I know I’m going to piss off a lot of SEOs by giving this away for free but I think it’s high time that this information was made public domain.
For too long, the snake oil salesmen have charged thousands of dollars for this kind of stuff but that’s all about to change. I’m about to reveal a trade secret to you that will move your mid ranking page 9 site onto the front page of Google - guaranteed!
- No bluff
- No bluster
- No bullshit
A page one Google result or your money back!
The first thing you need to do is open up Google and then search for your site using your chosen keyword. This method will only guarantee you front page Google results if your site is currently listed in the first ten pages of search results. If your site ranks outside of the first ten pages of SERPs than I can only guarantee a 90% improvement on your Google results.
OK so now that you’ve got your Google results open and can see that your site is currently listed on page 9, here’s the clever bit. The bit where the SEO experts will charge you thousands of dollars and that I’m giving you for free.
A front page listing on Google!
The next thing you need to do is click on the option marked Preferences on your Google page.
Now that you’ve go this page open, here comes the most important part. The bit that will give you the highly coveted Google front page result so make sure you pay attention to this bit. It might help printing this page out and reading it again just in case you miss out on the pertinent points.
Scroll down the Personalised page until you reach the part where it says Number of Results. Here’s the clever part! Click on the drop down selection and change your results from the default 10 to 100.
Once you’ve done that, click on the Save Preferences option.
Now go back into Google and search for your keyword that was previously ranked on page 9 and what do you see?
A front page result on Google!
Forget those SEO sharks and charlatans, you can get onto the front page of Google for free by just following these simple steps.
Good luck with your ventures and I look forward to seeing you on Google really soon 
Tech Tags: Google, Search, SEO
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60 responses so far ↓
Miles Burke // Jul 3, 2007 at 4:08 am
Haha, like it. Where do I send my money for this tip?
Mike // Jul 3, 2007 at 11:22 am
Hmmm…maybe I should install the Buy-Me-A-Beer plugin after all!
Thanks for stopping by, Miles. I look forward to seeing the new Web 2.0 colour palette when it’s done
Darryl // Jul 3, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Now that’s just plain wrong.
LMAO
Chris // Jul 4, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Genius tip!
Where do I send my money?
Can I pay you to turn nofollow off my comments?
Oh wait, you’re not John Chow after all…
Mike // Jul 4, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Darryl - Yes but it feels sooooo good!
Hehehe Chris. DoFollow is free. Just like my tip to get on the front page of Google
Bryan Eisenberg // Jul 5, 2007 at 10:13 am
That was wonderful for an early morning laugh. You do know what SEO stands for right? Search Engine Optimists http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=2228031
Mike // Jul 5, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Search Engine Optimists? I like it, Bryan
yebot // Jul 5, 2007 at 2:10 pm
funny.
Maki // Jul 5, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Hilarious. Thanks for the tip, Mike
Mike // Jul 5, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Nice of you to drop by, Maki
How’s things going with the Megite site?
Mislove // Jul 5, 2007 at 7:48 pm
YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!
j/k
I loved it!
Otto // Jul 6, 2007 at 1:15 pm
This was quite funny! Fooled me, then pissed me off… but i get it.
Mike // Jul 6, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Otto - No need to add the URL signature, my friend. You’re already getting some link love
Otto // Jul 6, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Your my HERO!
Blog bloke // Jul 7, 2007 at 11:39 pm
April fools in July
Matt Ellsworth // Jul 23, 2007 at 6:40 pm
thats just funny - nice trick though!
McBilly // Oct 26, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Hahahaha! Darn! I thougth I was on to something! But hilarious nonetheless!
aiQUANT // Nov 6, 2007 at 7:09 pm
you wasted 2 precious minutes of my life… i will not buy you beer.
Mike // Nov 6, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Oh go on…you know it’s worth it…
Andy Bolton // Nov 13, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Brilliant !!!
i’d buy you a pint !!!
Dan // Nov 13, 2007 at 2:01 pm
very funny
pozowebs // Dec 4, 2007 at 2:28 am
Very good! Thanks for the tip
:)
rob // Dec 20, 2007 at 9:50 am
Ho Ho Ho - tis the season to be jolly
JC // Dec 21, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Even a more guaranteed way is to make that change and do a google blog search… I have mine set to 50 though. 100 seems a bit much.
