SEO Question For The Day???

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A friend of mine asked me if he updated a website for a friend would he loss his rankings? I asked him what is he ranking for? He told me to Google ( miami office cleaners ) I did and asked if his friends site is miamiofficecleaners.com

He said Yes that's it. I looked over the site and was amazed at what I saw. It is a PR0, only 4 indexed pages, has next to no backlinks and horrible SEO not to mention it looks like crap.

I told my friend in my opinion, if he messes with the site it will loss it's rank, because it will get crawled and drop.

Here is my questions for all you SEO'ers!!!

How on in the great SEO world is this site #1 on page 1?
#day #question #seo
  • Profile picture of the author salty dogma
    It's a no-competition kw phrase. That's the beauty of good local kw research - Google says there's no competition (not entirely accurate) but that means everyone else overlooks this term. My question would be what type of update is he considering? If he keeps his text, or at least that kw phrase, in his updates then it won't affect his ranking. Actually, he has decent seo for that particular phrase. If he's going with a complete update, he might want to build a couple of new backlinks but that could be something as simple as a couple of good web 2.0s or profile links.
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  • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
    Exact match domain, with 5 years of aging to it. Hardly any traffic to it since it is extremely low competition phrase. He's ranking for it because nobody else is trying. If he wants to rank for commercial cleaning, cleaning service, office cleaning in miami, etc. he won't be able to.

    To give an example... check this thread in a day or two....

    Search for the phrase: Warrior Special Offer Office Cleaning

    Since Warrior Special Offer Office Cleaning is obviously a low competition keyword, and no one wants to rank for it.... it will definitely be ranking. It will rank simply because I have the keywords in the post, it would definitely rank if you had it in the title since the topic title generates a url with the keywords of the topic on this forum.

    Anyway.... you can rank easily for low competition keywords, but at this day and age of SEO, there's usually a reason why something is low competition.
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    • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
      Originally Posted by iAmNameLess View Post

      Exact match domain, with 5 years of aging to it. Hardly any traffic to it since it is extremely low competition phrase. He's ranking for it because nobody else is trying. If he wants to rank for commercial cleaning, cleaning service, office cleaning in miami, etc. he won't be able to.

      To give an example... check this thread in a day or two....

      Search for the phrase: Warrior Special Offer Office Cleaning

      Since Warrior Special Offer Office Cleaning is obviously a low competition keyword, and no one wants to rank for it.... it will definitely be ranking. It will rank simply because I have the keywords in the post, it would definitely rank if you had it in the title since the topic title generates a url with the keywords of the topic on this forum.

      Anyway.... you can rank easily for low competition keywords, but at this day and age of SEO, there's usually a reason why something is low competition.
      Already ranking #1 in less than an hour... lol....perfect way to start off a WSO.
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  • Profile picture of the author sconlinemarketing
    Already ranking #1 in less than an hour... lol....perfect way to start off a WSO. I know right, lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew S
    Originally Posted by sconlinemarketing View Post

    He said Yes that's it. I looked over the site and was amazed at what I saw. It is a PR0, only 4 indexed pages, has next to no backlinks and horrible SEO not to mention it looks like crap.
    Local SEO is pretty easy considering a lot of the competition is like this.

    He could rank for a lot more in his space if he tried.
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  • I think lately that the "Un-SEOd" sites like this one have no obvious SEO agency footprint. With all the Penguin and Panda hype, seems like any site that has a clean slate backlink wise and no over agressive, unnatural looking backlink anchor text profile has a fair shot at page 1. Content marketing by setting up a blog with 500 - 1,000 word articles targeting one local keyword each would be a logical direction to take this site.
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