Is it possible to rank just a domain name or something that will redirect to a website

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Is their a way i can rank something for a keyword and once it is clicked get them redirected to my site. I'm assuming that what i want to rank would have no content, maybe just a domain name.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Why would Google rank something that has no content and just tries to screw the user?
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    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      Originally Posted by OfficerIM View Post

      Is their a way i can rank something for a keyword and once it is clicked get them redirected to my site. I'm assuming that what i want to rank would have no content, maybe just a domain name.
      More to the point.

      If you have the ability to rank Page A for a keyword.
      Only to then redirect it to Page B.

      Why not just rank Page B for the keyword.

      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      Why would Google rank something that has no content and just tries to screw the user?
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire View Post

        More to the point.

        If you have the ability to rank Page A for a keyword.
        Only to then redirect it to Page B.

        Why not just rank Page B for the keyword.
        Probably for typical content cloaking reasons.

        Like auto generated sites that you can't put Adsense ads on.
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        • Profile picture of the author atomAnt
          No.
          (even if you figured out a "loophole" to accomplish this, Google would quickly find it, burying your domain in quicksand, never to be seen again)


          edit: The closest you can come to this is by using expired domains that get a lot of visitors. You are inheriting the traffic with the domain. They can be redirected to wherever you want, funneling targeted traffic. Your question has to do with "ranking" a domain without any content, so it's not the same thing. But it's along the same line of thinking.
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          • Profile picture of the author IMmonkey
            that's a million dollar question and the answer is yes like the post above said, it's cloaking.

            don't tell anyone though, shhhhhhhh, cloaking still works
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