My SEO Experiment - 7 cool results
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In this brief post I'd like to share with you some of the findings I've made when it comes to search engine optimization. I hope you'll find some use in the results I'm about to share
Basis
I think I should first tell you where my conclusions are drawn from.
I've bought 18 domains in a quite long tail niche (4000-6000 exact searches / month for each keyword).
For each keyword I've bought the .com, .net and .org where they were still available (exact match domains - keyword.com,keyword.net,keyword.org).
This happened only 3 weeks ago, so after the Google famous anti-farm change.
I would like to make it as clear as possible that all conclusions are based on actual facts and not my personal opinions, however I won't share the URLs of my websites.
Results
1. Exact match domain names have a huge advantage over the competition. Almost all websites (17 out of 18) got indexed in less than 2 days and ranked on places varying from 18 to 68 without any links or content on, just Wordpress installed.
2. If you're using Wordpress, the Google XML Sitemaps plugin is a must-install. I'm not sure what makes this plugin so special, but Google seems to love it, at least when it comes to indexing.
3. If your website disappeared from the search results delete the any content you might think it's not original enough and it will rank again. I intentionally used some copied articles on 3 of the websites. They all disappeared from Google. On 2 of them I've deleted the duplicate article. The reappeared and even quite high in the rankings (positions 27 and 34). The one which still had the copied article was still nowhere to be found.
4. .com = .net = .org When it comes to the SERPs, all these 3 do equally well. Same link building, same kind of content, keyword1.net was in position 14, keyword1.com on 15, keyword1.org on 16. For another keyword, all 3 sites very similar, keyword2.com on 19, keyword2.org on 20, keyword2.net on 21. so if you find a great keyword and either .com. .net or .org are available take it! (p.s. I have some other sites ranking on Google.co.uk - co.uk and org.uk are both doing equally well, just better than .com)
5. 10 do follow high PR profile links > 7000 nofollow/follow mixed links
I've outsourced backlinking for some of the websites and got a combination of edu and gov + a lot of blog comments + a lot of profile automated links. For some other sites I just researched my competition and found that very often the sites ranking first had only 30-40 profile backlinks from various high profile sites. I build the links manually (about 10-20 for each site) and their rankings improved a lot!
Here are some numbers:
Initial position -> position after getting the 10-20 high quality links
58 -> 9
68-> 28
38 -> 11
38 -> 4&5
40 -> 21
39 -> 15
24 -> 6
[...]
and the SERPs continue to improve even to this moment
So I guess the conclusion would be - Work less but focus on the right things. See what works for your competition and channel on that, it will surely work for you too. To outrank your competition just do exactly what they did + what some other great competitor did.
6. I've bought some WSO which recommends among other things to get your links by submitting articles with your links to private blog networks. Private blog networks suck! Maybe they used to work, but now Google just took my sites out of the results (the 3 ones for which I've tried private blog networks). So don't try mass links which have nothing to do with your niche.
7. Link out to an important wiki related to your niche. The ranking of my websites which link to some important resource in the domain (Wikipedia for example) is significantly higher than of the ones which don't link out to authority websites.
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That's all for now but I'll definitely have a lot more results as I'll try out some more things and see what works and what not.
To your success,
Traian
P.S. Waiting for your comments and ready to answer any questions you might have!
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