Keyword in your domain name? Is it that powerful?

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zmoker

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I heard many people say that by having the keyword in your domain name, you will definitely have a better chance for a better ranking.

Do you think it affects your ranking that much?

 

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lolzap

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Yes, it definitely help you get easier on the first page for that certain keyword.

 

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mj10pop

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yup but u need the same keyword domain

 

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gulp86

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Ask ukescuba

He certainly has things to say

 

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zmoker

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davejug1 said:

Here's a scenario for you. Your customer searches google for sex education and gets over 60 million results. Your domain sexforthebeginner.com comes in around position 30 million (on such a high traffic keyword, even blackhat techniques won't get you much further above number 100.

Imagine you owned sexeducation.com. You could quite literally do no SEO, have shed-loads of ads on there and still be ranked in the top 2-3

Click to expand...

Thanks for the tip

I'm currenlty testing this.... I am looking for high traffic long tailed keywords and buy them as a domain.

 

shm03

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The efffect is the strongest for the exact phrase no hyphens i.e. your keyword is orange widgets the best domain would be orangewidgets.tld - the tld doesn't really matter as long as it isn't .info...

 

nossie

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Keywords in the domain are stil very powerfull, for example I sold this website lately:

www[dot]image-shared[dot]com

As you can see below #1 in google for "image shared" and this keyword is not displayed on the page, title and description or any other tag on the website itself.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=image+shared&aq=f&oq=

 

rhino

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no doubt that having a keyword in the domain is a HUGE benefit. as the post above shows in spades!!

failing that? go for the keyword(s) on a subdomain, which works almost as good.

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bocahtua

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Base on my experience, keyword in domain name is still powerful, at least for this time

 

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squelsh

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Yep, very powerful.. Helps you get to the first page in absolutely no time.

I have found one dash to be ok generally i.e. auto-reviews.c0m and using a subdomain can work as well i.e. mercedes.auto-reviews.c0m

Shame though as it really discourages people from building brands and instead we all buy up such domains.

 

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scriptaty

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Yes, it is still powerful. Although other competitors can break your position with a lots of backlinks and high quality content but also you can save a lots of your bucks for link building.