Fascinated with this site's SEO...

[jr1228]

The site is Silver Price Today: 24 hour Silver Prices Today Spot Charts. (currently at Flippa)

It is almost an exact clone of Silver Price Today which sold for $11k back in May on Flippa. This new site skyrocketed to #1 for "silver price today" and "silver prices today" in that time frame, and also achieved PR4.

The new site has over 1,000 backlinks; pulling it up in MS shows a few high PR backlinks and then hundreds that look like some kind of link wheel (?), lots of articles and links from a few sites.

Just wondering if anyone has any insight on what this site did to get ranked so high...

[JamesGw]

Lol.

It must be the 30 times they bolded and repeated "Silver price today" because that's the best way to optimize your website.

They wouldn't last very long in a manual review situation.

Okay, I was being sarcastic. They have good keyword density, probably some freshness factor, and a fair amount of backlinks. The exact match title tag and EMD probably helps. They don't have strong competition with those qualities. To see how far it can get you scroll down and see silverpricetoday.org in the top 10. It has 7 backlinks according to Yahoo Site Explorer.

[jr1228]

Originally Posted by JamesGw

Lol.

It must be the 30 times they bolded and repeated "Silver price today" because that's the best way to optimize your website.

They wouldn't last very long in a manual review situation.

Hah, no kidding. Should be interesting how long the rankings stay after someone picks it up on Flippa! I'm sure someone will be misguided into paying big bucks for it.