K.I.S.S: How to Rank #1 for a Moderately Difficult KW in Less than 2 Weeks!

This just reminded me of something I did recently with a 301. I had an old site that probably was penalized because of too many spammy links, mass blog commenting, forum profiles etc. I could never get it's rankings out of the shitter. I 301'd that site to another domain that I had sitting around for probably 6 months. The new domain had no content at all. I took all of the content from the original site and dumped it into the new site. Within a couple of weeks the new domain was ranking in the top 15 for most of the keywords that the original site was going for. I built no new backlinks to the new domain either. It ranked strictly off the 301 I'm assuming.

In this situation, was the target/new site hosted on the same IP as the 301'd/penalized site?

Are your rankings still holding?
 


when you're looking to buy an aged high PR domain to 301, does it matter if the old and new domains aren't in the same niche? say if the aged PR domain is bluewidgets.com and then the new domain is datingonline.com ? will the juice still pass to the new site? will that raise any flags or anything?
 
I'd love to hear and update if the site is still ranking high and stable ?
did you keep backlinking it till now if so?
 
Nice plan. I have a few questions which might be helpful to a lot of people.

How much total cost did you incur in getting the site to first position? Did you make back the money yet? From where did you buy the aged PR 2 domain and for how much? Are you targeting the same keyword across all the 10 pages of the mentioned site?

Thanks for sharing your story with us.
 
When you ordered spam gone wild, what anchor text did you use?

Was it for your keyword or just random names or something else?

I've tried a variation of this with a 2 year old 301 site. Nothing happened =/