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Please Help!

by JTexan
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I own an exact match two word domain ecommerce website within a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Here's the problem..when I type the two words into google as one long word (no space) I am at the very top of the first page, but when I type the two words using a space (as almost everyone does) I am all way down on the twelve page. How is this possible, and what can I do about it? By the way, I know all about google's new algorithm and how exact match domains are not as valuable as they once were, but an eleven page difference because of one tiny space in between words! I would greatly appreciate any theories or suggestions, thanks!
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Your ranking for the domain name because your the only site on the net targeting the domain name which isn't the same as the original keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    If you own keyword1keyword2.tld that's not an exact match domain to the keyword1 keyword2 SERP, it's an exact match to keyword1keyword2 ONLY.

    Why would Google consider keyword1keyword2 as relevant to keyword1 keyword2 when it's equally relevant to:

    key word1 keyword2
    key wo rd1ke ywo rd2
    ke ywor d1ke ywo rd2
    keyword1 k e y word2
    k e y w o r d 1 k e y w o r d 2
    etc...

    Google needs a separator between words, any of these:

    - hyphen
    . dot
    / forward slash

    No other character counts as a word separator (unless the URL is dynamic then there's #, ? and probably others, not checked).

    The exact match would be keyword1-keyword2.tld and that's not your domain. So you are ranking for what your domain name targets, loads of webmasters make this mistake.

    warriorforum.com isn't exact match for warrior forum, but domain name is a small ranking factor, so though this forums domain isn't using the exact match domain it is optimized in other ways. Backlinks with Warrior Forum as the anchor text for example.

    David
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    Freelance SEO Consultant
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