How Much is a Google Top Ranking Worth?

But how much exactly is a top ranking on Google worth? What can a top ranking on Google do for your business?

 

If your website isn’t sitting at the top of the search engines, you’re letting thousands of dollars worth of potential sales slip right through your fingers… it’s that simple.

 

Here’s why:

 

Over 40% of web users only look at the first page of their search results (the top 10 websites listed)…

 

So if YOUR business isn’t listed on the first page, you’re losing TONS of sales to your competitors who are!

 

Paid search results are worth $37.7 million per day

 

Google published its earnings last month. Google-owned sites (i.e. mainly the search results) generated revenues of $3.40 billion in the first quarter of 2008 (that’s about $37.7 million per day).

 

Advertisers wouldn’t pay Google so much money if they didn’t profit from it. The dollar amount indicates how much it is worth to be listed on Google’s first result page. And these numbers only represent the value of the paid search results.

 

Listings in the natural search results are worth even more

 

An iProspect study showed that 60.5 percent of Google, Yahoo!, MSN and AOL users selected a natural (unpaid) search result over paid search result as the most relevant on a sample query. 60.8 percent of Yahoo! and 72.3 percent of Google search engine users chose a natural search result as the most relevant

 

That means that you will get many more clicks with an natural search engine listing than with a paid listing.

 

In addition, studies by Enquiro and iProspect revealed that 60.5% to 70.0% of users trust organic results while only 30% to 39.5% of users trust paid results.

 

In late 2007, information about an internal Google tool that assigned dollar values to the search results leaked:

 

Illustration: leaked Google data

 

It turned out that the Google tool was used by members of the AdWords sales team to help prioritize new customer acquisition.

 

Natural results deliver a higher return-on-investment

 

As you can see above, a listing in the natural search results is worth much more than a listing in the paid results:

 

  • web surfers click natural search results much more often
  •  

  • web surfers trust natural search results more
  •  

    Although natural search results generate the most amount of targeted high quality traffic, there is still a great deal of companies that continue to spend their entire marketing budgets on pay per click advertising instead of investing in natural search engine optimization.

     

    Optimizing your websites for high rankings in Google’s natural search results provides a much better return-on-investment than pay per click ads. The value of a listing in the natural search results quickly pays for the investment you have to make in natural search engine optimization.

     

    The SEO solution:

    The truth is you DON’T have to be a programming whiz or an Internet marketing master to drive TONS of free, targeted traffic to your website from the search engines.

    “Discover The Secret SEO Club That Thousands Of Website Owners Are Using To Send Swarms Of Targeted Visitors To Their Websites For FREE…”

     

    Using the right combination of simple SEO strategies can get you sky high search engine rankings for a lot less effort than you may think!

     

    And here’s proof… => Search Engime Marketing Lab

    Gary Neame
    http://www.articlesbase.com/sem-articles/how-much-is-a-google-top-ranking-worth-690189.html

    This is exactly what Easy Local SEO can do for you! Fresh original content will be generated every month that gets your website Higher SEO Page Rank in ALL the major search engines!! Get Your FREE Custom website SEO report today – www.EasyLocalSEO.com

    4 Responses to “How Much is a Google Top Ranking Worth?”

    • TAO says:

      15K unique visitor/day website worth how much ?
      I have a website , which is an online web tool that help people to download information. How much is my website worth if :
      1) Daily visitor average 15,000 visitors or 500,000 visitors per month.
      2) Earning from affiliate program average USD 1,000 per month
      3) no running google adsense or any contextual ads (so got potential extra earning if do this)
      4) website is 2 years old
      5) Alexa ranking is top 50,000

      thanks for your advise and evaluation.

    • Litly says:

      There are many such services.
      References :
      http://www.valuemyweb.com/

    • Kudos from one brainiac to another. :)

    • This is a great blog I can not believe I didn’t wander onto it already

    Leave a Reply

    • Google Readying Google Drive, Dropbox-Like Cloud Storage February 11, 2012
      Google is readying a Dropbox-like service and will soon enter the cloud computing storage market. The Google Drive is expected to allow users to store documents, photos and videos on the cloud and make them accessible from any connected device. […]
      V3
    • LinkedIn Shares Mobile Advertising Ambitions February 11, 2012
      During its quarterly earnings call, CEO Jeff Weiner said mobile access represents an ever-growing share of time users spend with LinkedIn. He said the company is investigating ways to monetize those page views with mobile advertising. […]
      ClickZ
    • Yahoo Search Engine Market Share Slips in January 2012 February 10, 2012
      A month after Bing surpassed Yahoo to became the No. 2 search engine in the U.S., Yahoo’s search share continued to decline in the New Year, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Google climbed past a 66 percent share of the search market. […]
      Danny Goodwin
    • Craig Silverstein, Larry & Sergey’s First Hire, Quits Google February 10, 2012
      Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, is leaving the company. Silverstein, who helped build the Google search engine, met Page and Brin while the three attended Stanford. […]
      Danny Goodwin
    • Google Retires Drop-Down Menu, Black Navigation Bar Returns February 10, 2012
      Google’s drop-down menu, which was introduced in late November as part of the “next stage” of its massive redesign, is history. Google will revert to an updated version of the black navigation bar that began appearing ahead of the launch of Google+. […]
      Danny Goodwin
    February 2012
    M T W T F S S
    « Aug    
     12345
    6789101112
    13141516171819
    20212223242526
    272829