There are some things money can't buy. In my case, VIP passes at a local nightclub.
So there's a local club I go to pretty often with my girlfriend (and usually her sister, as well). Good music, good atmosphere, nice staff. And if you have a VIP pass, on weekends, males get in free before 12:30, women before 1:00 am. I don't enjoy paying for myself and my gf (call me a cheapskate if you wish) when others are getting in for free at the same time. They get access to a special area of the club, better bar service, comfortable seatings, etc. Interestingly enough the owner decided not to sell these VIP passes. Instead he limited them to the limited few who were able to go to the inauguration, local celebrities, and friends.
Yeah, so I wanted to get a VIP pass for my gf and I but I didn't want to pirate it and I didn't know anybody selling 'em.
Anyway the club's name [changed so I don't make it stupidly easy to figure out who I am] is Puerto. And their website was puerto.ar, the local extension code [once again, that won't be the real domain]. Puerto.com happened to be registered but dropping soon (if the owner didn't wake up or paid any attention to it. I sure as hell wasn't dumb enough to visit it [make sure you use whois - visiting might inflate stats and make the owner consider it to have value]. But guess what, the giant domain parker didn't renew this domain, so I picked it up several months later. Oh and puerto.ar also ranked #1 in Google for that nightclub's name. In local (Spanish) search terms, and also international English.
So much potential with this name... do I go with Goatse, tubgirl? Flat out offer it to the owner in exchange for VIP passes?
I decided I wanted to rank #1 for 'Puerto', then maybe the owner would be interested. I considered getting rid of the real site, but didn't want to waste my time on a Googlebowl, and potentially help them with their ranking.
Before even working on the content/design of the site, I went linking. I was linking to Puerto from some of my sites, a little guestbook spamming, etc. I wasn't competing to grab one of the top 3 spots for 'buy viagra', so I wasn't terribly concerned about this point about getting thousands of unique links.
So after I did some linking, I decided to setup the site. Do I pretend to be the club's real site.. go goatse.. or what? I decided to make it look like the club's site, sorta. I found some random party/club template with nice Flash.. music playing... from one of those template [warez] sites. It wasn't similar, but it looked like a club's site.
Autoplaying music? Sweet. But good music is overrated, so I decided to go with something less known such as Muppet Show Album's hit Mississippi Mud. Hey, I wasn't being paid, there was no point in visitors getting too comfortable.
I still had to look pretty for Google, so I made sure to have some good keyword-Puerto-rich paragraphs about the club. (Just because it was keyword-rich doesn't mean I had to say nice things about it in the paragraphs, after all this wasn't a billboard, and I wasn't interested in giving the owner any free publicity until I got what I want). Instead of the club's phone number, I just listed the local Domino's number. Instead of the address.. I put a question mark [actually I put the street name + question mark, in the offchance someone might Google the name and street together], and instead of the club's open hours and events schedule, I put closed until further notice [note: my gf was against putting "closed until further notice", she thought it might piss off the owners of the club and I'd just get banned. I considered I could always go goatse until they let me back in.] I also added a little bold Verdana size 1 centered (my favorite font setting) line at the bottom of the page that 3 VIP passes would fix the site.
So 2 weeks later, I was ranked #8 for Puerto. Obviously only #1 is the only place that would have any possible value for me.
I gave myself some more linkin' love. It definitely helped here having several sites regarding the country and/or city where I live.
6 weeks [4 weeks after the 2 weeks later], I was ranked #1 (yes, it was a little longer than maybe I had wanted. If you weren't impressed, I apologize and I will lie in my next anecdote).
I emailed their webmaster, offering the domain for sale (obviously I made sure to mention my ranking in Google, dur). I sorta hinted at the potential [damage] of my #1 ranking. The webmaster wrote back and asked how much. I said I wanted 3 VIP passes. It was another week before the webmaster said they could do that for the immediate transfer of the name.. I needed to meet them at the entrance of the club and I identify myself (this is South America, biatch.. 18 is the drinking age, so they just don't card people - in other words, even with my name, they might have never figured out who I was).
The next day I was there, half expecting them to take a photo, and my access to be permanently terminated. My gf would have kicked my ass.
But no, there was the fat bastard (owner, or maybe son of..), and he was being nice to me. I explained how a domain transfer would work.. or I could push the domains. I got the plastic passes (two female and one male), and I was outta there.
The VIP passes ended up costing me 7 bucks (domain reg fee).
Hurray.
