Lots of Misdirections About First Page Ranking

There has been a rank craze in the past decade or so among online businesses as a result of marketing companies dumping complete nonsense into the brains of business owners. How many times have you heard the following: "if you are not on first page of Google, you do not exist", and so first page ranking has become the holy grail of running (the online part of) a business. This myth has become so bad that numerous statistics have been produced to emphasize not only the importance of first page ranking but the importance of what position you are on...social media