Exact Keyword as Domain Name How far it Helps?

From my experience I truly believe it does help. I don't think its because an Exact KW domain has more power over any other domain, I think that it has to do with the anchor texts and such that your site will naturally promote if you have an exact kw domain.

Like if I have a site called thecoolford.xyz and you intend to rank for "the cool ford" then when someone links to me they tend to use more relavent keywords in the anchor text for that goal. Plus the link itself has the exact kw's in it which I think helps.

But all else equal, I don't think there is any added benefit to a Exact domain.

Hi,

Yes it does really help. Having a EMD reduces your optimization job. I have tried and tested it already on few of my sites.

Establishing a niche website with an exact match domain name is helpful. When I first started out, building niche websites, I made it a rule for myself to find niches that held keywords with low serp competition on the first page, and had an exact match keyword domain name available to register.

If you find an exact match with .com, .net, or .org, for a keyword that has some good income potential, jump on it! Don't bother registering any other extensions because they just don't have the same effects.

I have yet to launch a niche site that has not ranked in the first page or second page of google upon being indexed for its respected keyword. To achieve this, you much make your your website is optimized for the keyword (title, description, and articles) and you must have multiple pages targeting other similar keywords.

If you are just starting out, start out by finding exact match keyword domain names. Setup 10-20 sites and watch the small increments of money come in. Once you are pumped and have search engine optimization for niche sites down, go ahead and move on to niche keywords with more income potential. At this point, you can forget about exact match keyword domains and start focusing on long term seo tactics for your niche sites.

Hope this helped :-)

P.S: if you don't know how to choose keywords with solid monthly income potential, you might end up wasting your time. Not all keywords, and not all niches are created equally. Stay away from competitive niches.

domain names do not bring in SEO but it sure cuts down on it. I have hundreds or domains and can tell you exact vs domains with "best" "great" "cool" do much much much better.

The same amount of money you spend on SEO and such save that for the domain name as well.

Yea EMD's done necessarily get the job done 100%, but they do make it a whole lot easier. And sometimes you can rank a site with just an EMD and basically no backlinking, depends on the competition levels of the keyword.

Exact domain names truly helps, tried and tested. But you still have to work on it to maintain its position.

It all comes down to the competition level, for things that are not competitive, it will help out, but typically many other keywords are targeted well already, while it may help you pull out in front of the pack as you move forward, it will not be any kind of magic bullet until you have all the other steps in place.

Bottom line it never hurts, and I personally have been able to sell countless domains like that over the years after very little work to earn decent rankings.

Even basic services like sedo have got me decent prices, as there are a million people out there have no idea what they are doing, and often have a lot more money that smarts.

Regardless, it does not hurt but also will provide little help unless you do everything else required, which obviously depends on your goals, and what seo factors are at play.

Thank you very much guys!! Let me check this with a new domain in a least competing niche..!

It does really help! Trust me.

Hi..
see my case study:
100 dollars a month is in first page of keyword : 100 dollars a month.
It is a very new website and just a squeeze page.
So, I guess it works.

for many offline niches... you can rank page 1 in 1 day with domain name and 5 bookmarks.

Exact match domains still get credit in the search engines, although I wish they would look at other on-site stuff as well.

Just recently in my searches I came across many EMDs that literally had nothing on them but an installed default WordPress theme that still had the default 'Hello world' post - many on page 1 of Google in top 5 spots. Great news for me targeting those keywords

I think EMDs are also ideal if you are targeting a niche OR you are interested in flipping just the domain name.

Whatever you can do to increase the value, I'd say do it!

In my experience, it does help when there are keywords in the URL. But that's just one part of the equation. The content, header tags, etc all matter.

But if we really target building a brand name, some times this exact domain name concept will not work there. There we have to bring a good name and brand it for the particular service or project!

Small niche, it helps a lot, I ha a site that opened up after indexing at #1 on page 1 with an MD and site title matching my keywordd(s).

Competitive niche, it ain't gonna do much........just my experience......of course, as Paul said, if you can get it grab it, even for a competitive keyword, go for it, you can use it as a feeder site to your main website..........just remember to have them on separate non sequential IPs, if possible.

Frank

Uh, that wasn't the implication at all. The thread is about whether or not EMD's help, and the answer is a resounding "yes", they help quite a bit. Of course there is still lots of work to go along with that, but that's how this business works. It's a combination of many things that help your ranking, and EMD can certainly be one of them.

Yes, EMD's are awesome. Just make sure that there are plenty of people searching for that kw phrase before you register. Then target other, mid-competition keywords with your inner pages. Always build backlinks. Yey!

edit: I believe this question has been asked a million times already. Why don't people just search for stuff before starting new threads.

having an EMD is huge. HUGE for starting websites. I got to the first rank of google against PR2-4 websites thanks to the EMD. I think after 6 months or so of building backlinks it does not matter as much though ( unless your in an active niche with lots of active competition, my competition is mostly old aged domains currently).