I just wanted to do a quick update to my previous post about getting to number one in google. The unusual phrase I used meant that It did in fact go straight to the number one position for a search on that phrase and it did that within a few minutes of being published on his blog.
It wa first out of no less than around 80,000,000 pages!

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Now that does sound pretty impressive and it is exactly the sort of claim made by people who are selling courses and guides to building a successful online empire but you need to look a little more closely at what this result really means.

It actually means nothing. If you do a search on the same phrase but this time do the search with the phrase in quotes, which means the search is for that exact phrase with the words in that order, there are currently just two results and both refer to my page on this site.

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What happened to the other 80 million results? They were pages that had some or all of the words I was searching for but not necessarily in the right order nor in one group. They were pages that had some of the words somewhere on the page.

So look carefully when you see claims made about how someone got to number one in the search engines and how they could do the same for you if you give them some money. Things are not always as they seem.

I don't want to give the impression that all guides to being successful are a sham because they are not but do take care to examine any claims of success with results in the search engines to see how much of a challenge they really are.

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