How far into google do you go?

by Naets

Posted: 12 years ago 11 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

When I search for something I rarely go past the first page, mainly because I do find more or less what I'm looking for on the first page.

But I was wondering, how far do YOU go when you search for something in google? But more importantly, if you do go past page 1, do you still find good info? And is the "best" information always on sites on the first page?

And from a different perspective, is it worth having your site be on the 2nd or 3rd page?

#google #search

Martin Pupke 12 years ago

Most of the time I do not go past the first page, because what I am looking for is either on the first page or I realized I used a non-effective search string.

However for certain types of tasks I can go all the way to page 10 for a large number of search strings.

I would say that having your site on page 2 or 3 for a particular term is way worse than having it on page 1, but much better than having it on page 10.
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Trevor M 12 years ago

It depends on what it is I'm looking for.

When I'm doing research, yeah I sometimes end up going to about page 5. But it's very rare.

Usually there's not much point. I'd say 99% of searches can find the answer that they're looking for in the first 3 listings of page 1.

Not to mention the first few websites are usually the best ones in the niche. So yeah, I think the best information is always going to be on page one.

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Joseph Robinson Banned 12 years ago

I rarely Google these days outside of looking for a specific piece of information or a specific answer to a specific question. I rarely have to go past result #5 to get what I need.

Now if I'm looking for a funny picture to post, I'll probably go through 20-30 to make sure no better option is being left on the table. Priorities.
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Litherland 12 years ago

Honestly i only go on the first page. I browse probably the top 3 or 4 organic searches and see what PPC has to offer for what im looking for..
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BloggingPro 12 years ago

As deep as she'll let me?

More seriously I rarely go past page two. Sometimes page one doesn't have what I'm looking for, so I'll hit up page two. If not on there, I'll manually refine my search and see what comes of that.
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- JohnMcCabe 12 years ago
  
  It depends on both what I'm looking for and what comes up.
  
  If I really want to know something, and the results on the first page are promising, I have no problem going ten pages deep. For some things, I know I'm going to have to skip a few pages of affiliate "reviews" to get to real information. Other times, I'll scan the first page, and see that the results are nowhere close to what I intended, so I'll change the query.
  
  Then again, for simple stuff like phone numbers, the info I want is often in the link or description already, so I end up clicking nothing.
  
  Like another poster said, being on page three isn't as good as being on page one (in terms of raw numbers). But it does beat being on page 11.
  
  I know it borders on heresy, but I really don't sweat where I rank for specific keywords anymore. Enough years of looking at my sites' stats and the search queries used to find them have taught me that I'm never going to think of all of them anyway. So I create content that gets me even more of those weird way-out-on-the-long-tail visitors, and focus on crafting that content to serve the folks who visit my site - no matter how they got there.
  
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Peter May 12 years ago

I feel the question you are asking is how far into Google do most go, I say this because being IMers we probably search differently than the standard surfer, using longer tail KWs phrase matches, negative search streams etc.

So our results would not be typical, when I am searching it depends on whether it is for business or personal. If it is to outrank competition I am only interested above the fold if I can't get there it is not worth going any further. For personal e.g. looking to buy or info seeking I will go slightly further only because I can spot IMing niche sites and if that is not what I am looking for then I will go further.

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tryme1 12 years ago

I have literally no patience, so if I can't find something in the first few organic or PPC listings, I switch to Bing and if I can't find it there either, I get annoyed and give up!
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- rtekmould Banned 12 years ago
  
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  BloggingPro 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by rtekmould
  
  Sorry, i can't say anything about that..........
  
  Well thank you for that very astute response! Next time you want to drop a one liner that adds absolutely nothing to the conversation remove your sig links.
  
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Naets 12 years ago

Thanks for all the feedback guys
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