Recently I watched a tv commercial for a new movie called bug. Curious I went to google and typed in Bug and found the domain www.bugthemovie.com was number 1 out of 163,000,000 results , even higher than wikipedia.org and insects.org Keep in mind this is almost an all Flash site. They do have Bug in the title tag. Since this is a new movie I found it interesting to trace how they could get such a high rank. They seem to be flying up the ranks getting a ton of blog buzz without getting stung for spamming. How would someone take a YouTube like video and use that to get the same link popularity as "bugs" the movie : ) Any interesting ideas?
It's not really a new site, the domain is PR6 Also if you do a allinanchor:bug it returns only 9 Million results. An allintitle:bug returns just 7 Million. So the competition isn't that strong, the 163 Million results are just pages with that word on the page and nothing more.
Not just industry, but industry authority sites, and every news station, theater, news paper, industry rag, magazine, movie reviewer, college website, movie blog, merchandising outlets, gossip websites and blogs, all of the people who worked on the movie probably have a link to it on their blogs, and online resumes. and on and on...that's a lot of fricken links!
The domain was probably purchased from another person based on the amount of domain transfers on it's history. I think this is a good example social networking in some respects. What I mean is that you get such grass roots linking form leading sites. Taking the same approach with some short feature films how someone would take advantage of this kind of grass roots proliferation. Not many industry segments have such a strong family of sites. Has anyone seen similar penetration in search results for youtube movies?