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Hey Guys,

I was wondering if you've seen or practiced some effective ways to take up real estate in the SERPS.  Ideally I'd like to see more results from my own domain although I realize that G seems to only display 3 for any single domain.  I'm looking for creative ways to take up more real estate other than subdomains.

I recently saw a municipal website with 4 results (1 being a PDF) which suprised me.

I have a couple in my head but what's worked best for you?

Thanks for sharing that charles!

Although I just checked it out and this phrase "is kevjumba a heterosexual bear wrestler" seemed to have went viral, appearing on titles of tons of different domains.

I don't really appreciate the condescending talk but it's 59% and 55%.  Understand, I'm not an SEO by trade and its really a small part of my daily duties.

I'm not sure exactly why, but google started "suggesting" me after I participated heavily in yahoo answers.  No other SEO practices were attempted.

Perhaps its the wide range of IP addresses typing in your brand.

Update:

For some reason this just popped in my head, but my search suggest seems to be equal if not stronger with Yahoo and Bing even though I've had less than 5 queries+Click throughs of my brand in the past year on either of them

I decided to edit the question since Barry raises a good point.  I only wanted to bring something to the light and didn't intend on "calling" anyone out- my apoligies if it came off like that.  I only wanted to explain that I've done some due dilligence on this website and have found very little reason for this website to be ranking for high traffic keywords (yes personalized search is off..).  In his backlink profile there are around 8 local directories listed, and then about 1200 forum spammed post with some weird anchor text not at all related to our niche ("cheap viagra" "cheap auto insurance").  His website isn't alone, it's listed among 30-50 other websites on each post.  These forums are often in foreign languages so that just seemed really odd.  Majestic SEO shows these links started aroun 2008 and continued through 2009.

Hey guys,

I'm not too sure if I'm over-thinking this, but I've seen no-follow being used with SEOmoz and I'm looking to implement this  myself.  Most of my links point to my root domain (yes I'm working on building links to deep pages) so would it make sense to 'limit' or 'no-follow' links on my root domain so that only the most important pages are being passed link juice?

Thanks

Hey guys,

First of all, a big thanks to SEOmoz and the community.  I've been an avid reader for about a year now and have seen some great improvements.

I'm always focusing my efforts on strategies that work well for my niche.  Although I've come accross one of my competitors that doesn't seem to have much going for him, although he ranks very well.  His root domain is ****E and the URL where (seemingly) spammed links point to is ***.  If you do a site: command he has 1000+ pages although most consist of "events calendar" (empty).  Also, I ran some of his content through copyscape and there seems to be multiple versions of it throughout the web.

After all this, he ranks very well for money keywords in our niche, although his on-page is horrible so there are many opporunities I've capitalized on.

Is there something I'm missing?  I'm trying to find the value in his website but its not very clear to me since his backlink profile is (seemingly) junk and his on-page goes against all I was told to implement.