Couple of Noob questions ..

Ninja250

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Hi,

I have been marketing for a while, using several blackhat techniques, but now im going back to college, im thinking of jumping on the whitehat bandwagon to earn some passive income!

I have done some keyword research and i have a couple of good keywords with 1800 searches monthly, low competition and a sugg.bid of $3.09 (whatever that means)

Im building micro niche sites, and providing unique content!

My questions are:

1. No .com domains are available .. will .net rank well IF the .com of the same domain is just parked and doing nothing? .. Whats your thoughts on .netc?

2. do - in the domains make it less likely to succeed? .. eg, xxx-xxxx-xxx.com

thanks a lot for your help!

 

xiphre

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1. yes will rank well, and better than the parked .com

2. no



Btw - make sure there actually are advertisers for your keywords before you get started.

 

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dirtylittle

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I agree with the above. You can get anything to rank as good, in my opinion, as long as it has better onsite seo and backlinks. If it is a better site, it will do better.

I would leave the - out. I would stick with throwing an extra keyword in there or something.

 

┼blackrat┼

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Ramsweb

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I am not so sure about question 1 but I can answer question 2 for you. The - is not a negative in the URL. I have read a lot of posts here that says - is considered spam by Google but I have seen url's with many -'s in them ranking well for very competitive keywords.

 

H3ktor

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1. Any kind of TLDs are good to go.
2. Always go for domain name without "-"
3. If there is no exact TLD is available consider that keyword as difficult one to rank.

 

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T0mas

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1. .net is good also
2. no "-" in domain name

Good luck!

 

Ninja250

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Thanks a lot for the help guys, i appreciate it

 

Miguel7

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YOur Question was Pretty Much Answered but I Just wanted to Add.
If a Keyword you Want & Like is Taken eg. I want Pilates.com
It's taken so I'd just be "Creative" Add something/anything after the keyword.

Pilatesnow.com
pilates11.com
pilatesmastery.com

I Just think of & go with whatever sounds good.

 

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lildre320

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do the - really negatively effect the ranking?