Greg // Dec 24, 2007 at 10:52 am
Amazing!
AskApache // Jan 6, 2008 at 10:25 am
Until I got half-way through this entertaining post I thought you could be talking about a very real SEO technique that consistently places pages on the AskApache blog in the top 10.
Search google for any of the following: wordpress 404
or: google 404
or: google seo plugin
Its simply a way to query all the google indexes for your site+keywords whenever someone lands on your 404 page.
Check out the dramatic difference this plugin makes for the following mis-typed urls. The first link is on your site, the 2nd is on mine.
how-to-get-on-google-front-page-guaranteed-super-tree
how-to-get-on-google-front-page-guaranteed-super-tree
The plugin’s homepage is here Google 404 SEO
Mike // Jan 9, 2008 at 1:17 am
I like the concept but the 404 page on your site took an age to download. If I were a casual surfer I would have clicked away before the Google results were displayed.
Have you found that time outs are an issue? I really like the idea behind it.
harena // Jan 17, 2008 at 12:52 am
i dont understand, can you explain exactly pleasz
Mike // Jan 17, 2008 at 1:41 am
Harena - Les instructions sont en haut. C’est une plaisanterie
zobib // Jan 21, 2008 at 10:58 am
je sais bien que c’est une plaisenterie, mais mon but c’est d’avoir les backl…………………. , merci mike
Mike // Jan 22, 2008 at 6:04 pm
For those who don’t read French, what Zobib has just said is that they know it’s a joke but they just want the backlink.
As far as comment spamming goes, you’ve got to hand it to them
Needless to say I’ve now removed the links and added them to the blacklist.
Cindy // Jan 23, 2008 at 7:09 pm
That was a hoot! However, with a high speed connection, I reset my preferences to 30, and that pleases me greatly. Plus, I’m in the middle of those first page results
Off to see what other gems of yours that I’ve been missing.
Mike // Jan 25, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Hi Cindy - Welcome to Twenty Steps and thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. If you find any of those gems, please feel free to let me know where I left them!
Greg // Feb 8, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Hi I tried this and indeed it seemed to be a joke at first.
However, I found out my company was not even listed in the first 10 pages.
When I returned to the 10 results display, my company was listed as the second position (without even typing my company name) !!! I swear to god it worked!
Thanks anyway for this hint!
Greg
Mike // Feb 12, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Glad it worked out for you, Greg.
That’ll be $5000, please
Daniel - Swaggerspot // Feb 22, 2008 at 9:00 am
great site
John // Feb 24, 2008 at 10:24 am
You’ll never guess how much I paid for this advice, last month….. GGgggrrrr I’m going to ask for my money back…
Peter // Feb 25, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Man thats great , I tried it with my site lol
thanks peter
why // Apr 14, 2008 at 12:13 am
twat why waste ppls time
Mike // Apr 14, 2008 at 11:39 am
Thanks for your insightful observations. Do come again.
Printing Australia // Apr 24, 2008 at 7:17 am
Very Funny… I wonder if I can get listed on the front page of google for Printing Australia… I could be rich!
Mike // Apr 24, 2008 at 11:00 am
Well you won’t do it by dropping your anchor text here. I’ve removed your URL and suggest you have a peek at the comment policy
Jeff // May 2, 2008 at 3:16 pm
This is amazing. thanks for the trick. i am already seeing a huge surge in traffic from it!
Jacqui // Jun 5, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I tired this and still can not find us with just using our business name…there are so many of Perfect Image Photography….we come up from places I have us listed but not a direct link to our site? Any tips?
Mike // Jun 10, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Have you ever ranked for that search phrase? Do any of your inbound links use that anchor text?
Webmaster // Jun 14, 2008 at 5:09 am
Man,
Thats a tip that every webmaster would love to do.
Afterall, we all like to see our sites appearing on Page 1.
ijunk // Jun 25, 2008 at 3:19 am
lol…..
it’s fun….
For me, it should be changed from 10 to 1000 (but nothing 1000, only up to 100)…
lol…
Rey // Jun 28, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Even as a joke, this is still a great tip … scrolling down a list of 50 or a 100 is so much easier than clicking (and scrolling down) through pages of 10.
Plus, it’s always nice to be on the first page, however big that page may be!
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