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General Advice for SEO

by teamroyster
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Hi all,

I'm very new to this and appreciate all the help I can get.

Firstly, I had identified a keyphrase for my particular industry. The Google searches are a minimum - 600 per month - but the competition is also at a minimum. Ideal for my first SEO project.

The keyphrase is 3 words in length and I would obviously like to incorporate them within my URL. The majority of the domain suffixes for this particular keyphrase are taken - although none of the sites appear to be operating, it's mostly just domain parking.

My first two questions are:

Does .NET or ORG.UK or some of the more obscure domain rank less than .COM or .CO.UK?

Does separating my URL with '-' rank less than a domain with no separators? keyword1keyword2keyword3 Vs. keyword1-keyword2-keyword3 ?

In terms of backlinks I'm fairly confident that I will be able to successfully post on Blogs and drum up some interest as it's a very specific industry. This isn't a section that concerns me (yet!).

Two things that worry me are elements that are out with my control, domain age & traffic.

My domain will obviously be new when I initially register it. Does this have any bearing on my rankings?

You can't generate traffic until you are well placed on search engine rankings, but if you can't get placed until you have traffic then you are stuck in a Catch22! So does traffic matter in search engine rankings?

Thank you very much for any time spent replying!

Kind regards,

Team Royster.
#advice #general #seo
  • Profile picture of the author teamroyster
    Not much interest in this thread!
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  • Profile picture of the author benintheworld
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    Whats the keyword?
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  • Profile picture of the author warrior495
    if you are targeting the uk .co.uk should be a great extension for you.

    search engines tend to treat the main extensions com / net / org type extensions the same.

    wordwordword is the same as word-word-word from what I understand but it looks spammy in my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author shubham
    HI,
    use .com/.net/.org..
    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author IM Lover
    I took a look at the SEO section earlier and remember that it mentioned .com was better, however it did suggest that it would not make much difference so you should be fine, I am just about to start up some mini Niche sites for Amazon products so will be in the same boat as you buddy.

    Lee
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  • Profile picture of the author FrankBowman
    Originally Posted by teamroyster View Post

    Hi all,

    I'm very new to this and appreciate all the help I can get.

    Firstly, I had identified a keyphrase for my particular industry. The Google searches are a minimum - 600 per month - but the competition is also at a minimum. Ideal for my first SEO project.

    The keyphrase is 3 words in length and I would obviously like to incorporate them within my URL. The majority of the domain suffixes for this particular keyphrase are taken - although none of the sites appear to be operating, it's mostly just domain parking.

    My first two questions are:

    Does .NET or ORG.UK or some of the more obscure domain rank less than .COM or .CO.UK?
    No a .NEt or .org should be fine

    Does separating my URL with '-' rank less than a domain with no separators? ]keyword1keyword2keyword3 Vs. keyword1-keyword2-keyword3 ?

    In my experience with such a small niche, I don't think it would matter. If you had a KW with 50,000 monthly searches or even 20,000, I would say hyphens don't help for sure.

    In terms of backlinks I'm fairly confident that I will be able to successfully post on Blogs and drum up some interest as it's a very specific industry. This isn't a section that concerns me (yet!).

    Two things that worry me are elements that are out with my control, domain age & traffic.

    My domain will obviously be new when I initially register it. Does this have any bearing on my rankings?

    You can't generate traffic until you are well placed on search engine rankings, but if you can't get placed until you have traffic then you are stuck in a Catch22! So does traffic matter in search engine rankings?

    Thank you very much for any time spent replying!

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    Build backlinks----increase ranking----increased ranking = more traffic

    Your only competition is what on page 1 anyway. Being anywhere else for such a seldomly searched term won't help. So analyze whats on page 1 and do what you have to do to outrank.......

    EMD
    Exact match Titile
    Good original content
    Lots of backlinks

    Hope this helps

    happy new year
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  • Profile picture of the author SamWilsonLaw
    A lot of factors here. I would need to do quite a bit of guess work to give specific answers. Don't know for sure how the secret search engine algorithms work. Others who give SEO advice are probably in the same boat here too.

    But... Generally yes... just test it to find out.
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    • Profile picture of the author IM Lover
      Originally Posted by SamWilsonLaw View Post

      A lot of factors here. I would need to do quite a bit of guess work to give specific answers. Don't know for sure how the secret search engine algorithms work. Others who give SEO advice are probably in the same boat here too.

      But... Generally yes... just test it to find out.
      Hi Sam

      Check out the videos within my Signature, they will help you out greatly.

      Lee
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  • Profile picture of the author teamroyster
    Thank you for the replies guys.
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