Not complaining but...

[StuartDykes]

My site is as near as makes no differences a new site. I have a handful of backlinks if that, and have no pagerank. Yet I still appear on the first page for several search results in google, despite there being literally thousands of other sites out there offering the same stuff. Im not complaining, its great, but I do want to understand how this all works, so could anyone give me an explantion.

[Todd W]

PageRank only updates a few/couple times a year (depending on year it seems).

You can be PR0 and rank #1.

PS: Read this site for more info.

[Chris]

Keyword difficulty is also a difficult concept for some people to understand.

Sometimes naming your site with certain keywords, less than popular or competitive keywords, is all you need to do to ensure #1 rankings on those keywords from day 1.

[Chris]

Keyword difficulty is also a difficult concept for some people to understand.

Sometimes naming your site with certain keywords, less than popular or competitive keywords, is all you need to do to ensure #1 rankings on those keywords from day 1.

[cooluks]

If you want use long tail keyphrases which are competitive and then that would be the starting way to start...