Chaturbate Ranks #1 on Google
 

I submitted this article to xbiz, but it doesn't look like it got accepted. So I thought I might as well share it with you guys. Wall of text:

Chaturbate has reached rank one for some of Google's most competitive terms. The most traffic-worthy term its ranking for is "Sex Chat". The term has a whopping 60500 unique United States searches according to SEMRush.

This success definitely secures Chaturbate's success as a free cam site. Its free chat room model, monetized with a tipping system, is definitely going to show to be prosperous with boatloads of search engine traffic flowing in.

This is also a great accomplishment for its affiliate's whitelabels. Since this success is probably due to affiliates like adult4sexchat building backlinks for them through their whitelabel, having an extremely active main site will definitely keep them happy.

Other terms Chaturbate is ranking well for are "Adult Chat", "Adult Cams", and "Sex Cams". These are all very juicy keywords to rank highly for, and they're ranking number one or two for all of them. Each of these keywords are extremely competitive, but with a combined number of 107700 unique United States searches (SEMRush), all their efforts seem to be worth it.

This isn't even including some of the easier, yet juicy terms such as "Free Sex Chat" which has a volume of 40500 unique United States searches per month that they rank number one for. More smaller, but "worth it" terms that they rank number one or two for are "Live Sex Chat", "Live Cams", and "Free Cams". These keywords have a combined search volume of 109100 unique United States search per month on Google.

All these calculations I have referred to do not even include the long-tail keywords that tens of thousands of Google users search for every month. They're definitely ranking extremely highly for longer keywords as well. I haven't even included calculations for other search engines either. With Bing growing into a worthy competitor for Google, they are probably ranking highly, and getting a lot of traffic from their results as well.

Having such an active site does wonders for their social branding. Thousands of people are sharing Chaturbate on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. This kind of extreme social branding will keep people returning to their site, and continue to establish them as one of the worlds largest free cam sites.

As I'm wrapping up, one thing I noticed is that they are not listed in the DMOZ directory. This may be an essential next step to securing their high Google rankings, and bumping themselves from number two to number one for the keywords they haven't completely dominated.

pretty rad!

:thumbsup

Gotta love those WL's everyone built to make that happen

My Free Cams is better though. :2 cents: :pimp

no way, the support is pathetic at MFC

Samefagging is pathetic, go fuck yourself.

How are those WL's giving backlinks to chaturbate?

Oh boy, here we go again

you mean the rel canonical?
doesn't that look unnatural for google? 1000's sites linking via rel canonical?

Lot of smart work to get there for sure.congrats

op if that is true and correct that is excellent news. i myself cammed and put in twelve hour days, i was experimenting first, and i got fifty followers in two weeks... like-minded pervs. i think i did well, but there were pitfalls.

I literally have no idea what you just said. :(

They rank so hight not because their WL point to them, they rank so well because other hundreds of affiliate sites with hight PR are poiting to them! That means they have a great affiliate program :thumbsup

<link rel="canonical" href="http://chaturbate.com/" />

Fucking A that worked like a charm for them...

They were at best 2nd page for cam girls... guess where they are now?

LOL...

Cashing checks :thumbsup

Yes they are. I bet graham has a halo of tin foil ob his head right about now as well

Old news :winkwink: but yep, they currently rank #1 for like 99% cam terms... what's more, for some terms, they take #1, #2, #3 positions:pimp

Correct :2 cents:

they will bank now after affs push them to the top

It doesn't bring them any PR juice at all. Chaturate.com and all Chaturbate's WLs is a set of pages with the same content so this tag only says to Google, "this page (chaturbate.com) is the most useful, prefer it in rankings". As mentioned above they rank so well thanks to hundreds of their affiliates directly linking to them from their sites.

Nice!!!!

:repuke

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they are good so no doubt.

Yeah, great move
I wouldn't be... with that:
http://i.imgur.com/KwSMfsS.png

http://i.imgur.com/d28gGnx.png

:2 cents:

go chaturbateeeeeeeeeeee!

It may go down in the next few weeks... Google is making tons of changes every single day to the SEPRs . For "sex chat" on number 2 , 3 , 4 are some facebook pages... it's not something that will last...:2 cents:

they seem to have the best cams.

Wrote this article just to post your whitelabel link, I guess :)

Yes it is old news, and yes the country hosts (fr, de, it etc.) take #2 #3 positions often, pushing down everyone else.

However I disagree the whitelabel canonical thing helps that much, you should also check 3 word searches (more specific) and who ranks at position #2 to #10. It is more complicated, you will find often sites with affiliates but no whitelabels (as tubecamgirl) or no whitelabel or affiliate program at all (as cam4). Naked com now ranks better than myfreecams, despite being apparently less popular, any clue why?

Ranking change every day but a few 3 word searches (for USA hosts) currently gives:

cam girl free -> CT #1 + #2; wikipedia #3, tubecamgirl #4, naked #5
http://www.google.com/ncr#hl=en&safe...oogle.com&fp=1

cam girls free -> CT # 1, naked #2, a blackhat guy #3, tubecamgirl #5, cam4 #5, myfreecams #6
http://www.google.com/ncr#hl=en&safe...oogle.com&fp=1

girls live free -> CT #1, naked #2, cam4 #3, camster #4 + #5, the blackhat guy #6, tubecmagirl #7
http://www.google.com/ncr#hl=en&safe...oogle.com&fp=1

cam girls live -> camgirlslive.com (streamray whitelabel) #1, CT #2, naked #3, livejasmin #4, the blackhat guy #5, tubecamgirl #6, cam4 #7
http://www.google.com/ncr#hl=en&safe...oogle.com&fp=1

free webcam girls -> CT #1, cam4 #2, myfreecams #3, naked #4, the blackhat guy #5, lonelycamgirls (VS whitelabel) #6, tubecamgirl #7
http://www.google.com/ncr#hl=en&safe...oogle.com&fp=1

free cam girls -> CT #1, myfreecams #2, naked #3, cam4 #4, the blackhat guy #5, tubecamgirl #6
http://www.google.com/ncr#hl=en&safe...oogle.com&fp=1

Now the blackhat guy looks like a genius. His domain livejasmin-chat.com it ranks higher than livejasmin.com on cam searches, and such domain... simply redirects to a livejasmin whitelavel livejane.com (they could not have a whitelabel containing livejasmin word of course). How a redirector to a WL can rank so high, I don't know, any clues?

Genius blackhat host, just a redirect to other url it ranks top everywhere:

Request URL:http://livejasmin-chat.com/
Status Code:302 Found
Connection:close
Location:http://www.livejane.com
Server:Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
X-Powered-By:PHP/5.3.3-7+squeeze15

is SEMRush accurate? I am sick of wordtracker.

And now you'll see everyone else do the same thing.

Success = time to fuck the affiliates some more

That is usually how it works unless the owner actually has some ethics. It's very rare in adult!

I like to take the united states searches for a keyword, then multiply it about about 2.5. That usually gives me a good estimate for what I end up seeing in my webmaster tools search analytics. However, that doesn't include the loads of other keywords you get impressions for while simultaneously ranking for that one big "main" keyword.

edit: That's just an estimate I've seen with my seo campaigns. My x2.5 method most likely isn't accurate for other keywords, so take it with a grain of salt.