Taking top 2 or even 10 slots on page 1?

This is actually very common and many of us aim to get the top 2 spots for all of our keywords. My partner Terry Kyle actually discussed this quite a bit in his massive 60 day experiment thread in this forum.

Note though that they don't have to be on different domains, and in fact you generally don't want them to be on separate domains. The reason is that if 2 pages on the same domain both rank on a single page of Google's search results, the lower ranking of the two pages gets an indented listing right behind the higher ranking page.

So, if you have the #1 listing, if you got a second page on that domain to #10, that second page would actually be listed at #2 in google as you get an indented listing for it.

Now, if you tried to rank a page on a second domain, you would actually have to get that page up to #2 in order to rank at #2.

Here is an example of an indented listing for squidoo (#2 and #3).

Google

The page ranking #3 could actually be valued by Google at anywhere from #3 to #10 ( you don't know), but gets boosted up to #3 as an indented listing behind the #2 page.

Now, Google actually recently made an announced change that will allow more than 2 pages from the same domain occurring on a single search result page.

Tom

Actually you don't have to get a 2nd page on the same domain to #10 for it to show up as an indent to an existing #1 ranked URL on the same domain. A second page that would have ranked 30th or 40th for that targeted keyword phrase in the SERPs could be shown as the #2 indented listing for your #1 URL. This happens VERY frequently for sites who implement Theme Pyramids as their site architecture.