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"How 2" in stead of "how to" in domain

by CurtisSWN
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Would Google give me some credit for using "how 2" in the url instead of "how to" ?

Naturally the kwp for my url is already taken, but I wonder if this is the next best thing?
#domain #how 2 #how to #stead
  • Profile picture of the author Brendan Mace
    You'll lose out on the "exact match" relevance boost. But the whole "exact match" thing is a little overrated anyways. If you have the majority of the keyword in the url, you will pick up a some LSI relevancy boost.

    Although "exact match" is ideal. You can more than make up for it with a little SEO grunt work.
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  • Profile picture of the author howto
    Both are worthless words to have in the domain. I made this mistake too once. "how" and "to" are both stop words meaning Google ignores them, same with words such as "and" "the" etc. Look up some info using Google search on Google stop words before making your domain.


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    • Profile picture of the author CurtisSWN
      Okay, how about "howto-make-great-cookies" there is no hyphen in the "how to". Would Google get suspicious of that?
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by CurtisSWN View Post

        Okay, how about "howto-make-great-cookies" there is no hyphen in the "how to". Would Google get suspicious of that?
        LOL! That is the epitome of how NOT to make a domain.

        Get off the EMD kick and you'll discover how things get easier
        and simpler. Leading to better results, actually.

        Just what "credit" do you think google is going to give?
        For what?

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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          LOL! That is the epitome of how NOT to make a domain.

          Get off the EMD kick and you'll discover how things get easier
          and simpler. Leading to better results, actually.

          Just what "credit" do you think google is going to give?
          For what?

          Paul


          Your whole comment EMD is available, lol.

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    It's not so much them being suspicious. More just stop words are ignored by Google. The reason for this is to reduce strain on their server, like I said have a read about what they're for.

    Based on your suggestion I would just call it "great-cookies" or "making-great-cookies" there is no disadvantage to using a stop word so if you want to call it "how-to-make-great-cookies" go ahead however it's a bit long. Keep in mind the shorter and catcher the domain the more people who will remember it and come back. Make your domain for your users and yourself not Google. Pick one you like to be honest. I get loads of returning customers typing in my domain in my sig into Google looking for it because it's short and catchy. With my older domains which I soed for Google and not users this doesn't happen often.


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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Uhm... Google is smart enough to know the difference in definitions of to & two (2).

    Just because it sounds the same to a human doesn't mean you can fool a bot into thinking they have the same meanings.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Uhm... Google is smart enough to know the difference in definitions of to & two (2).

      Just because it sounds the same to a human doesn't mean you can fool a bot into thinking they have the same meanings.
      Lol, you clearly the smarter one of our two I was thinking in terms like: "hmmm would Google include those abbrevations, if that's what you can call it" LOL
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