Make it to the first Google result

talklyx1

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My site talkly.co doesn't show up on Google when I type in Talkly but it comes up when I type in talkly.co


Any ideas on how to make it show up for both?
 

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Sure. All you need to do is become more popular and trustworthy than github, a Twitter user with a metric craptonne of followers, cheap Chinese toy walky-talkies, YouTube "cute baby" videos, a talk page about the LY country code top level domain on Wikipedia, etc., etc. Oh, and you should probably expect to find a talk.ly Silicon Valley startup popping up every once in a while as well. (It'll die, like most do, but when the year is up and the domain becomes available again, someone else will give it a try.)

In other words, you've picked something that's pretty common, and the chances of you becoming the go-to site for the keyword "talkly" are very, very slim. And if you use any of the usual SEO tricks to climb the rankings inorganically, you will be hit with a page penalty. Like RapGenius, which got a "-30" -- that is, they would show up 30 pages later in the rankings than normal -- for soliciting links. It took a lot of work for them to fix it, and they pretty much disappeared from the Googles for a couple of weeks. And that was for a site that normally ranked #1 or #2 for any given lyric search.
 

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Then use that account to crank up your domain. Your website alone won't do it, you need to leverage all of the tools you have at your disposal.
 

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Are you referring to my @talkly account? Because that's in the first couple results
 

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Yes. If that's rating high, you just might want to consider linking to your site every few tweets for starters.
 
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