Page one of Google is the dream of every blogger and business out there. As proved by the stats, one can get enough traffic hike to boost the sales.

Also, the traffic from Google are the customers who will be buying more than any other source of traffic.

You nailed it all in. On page SEO and off page SEO are equally important to rise the website and thus increase sales.

To answer your question, it means a lifetime to be on first page on Google and yeah I checked the duck duck go just now, it is awesome.

Hi Lisa
It is a tough game for sure, but it all depends on the niche and topics you are targeting.
If you go for the hard and sought after words, then for sure it is a waste of time.
But with 75% of my traffic sometimes coming from Google, and I don’t have the most powerful site, I can show it is possible.
I also get a lot of traffic from referrals and social etc, but not nearly the same volume.

Having said that, it is not all about numbers as I have learnt :>
thanks for dropping by
ashley

Hey Max
I think there are some issues we can fix on your site that would help the SEO, but we also need to research the words you can win traffic for.
Broken links are a bad SEO signal for sure, although not a killer. It is something you can find and fix with the right tools.

But it does seem that you are indirectly becoming a bit of a star, which is also cool. Some of the best start out in other areas.
Take Rebekah Radice the social media star, who started out doing social media in Real Estate.
Gotta start somewhere.
thanks for dropping by
ashley

Hi Catherine
No surprise you have a love hate relationship with Google
The difficulty is in finding the words to rank for. If you fight the wrong battle you will certainly lose.
Unless you have money to pay a great SEO service.
But if you can rank, even for some niche long tail words, then things will only get better!
take care
ashley

Hi Kumar
I think it is very smart to work on other methods of getting customers. I do that too.
But people forget about optimizing for Google because everyone is against it.
It does not have to be killer hard work or the only thing that you do, but I recommend doing it because in the end the results are there and mostly free.

Of course not having all your eggs in the Google basket is also a good strategy and building your email list and social media followings help a lot too.
But then trying and failing are all part of the game!
I appreciate your comment
ashley

Hi Jeannette,
You are right of course. A lot of traffic does bounce. But then again, so does a lot of my social media traffic.
People are fickle and I can only hope that if I can rank for my keywords in my region (something I am working on with a new site) it will help.
As you mentioned, it is not necessarily right, as a web designer can work from anywhere, but it is the easiest result I suppose.
And at least you can meet them :>

The fact that Google now controls the information, amazon the book and rest, and some other hosting monopolies control our sites.
As Steven Wright once intelligently stated “isn’t it funny that only one company makes the game Monopoly?”. So much truth in that.

thanks for the comment
ashley

Hi Ryan
Google is a bit of a beast, and tough to understand but there are a few fundamentals we need to adhere to.
Great content, use of keywords, a little research and then hopefully powerful links (the hard part).
Thanks for popping by as usual
ashley

Thanks Adam
Things are improving on Google and it makes it a little harder too, but we can only try!