using "e" at the start of a domain name

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Market Samurai decided to work today, joy.

Anyway, I was using the find domain name feature, and it's stuck an "e" at the beginning of the domain, for a 94% density.

Is this a good, or bad idea?

What's the downside here? I'm thinking, if I want to sell the site, and the domain name looks a bit crap?

Or are there SEO related problems with this?
#search engine optimization #domain #start
  • I'm not entirely sure as I haven't tested this myself however I have seen a lot more people doing this lately. If yourkeyword.com is taken they will usually just add an x at the the end of the domain so it's yourkeywordx.com. I do a fair bit of local and niche SEO and I have seen more and more of these domains creeping up in the top results so I do think it works.

    When it comes to selling the site the person is not going to care what the domain says. All they are going to care about is where the website is actually ranking. You can have a keyword match domain that looks nice and is not ranking anywhere or you could have one of these domains that ranks on the top page of Google for the keyword. Which would you rather?
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    • Cheers, I don't care what the domain looks like, as long as it ranks.

      Usually I'd put a - in there, but that's gone. An x at the end, interesting.
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    • Seems like today's hottest topic is about EMD(Exact Match Domain). Though it's actually not a new topic, but more and more websites with keyword contained showed up in the first page, it's actually a little weired.
  • actually now are very popular letters like "e" or "i" ( i from internet) like on my profile name
    look at iPage.com a very good hosting company - Long version InternetPage
    Short one- iPage
    sounds great and is easy to remember.. in my opinion this letters can help a lot , but you must be careful with wich keyword you use.

    Cheers !
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    • if you put an s at the end of a domain, can this alter your keyword strength, if it makes the keyword plural?

      ie,

      bestcar.com to bestcars.com

      You're targeting "best car" has this now been changed to "best cars"

      Or will it still rank for "best car"
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  • It certainly worked for "ecommerce" ;-) Its kinda like sticking an "i" infront of something for Apples ;-)
  • Yeah, I would back up the comment that a lot of these are figuring on page one lately. Maybe the EMD has had it's day a little, or maybe good SEO makes up for an EMD in the long run. What DOES seem to be a little tougher is getting pesky EMDs OFF page one. They just seem to stick like flies. But if I saw no or few EMDs on page one but they are still taken, these days I would go for a partial EMD, couldn't care less really.
  • If I were you, I'd just stick to EMD domains.

    Non-EMDs are a waste of time, in my humble opinion cause it takes so much more time to backlink to get them ranked.

    If it's a non-EMD, you might as well get a better sounding (and shorter) domain name that people can remember well and create a big site.

    Source: Experience


    Calfred
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    • Two of my top 5 earning sites are not EMD sites, one of them made me $45 today alone on adsense. That one uses three keywords that I used to rank for three highly searched for terms

      Sort of like bluewoolsweater.com can rank well for blue sweater, wool sweater, blue wool sweater

      Yes it takes a bit longer, but not a total waste

      Also one of my top 5 sites just has a modifier on the end, say the keyword was used cars, my site would be usedcarsblog.com
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    • I guess that warriorforum.com thing just did not work out.
      Ditto for wikipedia, amazon, zillow, zoosk, ebay, kayak, uh...yeah.

      Problem with the e and i, is that most of the good ones are taken.
      I got one quite by accident at a good time. e and i at the front
      of domains are golden.

      If you can get one, grab it.

      Not sure where people are learning stuff, but better for the rest of us!

      Paul
  • Does it really take that much longer to rank if you are not using a keyword in the domain? I am using a domain that has no keywords but it does tell google and my visitors what the site is about. Pretty much there is no search traffic around the domain. Should I still go for it?
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    • I think it's a good idea and have been doing something like that lately. I've been putting a "u" at the end of the domain as in "mydomainu", and have had good success ranking these. I think an x or another letter would work too. It seems as though the search engines disregard the prefix or suffix. As far as selling the domain I don't think it would be any problem as long as the site is ranking well.
  • EMD is more chance of getting ranked and will be ranked higher is it not? but then adding a letter or 2 on the domain seem harmless to me... as long as google picks up the main keyword?
  • I'd say that dashes are probably a better alternative to putting a letter at the beginning or end of the domain.

    Ex: my-domain-name.com vs. emydomainname.com

    I've seen plenty of dashed domains rank on page one while doing my research.
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    I usually haven't tried it before. It's quite better that if the domains are not available for the targeted keyword, better put any single letter at the end. This is what I'm doing for my client when it comes to keyword research and suggesting domain names to be bought for his niche sites.
  • I prefer having a letter or word at the end of the domain, but an e in font is fine.
    you can change the preferences before or after a word in market samurai by clicking on edit button

    cheers
    Arturo
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