How hard is it to out rank a site like this

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canucksfan19

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Stats - PR 4
Aged domain - registered in 2000
backlinks- yahoo shows 300
64,300 competing pages

i can get an exact match domain with the related .uk or w/e

what you guys think?
 


Shouldn't be impossible. The domain age is the main thing working against you. Start getting to it and even if you get to number 2, you'll be doing well. What's your SEO plan?
 
thanks - was thinking a wordpress theme related to it, start writing content ( get it written) do some web 2.0 and blast them with some backlinks ( have 2.0 pointing to my site) some directories, and see what happens...
 
Kind of a noob question but I just bought a domain that had previously been registered for a 4 year period in the late 90s... Would it be considered aged? is the fact it was registered years ago beneficial? Just curious.
 
bizzykehl said:
Kind of a noob question but I just bought a domain that had previously been registered for a 4 year period in the late 90s... Would it be considered aged? is the fact it was registered years ago beneficial? Just curious.
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Sorry, man. If it was dropped for any length of time then it's back to square one.
 
canucksfan19 said:
thanks - was thinking a wordpress theme related to it, start writing content ( get it written) do some web 2.0 and blast them with some backlinks ( have 2.0 pointing to my site) some directories, and see what happens...
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If you do some web 2.0 you're set and you'll be #1 in the SERPs in a week, two weeks tops.
 
Exact match domain ending in .com are killing it in the serps nowadays. Or is that just me with too many martinis on a Friday evening after the missus has put the kiddies to bed?

Like is that what the Mayday update was about? "We can't figure this out anymore so if you have a exact match domain to the search query, you win!!"
 
canucksfan19 said:
Stats - PR 4
Aged domain - registered in 2000
backlinks- yahoo shows 300
64,300 competing pages

i can get an exact match domain with the related .uk or w/e

what you guys think?
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It really depends on what your time frame is and how hard you stick with seo'ing during that time. The exact match domain is the best thing you'll have going for you so if you get the domain, have semi frequent content, spend $150 - 200 a month on link building services and get a few .edu / .gov links, in 6 - 12 months you'll have a shot at outranking the top site.

Like someone else said though, even if you come in 2nd you can write a better meta description and try to compete for their clicks.

Either way if the exact match domain is out there you might as well get it.
 
Buy the aged domain name, pay for red_virus' directory submission, an xRumer blast, and you shouldn't have any problems ranking well for that keyword.
 
OP mentioned an exact match .uk. Wouldn't that make it a lot harder to rank except in UK? Like if the site was partyfavours.co.uk (for phrase party favours), then yeah, but if it was "party favors" and the domain was exact match .uk wouldn't it pretty much be an uphill battle on getting something like that ranked globally or at least in the US?
 
Dare Devil said:
Sorry, man. If it was dropped for any length of time then it's back to square one.
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Not true. I've purchased expired domains at auctions and they kept their rankings and PR.

But if it has been expired for awhile (Google catches it) then yes it will be viewed as a new site/domain.
 
canucksfan19 said:
Stats - PR 4
Aged domain - registered in 2000
backlinks- yahoo shows 300
64,300 competing pages

i can get an exact match domain with the related .uk or w/e

what you guys think?
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Are you trying for US results or UK? If US, don't bother getting the .UK
 
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