Is it harder to rank a domain with no keyword in it?
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The question is in my post title.
I've recently started a website, in a semi-competitive niche (not as competitive as IM or weight loss etc). However, this time I went with a short, 5 letter unique name. It does not mean anything, it's just an easy to remember, brandable name.
I'm working with someone on this project and the name they've come up with is something they hope to brand and sort of present as a character on the website that gives out pertinent information related to the niche.
All the on-page and off-page SEO efforts will be done.
The site has been indexed for about 2 weeks, and I've got close to a 150 initial backlinks mostly via blog commenting and directory submissions. Majority do have keywords in anchor, though some do not, since some places require you to have the website name as anchor.
Still, I am not seeing but 3 visitors a day on this site via Google. The site is nowhere to be found within even the first 10 or 20 pages for the keywords in question. I'm hoping that will change as we get more backlinks and stuff.
So, would you say it is MUCH harder getting such a domain to rank in top 3 for main keywords?
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