How to beat Geocities...

Problem with free domains

[trillianjedi]

There are two seperate geocities sites above us in the SERPS.

I'm trying to think of a way to jump over them. I think the problem is these two sites are counting together as one in the SE's due to the fact that they both run off the same parent (geocities) domain.

Anyone have any thoughts? I don't need to do anything for a while - I want to see what happens when a few more of our backlinks take effect, as that may do the trick.

But I'd be interested if anyone else has noticed the cumulative value effect of a parent domain like this.

TJ

[Imaster]

TJ,

I'm trying to think of a way to jump over them. I think the problem is these two sites are counting together as one in the SE's due to the fact that they both run off the same parent (geocities) domain.

I wouldn't say that there is much advantage in being under a very popular free hosting geocities. There could be external links pointing to those 2 geo sites and I would bet you would go up once your backlinks take effect during the next PR update, which I am anxiously waiting for to happen :)

[Iguana]

Geocities sites get no special treatment because of their yahoo address - but I hadn't realised that they would join together in the search results. So the true position of Geocities site2 may be 9 but it gets indented with Geocities site1 at position 1.

The other side of the coin is that with Geocities sites a position 1, 2 & 3 would Google indent the second and just not show the third site in the SERPS.

[trillianjedi]

So the true position of Geocities site2 may be 9 but it gets indented with Geocities site1 at position 1.

Thats exactly the problem. I would have thought that google would have logged geocities as a free host domain - they've been around long enough?

IMaster,

I won't do anything until the latest PR results start to show as we have links from dmoz etc which have not appeared yet and I expect to next time. And a few others. I think our PR will jump a notch up, that may be enough to catapult us over these guys.

TJ

[Imaster]

You are right TJ. With the next update your site should take a steep climb up the ladder :)

Good luck pal.

[Trisha]

I had that happen to me before. Luckily it wasn't for anything important. The top two sites were both Geocities sites, made by different people, but the second one was listed as an indented one under the other one. At least one had really old content also, which I think they may even have copied from somewhere else. I haven't followed up with it recently, since it's not anything real important. It was frustrating though.