Probably one of the most important things to have when starting a new site is a high search engine ranking. With most sites, search engines can account for up to 95% of traffic. If you're not placed in the first three pages, it's unlikely you'll get any traffic from a search engine. Google is one of the fastest growing search engines, a high listing here will guarantee you traffic. Google's results are also used by Yahoo when it's finished displaying its own results. To get a high ranking in google you need to design your pages and promotional methods around it.

Also its important to get a high popularity rating, google for example when listing sites will show more popular sites first. It can work this out from how many other sites link to it and the popularity of those sites!

~ANDY~

Hi! You both are right, but it's funny how things work out. One day you're in page number one and the next you're at the bottom. I am in the mailing list of someone who has a lot of sites. One of them got 92,204 hits one month and he doesn't have a single reciprocal link in his site! He has a huge mailing list and it is people linking to HIM rather than he to THEM. Interesting, isn't it?
Take care!

Yes, this is all directly related to Google PageRank, or PR. PR is determined via a complicated algorithm which apparently highly regards incoming links (or backlinks). The idea is that if a lot of sites link to a particular page, that page must have good content.

It's been awhile so I just thought I'd clarify. PR has nothing to do with how well you rank in the engines. When a page has PR, it encourages google spiders to crawl the page more often and more thoroughly, and therefore dig deeper into your site and spider and index more pages of your site - with more pages constantly indexed and spidered deeper and more often, Google ranking goes up

http://brandonteohno1-it.blogspot.co...of-google.html

I have come to the point in which I don't worry about it anymore! It goes up and down and whatever! It's happening to others I know, it's just THEM, and I just let it be.
Thanks everyone for all your input.

if you dont have the google toolbar you can check your pagerank here
http://www.yourfutureriches.com/pagerank/
have fun

so a page rank of 1 means i'm number one out of all the websites on google?

i'm the man!

lol no but you might get a few free passwords out of it!