Targeting competitors domain name as keyword

So I thought, why the hell not target my main competitor's domain name rather then the services/products we both promote. My competitors stats, roughly using G's keyword tool:
Searches per month for them in Google: 362k (about the same globally and locally)

inurl:theirdomain -theirdomain.com (19k)
intitle:theirdomain -theirdomain.com (19.4k)

I just started blog commenting using Scrapebox, using theirs and my domain names as the keyword, I'm currently at around #50 on G for their domain, so I think it's a possibility of getting on page #1 with a little effort. I'm currently writing SEO articles on my site using their domain as the keyword target, I'm hoping within a few weeks of making it to page 1.

They have 364,000 pages indexed, I have 28,300. They're 5 years old with a PR 4 homepage, my site is 8 months old and just FINALLY got PR1 on my homepage. They have 14 G backlinks, I have zero. They have 21,933 YSE backlinks, I have 856.

Do you think this is possible, or am I just pissin' up a rope?

Just created my first article, linked it to my homepage, and google cached it in 2 minutes, that's a record for me.

I wrote one article SEO'd with their domain name last night, my site was at #56. This morning, the page I wrote is at #9 on page 1. I achieved my goal overnight, thinking it would possibly take weeks.

i guess you're not pissin up a rope.. lol. where did you submit the article?

maineyak said:

Just created my first article, linked it to my homepage, and google cached it in 2 minutes, that's a record for me.

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Sorry about the offtopic, but what site was that where you could your aritcle to be indexed in 2 minutes?

I have trouble to get my new backlink properties indexed - although these are unique content blogs and articles.

Thanks

Keep pissing =)
Sounds interesting

The article was something I wrote on the site itself, about 200 words. I put a link to it on the homepage, went and took a shower, and when I returned, it was already indexed, 2 minutes after I linked it. I'm already receiving traffic for searches to their domain.

Just wondering, I know it depends on your competitor's name, but have you ever consider about 'legal issues'?

What if your competitor is "Acer" for example. Its a trademark?

SEOfarmer said:

Just wondering, I know it depends on your competitor's name, but have you ever consider about 'legal issues'?

What if your competitor is "Acer" for example. Its a trademark?

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Any inputs from the question above?
Thanks

It's fine as long as you don't use their brand name in your URL? As far as I am aware!

I'm now on page 1 for several variations of their name, and am getting some good traffic from it already. As far as trademarks. I don't have their name in my domain name, you can mention a trademark name all you want, title the page of it, I don't see how they can come after you. If that was the case, do a search for Apple computers, and every search result that has Apple in their title would be subject to a lawsuit. As long as it's not part of my domain name, I can't see that they can do sh@t

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