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I have studied the black art of SEO and apply all my knowledge of this to every website I create.
The issue I have, is every new site, once indexed performs very poorly for any semi competitive keywords. No matter how strong the backlinks are, how good the seo is or how content rich the site is... There is just no way to get to the top with a fresh domain.
Now, I do have a very old domain, which has been indexed in google for 4+ years. I can change the content of this ENTIRELY to suit my latest project almost as a seo'ed portal system, just 1 page in size and upload. 36 hours later it will be ranked #1-5 for that search term and stay there! The strange thing is, it still ranks very well for the previous search terms, although the URL now hosts nothing on that topic!
That URL seems to have almost developed an authoritative status, and no matter what I chuck at it, it generates shed loads of traffic for me! It has just 1 pr 3 back link which I use to keep it crawled. It is not listed in DMOZ or indeed anywhere else.
The URL is of a sub domain type, from my old dial up ISP going back 10 years ago. The ISP has since folded but the ftp access has never stopped.
Anyone else share this experience with google?
It sure gives me the idea that age develops immunities form the google algo....
The traffic rank in alexa is very high, but of course the URL is of the sub domain type, so alexa takes the rank from the highest level which is the ISP's domain.
I just wish I had more URL's like this!
