Which search engine is the ultimate test?

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Steve Horrillo

Is there a single engine or directory that can tell you if "you've made it
to the big time?" Is Yahoo number one? I find that my ranking varies widely
from engine to engine for the same search term. Which one's should I shoot
for?

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Roy Schestowitz

Steve said:
Is there a single engine or directory that can tell you if "you've made it
to the big time?" Is Yahoo number one? I find that my ranking varies
widely from engine to engine for the same search term. Which one's should
I shoot for?

DMOZ is said to be very helpful to you Google PageRank. In fact, directories
are often valuable as a tool of enhancing ranks in search engines, but not
necessary much beyond that. Getting listed means that you are unlikely to
be a spammer or scraper.

Google currently serves the largest number of referrals, so if visitors who
target your business are the priority, Google number 1 is your goal. But
what does number 1 mean? It all depends on the search term (i.e the SERP).

Roy
 
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Lauri Raittila

Google, with some popular term...

All others depends on what's your focus. Often, there is one or two link
list pages where it is very good to get. On some subjects, if you are not
in some directory, you might be not be even found by experts, even if you
are on good place by google...
Google currently serves the largest number of referrals, so if visitors who
target your business are the priority, Google number 1 is your goal. But
what does number 1 mean? It all depends on the search term (i.e the SERP).

Yes. Google number one is very easy to get, for some terms (I actually
use google lucky search (ctrl + l) to quickly go to most of my pages)

But for some terms, it is very hard... Especially hard if your term also
means something in English, and your site is in some minor language, like
Finnish...
 
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Roy Schestowitz

Lauri said:
Google, with some popular term...

All others depends on what's your focus. Often, there is one or two link
list pages where it is very good to get. On some subjects, if you are not
in some directory, you might be not be even found by experts, even if you
are on good place by google...

Google gives some kind of a boost to new sites so getting the number one
position for just a couple of weeks might be easy. Getting number one for a
1- or 2-word phrase is hard, especially if it's a meaningful, actual term
like 'open source' or 'internet explorer 7' these days.
Yes. Google number one is very easy to get, for some terms (I actually
use google lucky search (ctrl + l) to quickly go to most of my pages)

How do you do that? I am very curious. The most efficient way for me has
been an internal site search (as in the top-right of
http://www.schestowitz.com/Portal/); I subsequently hit the first result.
Can this be made shorter?
But for some terms, it is very hard... Especially hard if your term also
means something in English, and your site is in some minor language, like
Finnish...

Very true. There is some class of software that gives you insight into SERP
popularity.

Roy
 

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