> What I really meant to highlight is you cannot have a business online that google does not approve of without great difficulty I disagree. I have worked at s

> What I really meant to highlight is you cannot have a business online that google does not approve of without great difficulty I disagree. I have worked at several companies with very successful sales and marketing departments where referrals from google were a noticeable but ultimately unimportant part of the revenue picture. I have also worked at a place that literally lived and died by the grace of a top ranking on google, once we hit the 2nd and then 3rd page, the business was basically dead. This sucked, but it was very nice for the company that replaced us. There is no inherent reason why one company should be entitled to the slot any more than any other (besides the google algorithm that determines ranking).