They've got great unique content. This is good for two reasons:
a) Google loves unique content. Unique content on old-world lyrics websites consists of comments buried under the fold. Whereas these guys have pages and subpages full of it.
b) They're going to get a bajillion inbound links because their content is interesting to link to (as opposed to standard lyrics sites). Which will rank them higher than their competitors for the same queries.
I see a lot of comparisons with Yelp. I still type in business names with "Yelp" appended into google because I want a specific result. Wouldn't be surprised if they're getting the same sort of queries already since what they have is so much better than any lyrics site.
Side note: I just opened AZ lyrics and some flash abomination nearly crashed my browser.
b) They're going to get a bajillion inbound links because their content is interesting to link to (as opposed to standard lyrics sites). Which will rank them higher than their competitors for the same queries.
This is true today, and RapGenius has a great linking feature that lets you link to a single line explanation in the lyrics (helpful so the recipient doesn't have to scroll through and find the line of interest).
a) Google loves unique content. Unique content on old-world lyrics websites consists of comments buried under the fold. Whereas these guys have pages and subpages full of it.
b) They're going to get a bajillion inbound links because their content is interesting to link to (as opposed to standard lyrics sites). Which will rank them higher than their competitors for the same queries.
I see a lot of comparisons with Yelp. I still type in business names with "Yelp" appended into google because I want a specific result. Wouldn't be surprised if they're getting the same sort of queries already since what they have is so much better than any lyrics site.
Side note: I just opened AZ lyrics and some flash abomination nearly crashed my browser.