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]]> Comment on The Pure Power of SEO by joyce http://seoblog.microwebmasters.com/seo/the-pure-power-of-seo/comment-page-1/#comment-25 joyce Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:29:22 +0000 http://seoblog.microwebmasters.com/seo/the-pure-power-of-seo/#comment-25 Laura: I think I'm the one who recommended this person contact you. I was sure you would be able to help her and you did! Thank you. Laura: I think I’m the one who recommended this person contact you. I was sure you would be able to help her and you did! Thank you.

]]> Comment on SEO – How to choose the right url. by Laura http://seoblog.microwebmasters.com/seo/seo-how-to-choose-the-right-url/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Laura Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:26:31 +0000 http://seoblog.microwebmasters.com/2008/01/26/seo-how-to-choose-the-right-url/#comment-2 The argument on the forum that the author of this post is referring to centered on whether Google in particular parsed (broke up and attached meaning to) domain names that are run together. The "expert" on the forum claimed that it was absurd to think that Google did - offered no evidence, just kept saying "Nope." It is provably true that they do. I have a domain name that uses keywords that are NOT used within the site. Because the domain names within the site were not available, so we went with something similar, but we do not backlink the site using anchor text with the domain name words, nor do we use that phrase in the site. Yet if you take the words in the domain name, break them apart, and Google them, the site comes up number 1 in the search results - ahead of sites with those two words in the title tag or in the content. Google obviously DOES parse keywords in the domain, and does assign importance to them. Probably the best way to get a good domain name is to combine a branding word with a keyword - makes it easy to GET the domain name, easy to brand it so your visitors remember it, and has some keyword influence. Choose a business name by both message and keyword, and it goes right into a domain - like Firelight Web Studio, or Buddy Web Works - Both contain a branding name, and an important keyword, and both can be easily obtained as domain names because nobody else has that combination. A good domain name won't get you to the top without anything else. But it does reinforce the keywords in your site and is one more point in your favor. The argument on the forum that the author of this post is referring to centered on whether Google in particular parsed (broke up and attached meaning to) domain names that are run together. The “expert” on the forum claimed that it was absurd to think that Google did – offered no evidence, just kept saying “Nope.” It is provably true that they do. I have a domain name that uses keywords that are NOT used within the site. Because the domain names within the site were not available, so we went with something similar, but we do not backlink the site using anchor text with the domain name words, nor do we use that phrase in the site. Yet if you take the words in the domain name, break them apart, and Google them, the site comes up number 1 in the search results – ahead of sites with those two words in the title tag or in the content. Google obviously DOES parse keywords in the domain, and does assign importance to them.

Probably the best way to get a good domain name is to combine a branding word with a keyword – makes it easy to GET the domain name, easy to brand it so your visitors remember it, and has some keyword influence. Choose a business name by both message and keyword, and it goes right into a domain – like Firelight Web Studio, or Buddy Web Works – Both contain a branding name, and an important keyword, and both can be easily obtained as domain names because nobody else has that combination.

A good domain name won’t get you to the top without anything else. But it does reinforce the keywords in your site and is one more point in your favor.

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