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The Power of Keyword Rich Domains w/o Content :)

by Scott Million
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I think after you take a look at this you'll be on board for .com, .org, and .net exact match keyword domains, if you're not already.

I started buying domains ahead of time before my writers finish the content and host them, and just put up a privacy policy, contact, and pretty much blank home page with the keyword in the title while I'm waiting for my content.

Here's an Adsense/Amazon site that I put up with no content on it except what I put above:

Futon Lounger (futonlounger.net)

If you type that into Google you'll notice I'm #8 for "Futon Lounger" out of 6,390 competing websites when you search in quotes, about 12 million without quotes.

Now why would Google give a brand new site with pretty much nothing on it such a great rank? I've built no backlinks and put no content on that site other than a one sentence contact page, and a privacy policy duplicate content page taken from JenSense.

I've noticed this happening for quite a few of the sites I did this with two weeks ago.

Anyway, thought I'd share

Cheers,

Scott
#domains #keyword #power #rich
  • Profile picture of the author TTran
    Hey Scott nice example

    Sounds like some easy rankings for this one eh?
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Million
    Yes, my content for that comes in tomorrow, but I might just make that an amazon site since I just broke the terms of service for Adsense if I were to put it up.

    I have a couple other futon sites and the clicks are good for this niche . Amazon as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Barnes
    Sounds very interesting... Worth some more testing. I have also seen this on one of the google sniper optin videos. I believe it was VintageGuitar.org
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Million
      Originally Posted by Kevin Barnes View Post

      Sounds very interesting... Worth some more testing. I have also seen this on one of the google sniper optin videos. I believe it was VintageGuitar.org
      Yes, I do sniping, too, but with html and I build backlinks. Maybe I'd be at #1 with Wordpress ... I'll stick with my html, though
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  • Profile picture of the author jefferybaxter
    Yes Scott, when you have an exact phrase domain it gives you and extra boost amongst competition. Now, I've never experienced having that happen with no real content on the site. Anyways, this also works with having dashes too just incase anybody wants to know!
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Million
      Originally Posted by jefferybaxter View Post

      Yes Scott, when you have an exact phrase domain it gives you and extra boost amongst competition.
      Yes, I'm quite aware, but surprised at the results given no content. It's a nice test to see how much Google actually values exact match domains without variables such as links, LSI content, etc.

      Scott
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  • Profile picture of the author TTran
    Just curious, what adsense term of service did you break?
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Million
      Originally Posted by TTran View Post

      Just curious, what adsense term of service did you break?
      Good Q - maybe I'm not, I'll have to read through it again. Just paranoid as it's a major source of the income
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  • Profile picture of the author Mo Faisal
    Easy ranking...
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    it's a typical result.

    I had that happen with several similar sites but the rank doesn't last long if there is much competition in the top 10.
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  • Profile picture of the author Russell Hall
    Originally Posted by Scott Million View Post


    Futon Lounger (futonlounger.net)

    If you type that into Google you'll notice I'm #8 for "Futon Lounger" out of 6,390 competing websites when you search in quotes, about 12 million without quotes.

    Now why would Google give a brand new site with pretty much nothing on it such a great rank? I've built no backlinks and put no content on that site other than a one sentence contact page, and a privacy policy duplicate content page taken from JenSense.

    I've noticed this happening for quite a few of the sites I did this with two weeks ago.

    Anyway, thought I'd share

    Cheers,

    Scott
    Hey thanks for sharing this Scott,.. well done. It's very encouraging to see and especially considering you're just using html and not WordPress.
    I put up a site using similar methods (i.e. CB2/Google Sniper) in the very competitive "dog traing" niche (different keyword phrase) but got sandboxed. However, I continue putting new content in there which now inlcudes more and more Youtube embeds which surely the Big G won't be able to resist for too long?
    I'm beginning to really love this keyword rich domain concept and I'm having a lot of fun playing with Market Samurai and finding potential money spinners.
    Cheers, Russ
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  • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
    Screw You Man... You're No.2 In India! Incredible...

    Sumit.
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