Keyword Domain
Dispelling the myths about owning a keyword domain name.
Before you buy your domain name, please read this article. It could save you hours on SEO and hundreds of dollars if you outsource.
After doing some research for a domain name for a friends website, I curiously saw some SEO experts downplaying the importance of having a keyword rich domain name.
Let me put this matter to bed now.
YOU MUST HAVE A KEYWORD DOMAIN NAME!
Okay, okay, that was a bit strong I know. Yes, you can manage to survive without it by using anchor tags in your inbound links, but you are multiplying the time it will take for you to have your site show up in search results by at least 100%.
Need proof, take a look at this screenshot I took from www.nichewatch.com the best source for the behind the scenes action on the race to number one!
Keyword Domain
The above statistics are for the Google Search, “Miami Auto Insurance”. You can see quite clearly that the domain highlighted in Yellow is the keyword domain “miamiautoinsurance.com” it currently has 9 inbound links and it has been in that position for at least the last 60 days!
Our site has a total of 134 links to the Index Page and another 91 links to our page on Miami Auto Insurance! Don’t bother trying to check the results, we have already been bounced to page 2 number 11.
So what can we learn from this little experiment? You must have keywords in your domain! The closer to the exact keywords you are optimizing for the better if you want to make it easy on yourself.
1. There are three additional points to remember. Yahoo/Bing place a lot of emphasis on Keyword Domains. Often new sites without any links will place highly in search results.
2. There are 4 different valuable versions to look at when choosing a domain name.
www.keyword.com
www.keyword-keyword.com (Google skips the hyphen)
www.keyword.net
(Note, I have seen .orgs, and .bizs rank high but the farther away you get from .com, the more inbound linking you have to do get a high ranking.)
3. Just having a Keyword Domain is not enough to keep you ranked forever! You must have some links to your site or Google will drop you down in the results.
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Thank you