Comments on: How Important Is Domain Name Selection For Search Engine Ranking?

By: Diyet

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By: Used Trailers

Used Trailers — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:50:23 +0000

it will be much easier if you are able to find a good keyword rich domain name. Also if you are in a very competitive field you will still need to get backlinks.

By: repellent

repellent — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:49:08 +0000

.I agree that I think it makes some difference. Especially when you're building niche sites and the main idea is to get search engine traffic and not necessarily become a popular site.

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By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:50:48 +0000

Finding a good keyword rich domain name can be challenging in more competitive niches.HoweverIf you can find a keyword rich domain name that has your keyword or phrase in it then do it.

It’s true of course that you can rank for your keywords by properly optimizing your website but it will be much easier if you are able to find a good keyword rich domain name. Also if you are in a very competitive field you will still need to get backlinks.

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:46:17 +0000

Garry;

At the end of the day, when you do a search, it is pretty clear that Google computes a score for your page and puts the ten pages with the highest score on page one.

Because of the reasons that you mentioned, it is pretty clear that domain name is not the most important factor (wikipedia is the best example I can think of). However, it makes sense to me that it would be considered.

So, in the case of a tie — all other SEO factors being the same — the better domain name should win.

Now there are never really ties. But if you are creating thousands of niche pages on hundreds of domains, it make sense to me that choosing good domain names would help in the long run.

Also, this helps the user experience. It is natural to have a domain name that matches what you are searching for. I think it also helps increase your clickthrough rate from Google. If the user sees their phrase in your domain name, I think they are more likely to choose your site from the SERPS on the page.

Like you, I have no actual data, but choosing SEO-optimized domain names makes sense to me.

Regards,
Mark

By: Normal Joe

Normal Joe — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:57:14 +0000

Yeah man…I agree that I think it makes some difference. Especially when you’re building niche sites and the main idea is to get search engine traffic and not necessarily become a popular site.

I’ll continue to do it, just because it seems like a great thing to do and more often than not it seems to help a site get ranked for that keyword.