Lies About Being Number 1 in Google

This especially goes out to anyone new in Internet marketing.

(thanks James)

You will find some people out there that take advantage of the fact that you know nothing about Internet marketing, and they will generally feed you these lies:

Lie: I can guarantee you the number one ranking in Google.
Fact: No one can guarantee a top 10 in Google or any other search engine, unless it’s for a unique term that no one is searching for (read more below)

Lie: World’s number one in blah blah blah “as ranked” by Google
Fact: Google does not rank or recommend anyone. They are a search engine. Even if you are number 1 in Google for a search term, it doesn’t mean that they rank you or your company as the best. It just means you have the number 1 position in the search engine.

Here’s one such claim of being number 1 in Google:

Ranking Scam

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Comment by Sabri
2006-10-01 20:26:16

Gobala Congratz!

You already achieve top spot for the keyword, in less than 3 days! haha…
You can already put in your resume:

“Easily achieve top spot in Google without much sweat in less than 3 days” ;)

 
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