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I have a doubt and would like to hear your thoughts or personal experience.
I have a populated site joined to the Adsense program. Lots of visitors and incomes increasing every year. Last month it showed up in Google's results a site with the same name as mine rank in the third place (1st - mysite.com 3rd. mysite.org). I entered the site and find out it was a no content site full with adsense advertising. I informed Google and they replied they will investigate. But this got me into doubts:
- How is it posible Google ranked in a third place a no content site?
- How is it possible Google accepted the account?
Thanks a lot for your thoughts!
The domain is probably parked like this.
Why it's in your top search results is truly strange though...
Last month it showed up in Google's results
Yes, but for which keyword?
if it's a strong keyword ... it's strange
if it's for the domain mane itself ... don't care!
Anyway, it is always better to concentrate on the content of your sites. Don't waste your time with the sites of others.
It's worth looking at rivals to see what you can learn from them, but there's never any advantage in spending too much time. That will only help them!
.com always ranked higher than .org, .net ranked higher than .org but lower than .com, and .info ranked the lowest.
There definitely is a correlation between extension and ranking, but I don't know what causes what. It might be very well that a .com tends to be an older and more stablished site than - to make an extreme example - a .info
On the same note, ccTLDs tend to perform even better than .coms when searched through google.ccTLD
For example, I have a ypn.ccTLD that ranks #2 for "ypn" in that ccTLD Google: it sometimes briefly goes to #1 (pushing publisher.yahoo.com to #2!)
It's a shame ypn is not (yet?) active in that country.
