Google URL Searches
September 2nd, 2006 by Michael Gray in Grayhat SEO, SEOIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
I’m not sure if Google is crazy stupid or crazy like a fox with the way they handle the searches for www.example.com but I see it as an incredible opportunity …
For example let’s look at [www.coke.com] if I were Pepsi, RC Cola or any other soft drink manufacturer getting my domain to list for a search for www.coke.com would be smokin’ ! Things like this are like free handouts if you’re going to offer reputation management services. Now to get to work at starting to crack the code …
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September 2nd, 2006 at 12:18 pm
After getting a domain booted and taking a screenshot I now rank near the top for the screenshot I took of a domain search. I don’t even have many external links to that page, but it shows near the top of SERP probably due to the title/h1/url presence of the term.
Granted it’s not the www version of the domain which is probably less important and less competitive, but ranking for the domain wasn’t something I was aiming to do - just happened.
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Wouldn’t you expect http://www.coke.com to return results for http://www.coke.com though? Maybe I missed the point of your post…
September 2nd, 2006 at 1:08 pm
yes I would but what if somewhere in the top 10 was a title that said something like “Widget Cola a Healthy Alternative to Regular Soft Drinks” do you think they’d get clicks …
September 2nd, 2006 at 1:45 pm
That’s a good point, I’d definitely pickup on that ish
September 4th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Michael this is the thrid or fourth time I have nipped over to your blog and one of your posts has cancelled my plans for the day….. im off to erm… experiment
Thanks for a great post as usual