Experiment: Facebook Page vs Branded Domain
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This is a followup to a Q&A posted by fideaux64 taking it from speculative to practical level.
Question: Can a popular social profile page outrank an exact match branded domain.
- Domain: http://erasethethought.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Erase-The-Thought/111096868913182
- Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/erase_the_thought
Results: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=erase%20the%20thought
This experiment is currently in progress. You're welcome to comment and participate.
Note: Please do not link to the main domain - only Facebook or Myspace.
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What about using another TLD but exact match and the 'Use Facebook as my website' feature? Depends what you're testing for really.
I'm pretty sure that when I registered a new domain and set up a FB page on the same day the FB page outranked it, but after a few days the site was on top so if there's any links between the site and the social pages (and back again) I presume Google can actually figure it out.
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