Is Google that important for my business to be successful online? I only read articles about how online businesses depend so much on Google for their own sake. I wonder if there’s a way to avoid this search Engine and still be successful.

Umm yes, no one "needs" google, and i do beleive if you're relying on someone else such as google to deliver all your sales, then you're leaving yourself setup for a large disaster

Social networks, classified ads, articles etc. are the same as google-the same that they could give you traffic. traffic you need to increase your sales. since its the best SE out there, of course many would want to grab some nice SERP to get some nice targeted traffic

See, if you look under the OPs name and you find the word Banned....



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