How important is Google to your site?

Hmm... Seems odd.

But the new Google thing is quite a shake up.

I had tons of results in the top 10 for many searches (some I had all 10) and now, I don't have as many. But then again, for a lot of terms, I don't have as many results, but I do have higher results.

In fact, my Google hits are up from about 120 a day with PPC (adwords) to 150 with no PPC (.com only - others not included).

Bluefrog wrote: Not sure if anyone uses the Google toolbar, but PageRank has disappeared from it~!

The PageRank feature shows up on my Google toolbar.  I'm staring at it right now.

This page ranks 0/10 on importance.

I haven't noticed much change.  Our pages show up highly and with the relevant search terms.  Most of our pages are deemed important by Google, which makes sense, since we have a lot of quality text based content.

We have no meta tags and did not do anything to try to rank highly (other than put quality content on our site), yet we do.

It appears that whatever Google is doing to pick sites is working.  When I do searches for terms that relate to our site, relevant sites come up and the relevant page from our site comes up also.

We had to rethink our design a little bit because most people arrive directly at the page they are looking for on our site instead of coming through our front page.  We had to change the navigation to make people realize we have more to offer than what they were searching for.

Since Google's results are so good, people are directed directly to the answer they are seeking on our website.  They don't have to search our website at all because Google find it on our website for them.