for a  highly popular one.

One thing I would note is that it will vary from keyword to keyword. Some keywords like a definition of a word, people are likely to be happy with 1 page. Other keywords where there is more ambiguity and differences of opinion, people will be less satisfied with just choosing number one and will look throughout other pages.

For some keywords I get the occassional traffic, even though I am ranking something ridiculous like number 80 or even 224!

Recently I had a number 1 postion for a very popular keyword search related to economics / finance. The increase in traffic was amazing. But, I always feared losing the position, and a couple of months later I slipped down to number 3. (Beaten by the Guardian Newspaper)

One thing I did was to buy a domain name with the keyword in. It is worth having a site exclusively for that keyword hoping to cement the number one spot.

 How To Get Number One on Google?

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Alas, you’re not the only one trying to be number one. But, here are some tips. How To Improve Ranking on Google