I have seen that the first 3 positions ranking for v7ndotcom elursrebmem is domains containing the exact key phrase. This is another indication that the 3 phase theory in my last post has some viability. It seems that the first dataset for a new key phrase is more or less raw data.
What will be interesting to see is how it will change over time.
Thanks John for this wonderful contest. It gives so much interesting data regarding what is going on under the hood of Google’s search engine.
But, on a side note: Would I ever work with a key phrase based sitename? No way! How can you build confidence and credability for a site named v7ndotcom-elursrebmem-some-other-keywords.com?
I realy appreciate your efforts for v7ndotcom elursrebmem contest.
I am also particpating in the contest with http://www.howseoworks.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem.
it would be a great fun.!”So Let The Race Begin”
Basicus, did you see my post on the “exact keyword” issue?
http://www.internet-marketing-blog.com/2006/03/10/parsing-keywords-in-urls/