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The content on it was pretty thin, a lot of results scraped from eBay and not done in any particular 'over time' method. I'd love to get this ranking again as I spent some time building backlinks for it, but Google would never index it.

I've now moved it to a shiny new server where hopefully it will live long a prosper.

How to get number one in Google? This is the question every internet marketer on the planet asks, but what does it really mean? For example, my blog which is about internet marketing and search engine optimization is currently on the first page of Google for the phrase 'how to get number one in Google', but does that get me traffic? Not really, the bulk of my traffic is people looking for 'fake URL' or 'unlock nokia 6230i', so…do I make money from that? Yes I do, but only a little.  Let me explain…

There are more web pages on the internet than there are people on the planet. The difference between people and web pages is that web pages are much easier to find than people. If you were looking for a 7 foot Scottish man with one leg who speaks Danish, Japanese and English, it would take some research to find such a man, but I bet there are one or two guys around who fit that description!

On the other hand, if you searched Google for something obscure like 'beekeeping and making honey in the orkney isles' then you would find just 37,000 results for that. Most internet marketers will tell you that keyphrases with anything less than 300,000 results are a doddle and are easy to rank for and, on the whole, they are right.  To prove the point, do a search for my phrase from above…"beekeeping and making honey in the orkney isles" with the quotation marks and I guarantee this article will be number one, not because it is about beekeeping or honey, but because the only time it has ever been mentioned on the internet is here in this article.

OK, so now I have explained how to get number one in Google, and that is the answer, but, what you need to do now is to work out what the question was. It goes something like "what is the phrase that people are likely to search for that nobody else has ever thought of?".

It's actually not as hard and as weirdly tangential as I am making it sound, I'm just trying to get your interest to make you more curious about the way I work and the way you should be thinking if you want to be on the first page of Google.

It tells you what to do with it there: basically just go to settings>writing and paste your list into the 'update services' box. By default it only has http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ there so I am going to paste this list in:

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

just click 'save changes' and you are done:)

I'll show you about Feedburner and then pinging, hopefully by then we will be kicking some Google Ass!

Go to settings>privacy settings and then check the box that says "I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers". I don't understand why this should ever be unchecked, so make sure it isn't!

Now go to settings>permalinks.

At least change it to "date/sample-post/"

but I find it better to use a custom string which is

/%category%/%postname%/

once this is done you need to update your .htaccess file – if this is writeable on the server, Wordpress will do it for you, if not you need to manually add this code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

OK now to make a post to check it is working:

Before I did this I went to posts>categories and changed the default category 'blog' to my keyphrase 'serre chevalier services' and the post slug to 'serre-chevalier-services'.

OK I'll make my test post.

That works fine, here it is : update permalink structure