Help: Confused with SEO

[Province]

I've created my website about 9 months ago. In the meantime I've learned that you can rank higher in the search engines by getting your keyword in your domain (which i did not do)

Will it work if i buy a keyword-rich domain and then do a redirect to my original website.

For example, lets assume my original website is xyz.com and that my keyword is 'dog training.' Can i buy a domain like dogtraining.com and then redirect people to my xyz.com?

So, if i do link building for xyz.com (which will be redirected from dogtraining) will i still get any SEO benefit for xyz.com or will the SEO benefit go to dogtraining.com

I'm so confused, can anyone please help?

Province

[kkchoon]

This is not a necessity, you already do so much work on your site, I would say just leave it!

However, you may want to optimize your web site home page, make it more focus and optimized for your keywords:

1. Put keyword in the first paragraph
2. Put keyword in the middle paragraph
3. Put keyword in the last paragraph
4. Don't forget to put keyword in the title too!

Try to write it naturally or get someone with experience... search for SEO article writer and you should find good people.

Next, backlink your site and inner page with one way backlinks, I would recommend mixing directories submission, article submission, bookmarking and Angela's backlink.

To know if your site rank well for a particular keyword, you need to do competitive analysis... search around Warrior forum, you should find some good resources

[Province]

Thanks for the tips, but you still haven't answer the question. Will I still get the SEO benefit if I use a redirect link to my main site (xyz.com)?

[Ursa Anzur]

Yes the SEO benefits would go to your xyz.com website, if you did SEO for your dogtraining.com domain when redirecting it, but I don't see a point in doing something like this. It would be different if your xyz.com domain was completely new.

Just keep making backlinks to your xyz.com domain with your keyword/s in an anchor text, instead of buying a new domain and starting from scratch.

[Province]

Thanks for everyone's input!

[Mike Linley]

I agree with both posters above that it really isnt needed..the keyword in the domain is not that big of contributing factor..you wont see better rankings because of it...its all about on page seo and off page seo..and if you did all that work for your domain I would hate for you to lose rankings because of a redirect and losing customers because of a redirect..just my thoughts...good luck either way!

[Jayson L]

One thing to consider with the new domain is the click through rate. I have 2 websites ranked for the same keywords and the one that is all the way at the bottom of page 1, versus # 5 page 1 that gets more traffic, due to the name. My customers/prospects complement the name of the site all the time and say that it drew them in. Just something to consider..

[kkchoon]

If you redirect your new domain to the original domain, you won't get much link juice and traffic...

First, the new domain need to rank for the major keyword first, and if you build all the backlinks to that domain, you need article.

When you finally rank for that keyword and you redirect the traffic, Google will devalue your effort a lot!

That's why I suggest you get traffic from article marketing or just optimize your site for the keyword and do one way High PR backlinks to promote it!

Forget about the domain thing, I can rank high for any kind of domain, as long as the on page optimization is right... and I will do a lot of backlinks to it.

[bally chohan]

Thanks for such a detailed discussion. I also gets some good point regarding redirects.