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keyword in url v age?

by Chris Drinkwater
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I am working with someone who has an existing site a couple of years old in a but its not ranked to well. They have now bought a domain name which includes the exact keyword phrase. What's the best thing to do? Ditch the old site and put it all up under the new url? redo the links etc... is it better to have age more than the keyword url. What do you think?
#age #keyword #url
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Before "working with someone," learn things. Like the difference between
    a domain and url, a little about links, and things that actually matter.

    Maybe this someone should look elsewhere.

    Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Drinkwater
      I'm not charging then you idiot. I told them I knew somewhere I could get help. Obviouly not from you. Plonker
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by Chris Drinkwater View Post

        I'm not charging then you idiot. I told them I knew somewhere I could get help. Obviouly not from you. Plonker
        Then they are getting exactly what they are paying for.
        A plonker.

        And to those who think age has anything to do with anything,
        man I have no idea who is teaching you this crap.

        But, this thread, from top to bottom, explains why there are so many
        fail threads, "I don't know why," and "how come" nonsense.

        The blind leading the blind.

        Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Age.

    And you can have both. Aged domain + keyword in the URL, even if it's not the domain itself.

    widgets.com/exact-keywords.html can rank just as well as exact-keywords.com with proper SEO & page optimization.
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  • Profile picture of the author kimseo
    Why don't you pick both?
    E.g. aged domain with keywords in URL

    If i have to pick one, I will go for aged domain
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    I think a good choice for you right now is redirecting the old domian to the new one using 301 redirect. But please note that only having keywords in domain name doesn't guarantee anything. If you are working on a competitive keyword, then you need quality backlinks and seo works to rank in top results of search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author strategic seo services
    Originally Posted by Chris Drinkwater View Post

    I am working with someone who has an existing site a couple of years old in a but its not ranked to well. They have now bought a domain name which includes the exact keyword phrase. What's the best thing to do? Ditch the old site and put it all up under the new url? redo the links etc... is it better to have age more than the keyword url. What do you think?
    I would stick with the older site, and build high quality backlinks to that site.
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    Yes, high quality backlinks work these days but you have to do it naturally and slowly.
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    • Profile picture of the author cctvinstallers
      Do both and see what works best, i usually buy a keyword rich domain in a low or medium competition market ( you can check that using exact match search on google adwords keyword tool and also weighing up your competition on the first page of google for your target keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author mcatt
    EMD are worthless really except maybe for the actual searcher seeing it.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Don't do any redirect for the sake of an EMD, that's just pissing in the wind, it's not going to do anything to rank a page. If the EMD makes sense for the entire site (ex: cars.com) fine do a redirect If that's what you want to do, but doing a redirect for something like red-cars-that-are-fast.com is useless.
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