Comments on: Domain Names & SEO | Sulumits Retsambew

By: SEO Service

SEO Service — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:49:26 +0000

There is something more to add…..Matt Cutt said that keywords in domain can help but quite little. You cannot only emphasis on that domain and get ranked.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:07:45 +0000

Great post. It’s interesting to me that you as a domain expert haven’t looked that much in the SEO industry. I am on the opposite side…know fairly enough about domaining, but know SEO extremely well. I am always stunned when I see the domain industry not monetizing their portfolios outside the box (e.g. not parking but using services like Inlinks.com to sell links off their sites…) or connect closer with the SEO industry.

Anyways..great post! Always great to read your blog (even as a non-domainer).

By: George Pickering

George Pickering — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:25:35 +0000

I’m not an SEO expert. But I’ve been able to get the .com to #1 when the domain name matches the search term we target (on a consistent basic) and .net(s) in the top five. Several of these were for significant search terms with more than 10,000 exact searches a month.

By: Troy

Troy — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:13:45 +0000

I put a placeholder page up for a 2 word .org domain that I won at auction about 4 days ago. Yesterday, while checking my website stats I realized that the site was on page 1 (rank 8) with 12.2 million results. It was also the #6 spot for the term in quotes, which provided over 6million results.

Needless to say I put a site up instead of a sales page and integrated it with Amazon’s affiliate program. Hopefully it works ehh?

By: Terrell

Terrell — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:42:55 +0000

The exact match bonus, which is given by search engines when the domain matches the exact search query, is applied to .com, .net, and .org equally.

By: Leonard Britt

Leonard Britt — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:22:27 +0000

Not a SEO expert either but I understand site age is more important than domain age and if one can find a less competitive term, one can still rank well with the right domain. I registered a 3-word .net in May which is the Spanish equivalent of women’s dresses but a searched phrase. I put several pages of videos for different types of dresses – wedding dresses, fashion, evening, quinceañera, full-figure, etc but text is minimal as what do I know about women’s dresses? Initially my site was on page two of Google for that term but in short order made it to the middle of page one and is also on page one for a few other similar phrases. The site is only three months old but in the last month organic traffic was around 1250 visitors. If you type in the phrase without quotes Google shows over 900K results but with quotes only 19K.