Just curious. www.footballticketprices.co.uk for football ticket prices query. PR 1, SEO Score: 73% (according to whois), no good links, no working inner URLs, nothing. Last update 06 Feb 2007. A really popular query and many competitors. Many could do better than that guy, it seems to me. Is that because of the domain name? Does it really mean so much? And that's its a home page? Well, is it enough? Thank you for your suggestions.
yes domain name pay very vital role in google ranking, and may be this website got very seo friendly content or got some quality link... lot of other factors .
www.footballticketprices.co.uk site is probably quite suitable for "football ticket prices" serach query. Yes, it is a domain name, partially. What is important here: The TITLE of this site is also: football ticket prices. Google was obviously impressed with this match. Ever heard of red bananas? Red bananas in the title and in the domain did the job for red bananas site's owner: http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=sl&q=red+bananas
the title tag is a perfect match for the exact phrase. no other website has this. it's that simple, when combined with the fact that there's no major down-sides, like lack of unique content on the page, or very bad coding. there's just no competition.
Probably because of this http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=allinanchor:football+ticket+prices&btnG=Google+Search The have the most links pointing to them with 'football ticket prices' in the anchor text
Actually, it doesnt look that competitive a search term. Not that many people search on it, so not that many people are going for it. I'm sure if it was more competitive, they wouldnt get a look in. But still, some people are searching on it. Would be interesting to know how many visitors they are getting.
I assume it would be great to see keywords like this where you can easily be the first. I usually have problems with that.
it's really not hard to get top in google for medium-competitivity stuff if your site is named exactly right and title tags and headings are also perfect, and coding is efficient and content is longgggggggggggggggggggggggggg
for medium competitivity search terms there's little competition in terms of exact title and heading matches on keyword-rich, unique-content-rich pages; so PR / inlink power is rarely relevant.
Sorry was in a rush In this case it's because the site has the most links pointing to it with the keyword in the anchor http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=allinanchor:football+ticket+prices&btnG=Google+Search and http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=inanchor:football+ticket+prices&btnG=Search If a site is ranked higher when other sites have more links it's usually because of it's domain strength, like Wikipedia, CNN, BBC or Google
true, but i think in this case the site would still be top because of its title tag and page content even without any links
Keywords on URL and Title really helps in improving rankings. Using targeted keywords as anchor text also helps.
that site have not more than 50 backlinks, here the title and domain name did the magic, from my experiance its very hard to retain that position long.