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Ranking a 2 months old domain

by Nattsurfaren
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I have an internet marketing forum that has been alive for over 2 months now. It is a 2 word .com domain and the words in the domain have no competition or monthly searches according to google keyword suggestion tool.
The funny thing is when i type the domain in to separate words without .com it doesn't show up on the first page. In fact last I checked it was about 4-5 pages down. Not even if I type the words together will I be the first in google.
I have not done any backlink promotion other than links from youtube to my forum.
I have about 92 results in google with "domain.com".
I thought that a no competition exact match domain was very easy to rank?
#domain #months #ranking
  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Originally Posted by Nattsurfaren View Post

    I have an internet marketing forum that has been alive for over 2 months now. It is a 2 word .com domain and the words in the domain have no competition or monthly searches according to google keyword suggestion tool.
    The funny thing is when i type the domain in to separate words without .com it doesn't show up on the first page. In fact last I checked it was about 4-5 pages down. Not even if I type the words together will I be the first in google.
    I have not done any backlink promotion other than links from youtube to my forum.
    I have about 92 results in google with "domain.com".
    I thought that a no competition exact match domain was very easy to rank?
    I think you might have got the wrong idea, when people say "easy". Easy means less work, but then again, "easy" is also subjective to who is doing the work.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    For a forum, content is very important thing, try developing content in your forum and it would start pickup... there is no doubt to it..You can promote your forum in other related forums via signature links as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author Nattsurfaren
      Originally Posted by Hansons View Post

      For a forum, content is very important thing, try developing content in your forum and it would start pickup... there is no doubt to it..You can promote your forum in other related forums via signature links as well.
      I don't think content is any problem:
      1480 Posts in 212 Topics by 135 Members

      What would be the minimum work requirement to rise above this threshold?
      I mean I'm looking into ranking exact match domains with low comp high traffic keywords but I think I would fail if it was several months waiting time and a lot of necessary backlinking to do because I'm not an expert in this field and for that reason I wanted to try a simple method in the first place.

      Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
    Yet another person who thinks that the Google AdWords tool tells you how much competition a search query has.. For the last time this year, the Google AdWords tool tells you how many advertisers are bidding on that query. It has NOTHING to do with the search results, apart from the estimated traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author Nattsurfaren
      Originally Posted by Icematikx View Post

      Yet another person who thinks that the Google AdWords tool tells you how much competition a search query has.. For the last time this year, the Google AdWords tool tells you how many advertisers are bidding on that query. It has NOTHING to do with the search results, apart from the estimated traffic.
      Sorry if I made you connect it like that but it wasn't my intention to imply that you see the organic search results competition status in the google adword keyword tool. I know you need to look in the organic search result hit counts to find that out.
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