Gaining that coveted #1 spot on google

How Does Google Decide Which Sites Are Relevant To A Query?

Ah, yes… the billion-dollar question (perhaps more aptly re-worded as saying, “So how can I make Google rank my site for a certain query?”). Well, here’s an extract from my linkvana review…

Before I explain how Google ranks sites, let me show you an example. Please take a moment and open a NEW browser window. Head to Google.com, and then search for the following key phrase:

“click here”

What comes up as the #1 listed site is Adobe.com’s page where you can download Adobe Reader. Now - why is Adobe Reader considered by Google to be relevant to the search term “click here”? Why not rank a site that has to do with “clicking”, or perhaps a site with a domain name such as “clickhere.com”?

The answer is fairly simple - because Google uses a natural, link-based voting system (which is exactly what linkvana helps you achieve) to determine how to rank any given site within its index. So in other words, though there are many factors involved in how a site ranks, Adobe Reader’s download page has the most links pointing to it from across the internet (on tens of thousands of different sites) whose links with that URL are worded with the phrase: “click here”.