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SEO Experts What Do You Think With Scam In the URL?

by jpboxersox
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Happy New Years Warriors!

I'm think about buying a domain and a xxxxxxxxxscam.net is available. I have many domains but never bought a domain like this. It has 2,100 searches exact per month and I would like to make a review site. How do you promote a sight that has scam in the url

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Sweely99
    Using the word scam in your domain is smart if you ask me. People want to read about scams really, really bad... hence making your CTR (in the SERP) rise. It's a good strategy.

    You promote it just the way you would promote any other type of affiliate website. Except the title of the website has to be cocky
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    • Profile picture of the author packerfan
      Depends on how you're going to use the site.

      Let's say you're making a review site about dragon naturally speaking...

      so you buy dragonnaturallyspeakingscam.com

      And all you do is put information that supports it being a great product...

      I think you lose all credibility and there are literally 1000 other words you could put in place of scam. But to each their own.
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  • Profile picture of the author MiFortuna
    This is a not so new trick and people are starting to catch on to the -scam in the url just being a sales page. I would suggest using another word without the negativity attached to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    I think scam is a poison word... If you use this keyword in your URL, Google may filter this while processing queries. I would not advise you to go for URL with scam.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bofu2U
      Originally Posted by C Rebecca View Post

      I think scam is a poison word... If you use this keyword in your URL, Google may filter this while processing queries. I would not advise you to go for URL with scam.
      No, it won't. Scam is a fine word to use, just make sure you watch yourself legally with certain trademarked terms and other laws against talking ill about companies (the level of proof required, etc).
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  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    Matt Cutts of Google says that keyword rich domain names don't count anymore. However, not sure about Bing / Yahoo.
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by bigcat1967 View Post

      Matt Cutts of Google says that keyword rich domain names don't count anymore. However, not sure about Bing / Yahoo.
      Matt Cutts says a lot of things. Take what he says with a grain of salt.
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  • Profile picture of the author mosthost
    It seems that 'TrademarkViolationKeywordScam.com" is not that smart of a domain name for a few obvious reasons. You see it all the time, but that doesn't mean it's intelligent
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  • Profile picture of the author retsced
    Personally, i would never read a review with the product name in the url. If it's in the url then it is guaranteed to be a biased review. Obviously this depends on the product you are promoting. In the I.M niche, people are getting wide to all this nonsense by now.
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    • Profile picture of the author ralchevd
      Originally Posted by retsced View Post

      Personally, i would never read a review with the product name in the url. If it's in the url then it is guaranteed to be a biased review. Obviously this depends on the product you are promoting. In the I.M niche, people are getting wide to all this nonsense by now.
      Right.

      Plus, you will be crossed out really quick if there is a trademark in the domain name. Especially in your case.
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  • Profile picture of the author jpboxersox
    More I think about it I don't see many sights ranked with scam in the domain.
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