How a small business outranks much bigger companies on Google

Douglas Newby is an independent real estate brokerage representing buyers and sellers of Architecturally Significant Homes in Dallas. His competition is Compass, Briggs Freeman and Allie Beth Allman, firms with hundreds of agents each. He outranks all three on many of the Google searches they share. Our strategy was a multi-domain brand: a large flagship site that holds most of the keyword rankings, plus specific sites that each target a single keyword topic. That lets the same business take several spots on a single page of Google results, and the specific sites often outrank the flagship site on the keywords they cover, because a page about one thing beats a page about everything.

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One business, several domains ranking for the same keyword

Each row is one Google search, with position #1 at the left edge. Every red dot is a different Douglas Newby domain ranking for the same keyword. Compass, Briggs Freeman and Allie Beth Allman have hundreds of agents but only one domain ranking, so the best they can do on any row is a single dot. That is what a multi-domain brand does for a small business: you take more of the page and your competitors get less of it. And what ranks well on Google also shapes what AI chatbots recommend. Drag the slider to move through the week to see how positions change.

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Rankings move for a reason. We rewrite a section, adjust the meta tags, correct the structured data that tells Google and AI what a page is about, or build a new page for a keyword the site had no page about yet. Google and the AI models usually take several days to respond, not one, so being aware of the daily change helps us better understand the updates we make.

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dougnewby.com48 keywords
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crespi-hicks.com10 keywords
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dallasmidcenturymodernhomes.com4 keywords
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prestonhollowdallashomes.com4 keywords
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dallasarchitects.com1 keyword
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swissavenuehomesforsale.com1 keyword

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Google's AI Overviews who to call, the assistant runs a web search behind its answer and reads the top results. The pages it cites are largely the same pages a person would see at the top of Google. The business that ranks high on the searches that matter is the business the AI finds, reads and names.

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