The Role Of A Good Domain In SEO Results

[Floyd Bogart]

I am finding more and more that the sites where I have a high quality (read that Keyword Rich) domain name outperforms a site with a poor quality (even shorter) domain name in getting traffic from the organic search results.

Oh, I can get them to rank well just fine!

Problem is, people just don't click on them.

I have sites that are in the top 3 on page 1 of Google for high volume search terms (several 1,000 searches daily) that aren't getting more than a small handful of clicks every day. These are always the sites without relevant domain names to the search being conducted, such as an acronym or something very general.

I also have sites that are getting a couple of dozen hits daily from search terms that only have a hundred or so searches every day that are down around the number 6 spot on Google's first page. These are the sites with an extremely relevant domain name. Sometimes (but not always) containing the term being searched for.

Just some food for thought...

[delsauzo]

I think this may just be related to form of 'search psychology' but its a really interesting observation. Coming to think of it I usually do the same thing when searching for information on google.