Experiment: Facebook Page vs Branded Domain

[Dan-Petrovic]

This is a followup to a Q&A posted by fideaux64 taking it from speculative to practical level.

Question: Can a popular social profile page outrank an exact match branded domain.

• Domain: http://erasethethought.com/
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Erase-The-Thought/111096868913182
• Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/erase_the_thought

Results: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=erase%20the%20thought

This experiment is currently in progress. You're welcome to comment and participate.

Note: Please do not link to the main domain - only Facebook or Myspace.

[StalkerB]

What about using another TLD but exact match and the 'Use Facebook as my website' feature? Depends what you're testing for really.

I'm pretty sure that when I registered a new domain and set up a FB page on the same day the FB page outranked it, but after a few days the site was on top so if there's any links between the site and the social pages (and back again) I presume Google can actually figure it out.