So there's a local club I go to pretty often with my girlfriend (and usually her sister, as well). Good music, good atmosphere, nice staff. And if you have a VIP pass, on weekends, males get in free before 12:30, women before 1:00 am. I don't enjoy paying for myself and my gf (call me a cheapskate if you wish) when others are getting in for free at the same time. They get access to a special area of the club, better bar service, comfortable seatings, etc. Interestingly enough the owner decided not to sell these VIP passes. Instead he limited them to the limited few who were able to go to the inauguration, local celebrities, and friends.
Yeah, so I wanted to get a VIP pass for my gf and I but I didn't want to pirate it and I didn't know anybody selling 'em.
Anyway the club's name [changed so I don't make it stupidly easy to figure out who I am] is Puerto. And their website was puerto.ar, the local extension code [once again, that won't be the real domain]. Puerto.com happened to be registered but dropping soon (if the owner didn't wake up or paid any attention to it. I sure as hell wasn't dumb enough to visit it [make sure you use whois - visiting might inflate stats and make the owner consider it to have value]. But guess what, the giant domain parker didn't renew this domain, so I picked it up several months later. Oh and puerto.ar also ranked #1 in Google for that nightclub's name. In local (Spanish) search terms, and also international English.
So much potential with this name... do I go with Goatse, tubgirl? Flat out offer it to the owner in exchange for VIP passes?
I decided I wanted to rank #1 for 'Puerto', then maybe the owner would be interested. I considered getting rid of the real site, but didn't want to waste my time on a Googlebowl, and potentially help them with their ranking.
Before even working on the content/design of the site, I went linking. I was linking to Puerto from some of my sites, a little guestbook spamming, etc. I wasn't competing to grab one of the top 3 spots for 'buy viagra', so I wasn't terribly concerned about this point about getting thousands of unique links.
So after I did some linking, I decided to setup the site. Do I pretend to be the club's real site.. go goatse.. or what? I decided to make it look like the club's site, sorta. I found some random party/club template with nice Flash.. music playing... from one of those template [warez] sites. It wasn't similar, but it looked like a club's site.
Autoplaying music? Sweet. But good music is overrated, so I decided to go with something less known such as Muppet Show Album's hit Mississippi Mud. Hey, I wasn't being paid, there was no point in visitors getting too comfortable.
I still had to look pretty for Google, so I made sure to have some good keyword-Puerto-rich paragraphs about the club. (Just because it was keyword-rich doesn't mean I had to say nice things about it in the paragraphs, after all this wasn't a billboard, and I wasn't interested in giving the owner any free publicity until I got what I want). Instead of the club's phone number, I just listed the local Domino's number. Instead of the address.. I put a question mark [actually I put the street name + question mark, in the offchance someone might Google the name and street together], and instead of the club's open hours and events schedule, I put closed until further notice [note: my gf was against putting "closed until further notice", she thought it might piss off the owners of the club and I'd just get banned. I considered I could always go goatse until they let me back in.] I also added a little bold Verdana size 1 centered (my favorite font setting) line at the bottom of the page that 3 VIP passes would fix the site.
So 2 weeks later, I was ranked #8 for Puerto. Obviously only #1 is the only place that would have any possible value for me.
I gave myself some more linkin' love. It definitely helped here having several sites regarding the country and/or city where I live.
6 weeks [4 weeks after the 2 weeks later], I was ranked #1 (yes, it was a little longer than maybe I had wanted. If you weren't impressed, I apologize and I will lie in my next anecdote).
I emailed their webmaster, offering the domain for sale (obviously I made sure to mention my ranking in Google, dur). I sorta hinted at the potential [damage] of my #1 ranking. The webmaster wrote back and asked how much. I said I wanted 3 VIP passes. It was another week before the webmaster said they could do that for the immediate transfer of the name.. I needed to meet them at the entrance of the club and I identify myself (this is South America, biatch.. 18 is the drinking age, so they just don't card people - in other words, even with my name, they might have never figured out who I was).
The next day I was there, half expecting them to take a photo, and my access to be permanently terminated. My gf would have kicked my ass.
But no, there was the fat bastard (owner, or maybe son of..), and he was being nice to me. I explained how a domain transfer would work.. or I could push the domains. I got the plastic passes (two female and one male), and I was outta there.
The VIP passes ended up costing me 7 bucks (domain reg fee).
Hurray.
i did this with a new building they were building they bought their domain with loads of - in the name and i bought the one without any " - " now i rank #1 on google for the terms but they dont seem to budge ..looks like they need to give me the building for the domain 
