Re-visiting: How to get pages with no content to rank
Monday, November 26th, 2007If you have not already read it, this is a follow-up to my original post about trying to get pages with no content to rank. Check that out first…
I tried 2 products
1. Domain Name Ager
2. Domain Embarking
Neither of my test domains ranks well at all…
Fort Worth Divorces ranked for about a week as high as the 8th page, but has since fallen to like 18th for the totally non-competitive term Fort Worth Divorces, where no other website has those words in the URL or in the Title, much less both, I should be able to rank for this pretty easily in my opinion. The other domain I tried with no links is still sitting in Google purgatory and does not even rank for its name…
My other test North Las Vegas Condo is no better off, my finger got tired before I found it for the search term North Las Vegas Condo, although to be fair, I was getting an absolute ton of results for Las Vegas Condo which is probably fairly well optimized, but what do i know. (about SEO - nothing)
One of my other throw away domains (out of 3 total) - Lewisville Mortgages which I had used Domain Embarking for has surprised the heck out of me. By my searching it ranks 4th in Google for the term Lewisville Mortgages, it also is ranking 2nd page in Yahoo for that term and in Google for Lewisville Mortgage. This with almost zero effort. (3-5 minutes to setup the URL and point the DNS)
I have subsequently started the sales process for this domain and have been offered what I think is a nice payout for something that was worth nothing 3 weeks ago.
I have subsequently started embarking a few other domains to see how they do. I suspect that these ranking may be temporary, but for the effort involved I will take it. The pages are ugly as sin and good luck getting a click, but I was after ranking.
For those interested in ranking without unique content (or effort) I would suggest trying DomainEmbarking.com. No idea how this will do long term.
(yes these links are affiliates, sue me, I made almost $30 off the last post about this…that wont even buy me 1/2 the bottle of wine I was drinking while making this post…)
