Comments on: How Much Weight Do Keywords in the Domain Name Still Have (Poll)?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:27:20 +0000

In our experience, the keywords in the domain have a high weight. For example, if somebody links to your iphone blog , it would be great if the domain already contains some of your keywords (best case: iphone-blog.blah).

We will describe this in the open SEO Wiki at http://en.seowiki.info/onpage_seo/domain_name

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:27:20 +0000

By: Drew Littlejons

Drew Littlejons — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:23:31 +0000

on domains without an exact match. DMOZ is the tell tale factor here. if you see sites without the keyword in the title it probably has a DMOZ link.

By: Seo Stuttgart

Seo Stuttgart — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:16:12 +0000

Hi Ann,

really great post, we are active in the german market. It’s like you told us, generic domains rank easier on Site 1. We have several generic domains and alywas we saw a very quick and good ranking by Google.

By: T.J.

T.J. — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:32:08 +0000

Ann great post, and it is very important and it should be one of the first things to consider when launching a website. You should always look for a domain that is available that represents what you do or what you offer. It can help gain traction quick.

@ Edward Beckett your site with nothing on it now holds the 5th position since you commented 6 months ago..

Also, with Google Caffeine coming out I see this being even more important in the beta testing.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:08:05 +0000

Thanks so much for the posts. I was wondering if you did not include keywords in your url but then purchased a url with keywords and did a 301 re-direct to your main url…would this be beneficial?

By: Juegos

Juegos — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:36:03 +0000

The keyword in the domain name is very important, once you will have a boost because it’s your name, brand. In the second place you have the boost indirectly by gaining backlinks with the exact match keyword. Good article.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:48:16 +0000

It seems hit or miss, and I’m not quite sure why.

I did a test of my own and registered miamidolphinsposters.com around a month ago and am not even indexed on any of the big search engines for the term “miami dolphins posters”.

By: Money Making Ideas

Money Making Ideas — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:07:47 +0000

That might be cool to have our keyword in the domain name, I believe that it might has minor impact when it comes to search engine ranking.

-Davis-

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