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Can you rank for a keyword not in your domain?

by Branlan17
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Ok, well I know you CAN... but I guess my question is how difficult is it. I'm currently ranking for the keyword "always feeling tired" which is in my domain name, but I want to rank for "why am i always tired" as well, as it gets a fair number of searches. Should I just optimize my page for that keyword as well and then use anchor text to get the job done?
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  • Profile picture of the author jverley
    It's easy enough to rank without the keyword in your domain name. Having the keyword in the domain name helps a little, but I would lose any sleep over it. (Especially if you're going to be doing any kind of link building)
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  • Profile picture of the author ArticlePrince
    Yes, of course you can :-) Life would be very difficult if you had to buy a new domain for every keyword. Now, if this is a great keyword (7500+ exact searches), i would try to use it at least once on every page, to help your site rank for it. Don't go overboard, just slip it in where it makes sense. Write an article with it, submit it everywhere point to your site, make a video; submit it everywhere, you'll rank for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ShaneRQR
    Absolutely you can!
    Simply look at the results for pretty much any random keyword you can think of. Most of the time, the top spots are actually not occupied by exact-match-keyword URLs.

    Also, remember the famous "Click Here" example. Adobe flash and acrobat rank nr. 1 for the keyword "click here", even though those words are not featured anywhere on the ranking pages.
    In this particular case, it's all in the anchor texts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Branlan17
    Cool thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author akki313
    Yea.. There should be no problem in that.. Presence of keyword in domain name is just an advantage but there is no such necessity to have keyword in domain name to rank higher in big G..
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  • Profile picture of the author Branlan17
    It's kind of crazy... I had a site that's 2 weeks old and it's on page one of Google at spot 5 for my in-domain keywords... and it's stuck there for 5+ days now : )
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    • Profile picture of the author aaramire
      Originally Posted by Branlan17 View Post

      It's kind of crazy... I had a site that's 2 weeks old and it's on page one of Google at spot 5 for my in-domain keywords... and it's stuck there for 5+ days now : )
      Yea I usually get my domains with my target keyword to rank in the first page if the competition analysis is right. Its relatively easy if there are less than 50k competing pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author warriorkay
    As the others here have said - Of course, you can,
    if you do the OTHER aspects of SEO right,

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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Strange question.

      Do you know what warriorforum.com ranks for?

      SEO is about what you do to a website.
      Domains don't get ranked. Websites do.

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