Comments on: Google, Yahoo & Microsoft : SEO Influence of Keywords in Domain Names

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:32:18 +0000

dot com was the first registration 25 years ago it is The Brand to have.
In the USA the com is advertised extensively, in the UK the .com & country code co.uk are used by the trusted corporate brands. For commerce dot com & country codes are seen as brands & that is the the weight they have. In seo terms not important, in every other way very important unless you registered silly fun one.

By: Bill Joyce

Bill Joyce — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:43:23 +0000

It sounds like the consensus is that keywords in the domain name will help at least some…some believe more than others. I have two questions. 1) is there any SEO impact to .com, .net, .info, .org, etc? I can buy .info domains from Godaddy for under $1each. and 2) do hyphens-in-the-domain help or hurt in any way?

Thanks

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:51:44 +0000

There is a further point to consider – site owners who have secured a good keyword related domain are likely to be seo savvy, so the domain name is probably the first of many seo techniques that have been employed in the site to obtain the high rankings.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:43:04 +0000

Bottom line. with the same budget would a decent SEO pro want to work with a tld keyword to promote a new brand name or offer the brand another store entrance or would he tell the client our social linguistics mean nothing ? Humans still program script for the species, if there is an advantage I will take it, country codes & the international .com is now branded advantage. BBC.co.uk BBC.co.uk/news BBC.co.uk/ whatever I want.co.uk, I now trust .co.uk
it is now a trusted brand.

By: supersyd

supersyd — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:01:02 +0000

How about the opposite question – how do Google, Yahoo and MSN PPC advertising handle domains as keywords? Suppose I am bidding on http://www.cars.com Will the search engines disallow this keyword, or even worse, strip off the www and .com, leaving me with cars as my keyword? Any thoughts?

By: Juegos

Juegos — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:24:45 +0000

The keyword in the domain name helps a lot, if you don’t have the keyword in the domain name you must always work harder and better. My opinion.

By: Video Marketing

Video Marketing — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:56:29 +0000

I agree. Having keywords in the URL can dominate in the search engines. I do seo marketing for small local business to promote their products or services. Clients are satisfied with the results. I appreciate your great tips! Thanks for sharing.

By: sap

sap — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:19:02 +0000

more correct version:

I ‘perform’ seo for three health industry websites. Each provide news, jobs, ces. Jobs and CEs are provided through the same application for each and are listed very blandly as jobs or ces in the URL for all three websites. I’m ‘fighting’ to have each branded as, for example, occupationaltherapyjobs (or OTjobs) in the url. It’ll be painful for the dev team, but after reading here, I believe there is an argument to include them and to go that extra mile (and pain) to include them.

By: sap

sap — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:16:55 +0000

I ‘perform’ seo for three health industry websites. Each provide news, jobs, ces. Jobs and CEs are provided through the same application for each and are listed very blandly as jobs or ces in the URLfor all three websites. I’m fighting to them each branded as, for example, occupationaltherapyjobs (or OTjobs) in the url. It’ll be painful for the dev team, but after reading here, I believe there is an argument to include them and to go that extra mile (and pain) to include them.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:46:50 +0000

Great info, I am getting so sick of the domain game, less and less available because people are so wasteful with them, and the squatting etc. You either end up with a memorable name or a keyword friendly name, but seldom both. When will the madness end! :D