How can this kind of site possibly rank #1?

PR0, 1 page, under construction, zero backlinks on G or Y!

[sett]

I want to know that a site i.e.

- Under construction
- Only 1 page (Home page) is indexed in both Google and Yahoo.
- No back links neither in Google nor in Yahoo.
- No total links in Google.
- 0 PR

is appearing in top 50 results of Google for its primary keyword. Here I want to mention that URL of site contains its primary keyword.

Suppose it's primary keyword is "xyz" and its URL is "http://xyz.net".So I want to ask containing primary keywords in URL is enough to appearing in top SERPs (without back links and with only 1 indexed ) page.

[tedster]

How about any 301 redirects to the domain? History on archive.org?

[arran]

Look at the cached copy.

Also, how competitive is the keyword?

arran.

[annej]

I've seen exactly the same thing before. Obviously new, no inbound links, 1 page, underconstruction.

Not a huge money word but one that has tons of more logical results.

One of the mysteries of Google.

[treeline]

Suppose it's primary keyword is "xyz" and its URL is "http://xyz.net"

I see a bunch of sites like this, some not updated since 1995.

Google has a real weakness for the xyz.com domain when a search is exactly for xyz.

[selomelo]

A dormant site of mine (just 1 page, no BL) ranks well in Yahoo but not in Google or MSN. It fluctuates between #12 - #30 in Yahoo. In fact, it outperforms many well-established sites with hundreds of backlinks and a Yahoo Directory entry. Competition: 200 million results in Yahoo, 1.1 billion results in Google

Again, another dormant (1 page, 1 BL) site of mine ranks well in Yahoo, and not in Google or MSN. It ranks at #14 in Yahoo. Competition: 1.7 million in Y, 6-8 million in G.

Both sites have some relevant "content," a relevant title, and both domain names contain keywords.

Based on these personal observations, I believe that Yahoo places much weight on on-page factors.

[sett]

Thanks for your replies

Look at the cached copy.
Also, how competitive is the keyword?

- Not in Google cache
- Comptetion on that keywords (xyz) in Google is 2,440,000
- When I checked keyword's number of counts in #*$! It was 0.

I have a site wich is not indexed in Google yet (about 2 months old), having very good content pages (orignal content not duplicate).It is already indexed in both Yahoo and MSN and performing well on my primary keywords.Can any one tell me what is wrong with my site and what should I do?

[londrum]

i saw an article that highlighted a page ranking something like 4 or 5 in google for the word "laptop", even though it didn't contain a single mention of that word.
the writers suggested that there must have been hundreds of links pointing TO the page that contained the word laptop.

that might have something to do with it perhaps.

[treeline]

Odds are these sites have a LOT of backlinks. A photo with no text on the page at all can rank if it has good backlinks ("off page factors").

Someone optimizing for webdesign may have used a TON of sneaky off page factors.

Try Yahoo's Site Explorer to get an idea of backlinks to a site or page. Google's search for backlinks deliberately returns incomplete results to thwart these SEO efforts. Try it at:

[siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com...]

[stef25]

nice site that yahoo siteexplorer. thousands of incoming links

still, this must be v competitive and with all this content is king stuff im amazed

[bcolflesh]

Good link treeline - I don't know why I never saw that before...

[treeline]

Good content attracts good backlinks.

[londrum]

imagine a situation where a business wants to start promoting a product in... august.
what are they to do?
they can't just let the page loose in august, as it will take a couple of months at least to gain a decent ranking.
...but they might not be able to promote the product before august.

so they could do something like what we're seeing - put up a page with nothing much on it and get a load of links pointing to it so it moves up the rankings, and then just fill it up with content on product launch day.