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?

Today’s Progress

Went shopping with my girlfriend yesterday and she bought an item of clothing I had not seen before.  This gave me an idea for a niche so I checked the search amount on Google which was 4,400, so far so good, then checked if the domain was available.  The .co.uk was gone but was not being used so I took the .org.uk

Today I installed WordPress which I will be using for this site (#18) and added an Easy Content Unit which I have put in the first post which I will make sticky so it is the first thing users see when they land on the site.  All other posts will be positioned beneath.  The ECU has about 20 items ranging from £5 to £80 from three merchants.

Each post I add will be based around a single product and hopefully it will get indexed within the next few days.

This is an item of clothing that is suited for the summer and this will be the first summer they have been in UK high street stores as far as I can tell.  I’m guessing it will probably be the last too!

Also done a couple of blog posts today but nothing major.  My girlfriend is away for two weeks from Saturday so I will be making up for lost time and getting my existing sites up to scratch whilst she is away.

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.