Comments on: FitnessGames(dot)us Strikes Gold – How I Got On The First Page Of Yahoo out of 314 MILLION results!

By: Google Likes You When You Keep it Fresh | Domain Shane

Google Likes You When You Keep it Fresh | Domain Shane — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:51:42 +0000

[...] frequent updating of the sites we already have. If you get your site to the top of Google like Domainvestors.tv, then you can layoff the tweaking and just keep updating the site to keep it relevant or perhaps [...]

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:08:37 +0000

Thanks Greg – dot us has always been very kind to us

By: PPC Ian

PPC Ian — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:35:47 +0000

Morgan,
What a great post – congratulations! I really like your excitement, it’s contagious! It’s really interesting to see you finding such success on Yahoo (and with a .us domain). Typically, Yahoo takes a bit longer than Google to rank in organically because they place such an emphasis on site history. It seems like you have found the secret sauce. It will be very interesting to watch the Yahoo/Microsoft partnership as it hopefully materializes and how it will affect organic search results (as of now, Bing is slated to power the organic and paid search results). Congrats again and thank you for sharing this awesome story!
Best,
Ian

By: Greg Slaughterbeck

Greg Slaughterbeck — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:46:18 +0000

I am very fond of the dot us extension and this encourages me to develop some of my stronger dot us names. Congrats on the traffic and revenue, may it continue at a faster pace!

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:05:46 +0000

Thanks Jamie! Excellent point and definitely adds to the food news

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:31:20 +0000

You also rank # 3 on Yahoo for just ~ fitness games ~ no quotes are nothing … which to me is even a better keyword. 498 Million results for that one!

Congrats!

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:30:17 +0000

Thanks @Chris – that is good advice. I usually do small tweaks as any big changes can definitely hurt the site. That being said after reading this article I think I’ll hold-off a few days so if the traffic does fall-off at least I’ll know it wasn’t my fault

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:29:19 +0000

Thanks @Ed – hope you enjoy the blog and thanks for the comment!

By: Chris Robbins

Chris Robbins — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:20:52 +0000

I wouldn’t tweak it too much. I just watched this video intervie over at mixergy.com (and if you haven’t watched all the videos there you should as they are endlessly informative and inpiring). This particular one called, “How A Kid Earned $2 Mil Before He Could Legally Drink – And The Shocking Way He Lost It – with Andrew Thompson” offers this warning:

“As the site got more “Google juice,” it got more traffic. Pretty soon he was up to about $200,000 in revenues. At 18, he was a millionaire. He bought a house. And a car. And another car. And a truck. And presents for girlfriend. And pretty soon the money was running low. But he didn’t worry because the revenue kept coming in.

Then one day he did something that seemed like the right move, but it made it all go away. He improved his site. He improved it so much that Google considered it a whole new site — and dropped him in the rankings. That’s when it all went away.”

Here’s the link (and sorry for the long comment): http://mixergy.com/andrew-thomspon/

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:52:58 +0000

Amazing! I’m just new to your blog and am finding a lot of interesting articles! I hope you do reach the ten of thousand mark soon.