Which Domain Name Should I Choose?

14 years ago

You've answered your own question, so to speak.
You don't need keywords in a domain. Totally bogus.
That's why the domains you wish you had are nowhere
to be found. They drank the same koolaid. Websites
get ranked and SEO'd. Not domains. Pick the coolest
sounding domain you can come up with and snatch it
up. Keywords are not an issue.

Your competition uses domains like buy.com, geek.com,
tigerdirect.com, wise geek.com, etc. Notice how those are
all big boy sites? And they could care less about keywords in
a domain. I did not even mention amazon.com

If your competition has no keywords in their domains, why do
you think somehow keywords in your domain is going to
outrank them? It won't. It's what these people have done with
their websites after buying a domain.

Paul

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sixstring 14 years ago

@paulgl - point well taken.
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seopro91

14 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

You've answered your own question, so to speak.
You don't need keywords in a domain. Totally bogus.
That's why the domains you wish you had are nowhere
to be found. They drank the same koolaid. Websites
get ranked and SEO'd. Not domains. Pick the coolest
sounding domain you can come up with and snatch it
up. Keywords are not an issue.

Your competition uses domains like buy.com, geek.com,
tigerdirect.com, wise geek.com, etc. Notice how those are
all big boy sites? And they could care less about keywords in
a domain. I did not even mention amazon.com

If your competition has no keywords in their domains, why do
you think somehow keywords in your domain is going to
outrank them? It won't. It's what these people have done with
their websites after buying a domain.

Paul

I didn't know about that. Everytime I've bought a domain I've been trying to squeeze keywords into the domains. Now I no longer have to worry. Thank you for such a great point!

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Andrei S

14 years ago

not always true. i bought a domain with the keywords in it and it ranked on the second page after 2 days from indexing, from 2.000.000 search results

Originally Posted by paulgl

You've answered your own question, so to speak.
You don't need keywords in a domain. Totally bogus.
That's why the domains you wish you had are nowhere
to be found. They drank the same koolaid. Websites
get ranked and SEO'd. Not domains. Pick the coolest
sounding domain you can come up with and snatch it
up. Keywords are not an issue.

Your competition uses domains like buy.com, geek.com,
tigerdirect.com, wise geek.com, etc. Notice how those are
all big boy sites? And they could care less about keywords in
a domain. I did not even mention amazon.com

If your competition has no keywords in their domains, why do
you think somehow keywords in your domain is going to
outrank them? It won't. It's what these people have done with
their websites after buying a domain.

Paul

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thomasr 14 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

You've answered your own question, so to speak.
You don't need keywords in a domain. Totally bogus.
Paul

ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT!

The #1 SEO rule is to have the keywords you are targeting in the URL! I like to add best or cheap or modifiers like that when buying domains
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- paulgl 14 years ago
  
  You are kidding right?
  If that's the #1 rule, it was completely broken by my first post.
  But, sigh, the myth goes on. Look at the forum you are using.
  It is a top ranked forum for internet marketing forum. Nothing
  to do with the word warrior.
  
  The biggest, baddest sites take even nonsense silly domainsn
  and run with them.
  
  What, pray tell, are the biggest real estate sites, for example?
  zillow.com and trulia.com
  
  If you think keywords in your domain is the #1 rule for SEO,
  you have quite a bit to learn. In fact, the #1 site on google
  for "lcd monitors" with quotes is newegg.com
  I guess newegg.com never saw the memo on that keyword thing.
  
  In fact, there is not a single, repeat not a SINGLE search result in
  the top 10 that has LCD monitors in their domains.
  
  Case closed. But, sadly, people will ignore the real world and go
  with their own feel-good myths.
  
  Oh by the way. Just did a search on bing without quotes. Again,
  not a single keyword-in-the-domain on the first page. Nary a one.
  But newegg showed up again. As well as the biggest, baddest perhaps,
  tigerdirect.com. I guess they are selling tigers. NOT!
  
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  Gale10 14 years ago
  
  At the risk of being shot down in flames, could it be that if you are building an adsense site, with rather low search count, then it is better to have the keyword in the domain name?
  
  And if you are building a site with a USP and product then it doesn't matter so much?
  
  Hey, I am not the wise one, it was just a thought!
  
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  paulgl 14 years ago
  
  Let me revisit this yet again.
  I have a certain free blog on blogspot.
  I have a squidoo lens on a certain niche.
  (That lens is rocking at the moment)
  On yahoo, my squidoo lens is at #3 for the niche.
  Now, I did a blog post on my blog about this niche,
  complete with links to my squidoo lens.
  
  Do a search for my keywords on google. My little ol
  blog post on that comes up #9.
  
  Do you know where the very first result with any of those keywords
  in the domain comes up on google? #16.
  
  Nuff said. The power of blogspot is pretty good.
  
  Okay, I am anything but a newbie, but come on. Your competition
  is better than me and they could give a flying squirrel about keywords
  in domains.
  
  The moral of the story is, don't fret over domain names because something
  like hotfrog.com will kick your butt. hotfrog is neither hot nor frog.
  
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bigcat1967

14 years ago

You don't need keywords in a domain. Totally bogus.

I agree that you don't need KWs in a domain - but hey - it doesn't hurt. For me - when I do look for a domain name, I do try to find something that matches with the KWs I'm going after. If I can't get it - so be it. If I can - I'll buy it.

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waqyum

14 years ago

I think its good to have keyword in domain.It has always worked for me.This way its easier to show in the first page of Google.

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neil1976

14 years ago

I think your choice is fine. You can get if available these domains.

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Morpheo

14 years ago

LCD-Monitor.com is actually a pretty good domain so I'd go with that (I realize it's hypothetical). Don't get a domain with more than 1 hyphen. Here's how to really make an objective decision: look up the monthly exact match traffic for both domains in Google's Keyword Tool. What gets more searches, LCD Monitor, or Best LCD Monitor? Go with the one that gets searched more. Google treats hyphens like spaces, so that's not a big issue.

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aslam786

14 years ago

Hello,

The lcd-monitor.com is best, it will help you lot in Yahoo and Bing SERP and as well as in Google, So buy lcd-monitor.com this like domain.

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321sitemonitor.com

14 years ago

Dear,

Firstly find out the domain which is actually available. If you don't find it with .com then go for any other TLD's.

There are many webmasters who just keep away the domain with them and do nothing but waits for someone to pay them high for that.

Use the one which you think contains your keywords and don't worry about TLD's.

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knowing25 14 years ago

For me, if the domain i looking for is not available, i would better to try another variation with 2/3 keyword, depend on many factors.
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