How I Got Rich

My .org.uk Knocked Off Page 1 by .co.uk

My keyword domain site on a .org.uk domain had worked its way up to the top half of page one and had been there for a while.  It was getting a few hits a day and making a few sales a month.  Today I checked my stats as I do most days and noticed it was no longer on page but the .co.uk version of the domain was sitting at number two!

I’m pretty certain when I bought the domain that although the .co.uk was registered there was no site on it – otherwise I wouldn’t have tried to compete with it as its a bit cheeky to use the same domain as an existing site in a small niche.

From doing a site: in Google I can see it has about 150 pages against my 10 or so so I guess the better site has won.   For now…

To my untrained eye it does look like they are using some kind of feed to generate all the pages for the site.  This is something I would like to try myself but have no idea where to start.  Any ideas?

Site #13: .co.uk vs .org.uk, let battle commence!

From what I’ve read so far it is best to go for the .co.uk version of a domain you are after and if that is gone then try and get the .org.uk

I recently registered a domain for a niche landing site with the .co.uk extension.  I didn’t do anything with the site as I was working on some others but today I decided to instal WordPress on it and get a couple of posts up.  As I was doing this I discovered someone had registered the .org.uk version a few days after I had registered the .co.uk version and already had a niche landing page up and running.

I will still go ahead with this niche as I’ve paid for the domain so might as well use it and it will be interesting to see how the two pages rank head-to-head.  I might even contact the owner and see if they want to compare sales data to help me get a better idea of what converts and what doesnt regarding links to merchants on landing pages.