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I have a site which I've spent a long while to rank well in a fairly competitive market.
I've been inspired by your posts and have considered cloaking.
To my understanding I'll be using a secondary domain to rank and then redirect all traffic to my main domain.
My questions are as follow:
1. Considering highly competitive terms will take more than just a copy to rank, what keywords would I cloak for? Would I use it to rank under the less competitive keywords?
2. People keep on mentioning shadow domains as disposable. Considering Google's sandbox, no domain is really "disposable", so do you wait for these domains to get out of the sandbox?
Any comment will be greatly appreciated.
I'll tackle the second question:
2. People keep on mentioning shadow domains as disposable. Considering Google's sandbox, no domain is really "disposable", so do you wait for these domains to get out of the sandbox?
See the thread at [webmasterworld.com...] for ways to beat the "sandbox penalty". The quality of this thread is excellent.
While I am very new to WebmasterWorld and am not subscribed at the moment, I am still in the process of assessing the information posted and the value of it to me in particular.
I am not fully familiar with this forum's rules, but is there a way you can recap what's in that post?
Thanks in advance,
And that leads to my "Beat the sandbox best practices":1) Build links slowly, especially in the first couple of months.
2) Vary my anchor text heavily
3) Make sure to get some deep links.
4) Avoid the spammy SEO directories. You know which ones I mean
5) Try hard for that DMOZ link, or failing that, a .gov or .edu
6) Get links from topically related sites (especially a few that are already ranking well)
