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I was wondering if a domain name would help your search in Google or any other search engine. If I bought http://www.sellingsignatures.com and someone searched selling signatures in a search engine would the domain name eventually be the first on the list?


Thanks again guys and gals

bbrian017
 
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The keywords in the domain name do in fact assist with ranking for that term. My understanding is that they are used as an important factor in the SE's algorythms but are not the only thing. Which proper optimization, a strong title, and good content, you should rank high for your term.
 
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This is great news for me then because I went and bought http://www.sellingsignatures.com in hopes that some day it would eventually be a great forwarding domain to my main site http://www.sigsell.com

How would I go about making sure that this is the case. Any suggestions on what I should develop at http://www.sellingsignatures.com maybe just a html page with a re direct when users land there? Also should I be doing the same for the rest of my domains that cover this Signature Market. At the current moment I have 7 domains that are all http://www.sigsell.com related :)
 
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I agree with DomainSpade.
 
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Can anyone help me to create a really great SEO html page that would get me to the top of Google Ranking. Just a simple one that would display a link to sigsell.com

This would be greatly appreciated!
 
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the keyword of domain is important to get a type in traffic. but it is not nessesary your site will be first on the google when people will search for selling signatures. To be first you need to OPTIMIZE it.
 
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yes can anyone help me to do this?
 
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Try xml-sitemaps.com.
 
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JacoH said:
Try xml-sitemaps.com.

This is what I'm getting using this page, now what should I do with it. I am also getting an error

he proxy server could not handle the request GET /2001/03/webdata/xsv.

Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/details-www.sigselling.com.html

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
      xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
            http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">

<url>
  <loc>http://www.sigselling.com/</loc>
  <priority>0.5</priority>
  <lastmod>2007-07-23T13:20:00+00:00</lastmod>
  <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
</urlset>
 
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If we helped you, then you'd not learn a thing. Here's a simple template that I've been using.

Some guy on sitepoint made this.

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
	<title>Example HTML/CSS Layout for brian by Dan Schulz</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
	<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
	<meta name="keywords" content="Keywords go here" />
	<meta name="description" content="A description of this page goes here." />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/screen.css" media="screen,projection" />
	<style type="text/css">
	
	* {												/* sets the margins and padding on everything to zero - these are the ONLY things that should be ever set with this "universal" selector */
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
	}

	html, body {
		height: 100%;								/* LEAVE THIS ALONE */
	}

	body {
		background: #EEE;
		color: #000;
		font: normal 14px/18px tahoma, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	}

	img {
		border: 0;									/* squashes a Firefox bug - yes even Firefox has bugs */
		vertical-align: bottom;						/* squashes an IE 5/6 bug */
	}

	#container {
		min-height:100%;
	}

	* html #container {
		height:100%;								/* IE 5.x and 6 treat height as min-height */
	}
		#header {
			background: #FCF;
			color: inherit;
			height: 80px;
			overflow: hidden;						/* this forces IE 5.x and 6 to treat height as HEIGHT */
		}

		#wrapper {									/* this is technically a "clearer-div" but I used it as a wrapper to allow for extra styling */
			float: left;
			padding-bottom: 32px;					/* set to height and margin on footer */
			width: 100%;							/* DO NOT TOUCH THIS - EVER */
		}
			#menu {
				background: #FCC;
				color: inherit;
				float: right;
				list-style: none;					/* removes the bullets from the list items */
				width: 150px;
			}
				#menu li {
					float: left;
					padding-bottom: 1px;
				}
					#menu a {
						background: #FCC;
						color: inherit;
						display: block;				/* lets you click anywhere on the link */
						padding: 4px 8px;
						text-decoration: none;		/* removes the underline from the links */
						width: 134px;				/* IE will mouseover highlight but not let you click link in 'non-text' area unless you set width */
					}

					* html #menu a {				/* Simplified Box Model Hack for IE 5/5.5 */
						width: 144px;				/* special value for IE 5/5.5 */
						w\idth: 134px				/* correct value for IE 6 and 7 */
					}

					#menu a:active,					/* sets background color for active, focus and hover states */
					#menu a:focus,
					#menu a:hover {
						background: #FF0;
						color: #000;
					}

			h1 {
				background: #FFF;
				clear: both;
				color: inherit;
				font-size: 1.75em;
				line-height: 1.8em;
				padding: 0 8px;
			}

			h2 {font-size: 1.5em;}
			h3 {font-size: 1.05em;}
			h4 {font-size: 0.95em;}
			h5 {font-size: 0.85em;}
			h6 {font-size: 0.75em;}
			
			#content {
				margin-right: 158px;
			}
				#content .section {
					background: #BCF;
					color: inherit;
					margin-bottom: 8px;
					padding: 0 8px;					/* sets left and right padding to 8px each */
				}
					#content p {
						padding-bottom: 8px;
					}

				#content h2 {
					border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
					margin-bottom: 8px;
					padding: 8px 0;
				}

		#footer {
			background: #8EF;
			color: inherit;
			float: left;							/* LEAVE THIS ALONE */
			font: normal 12px/16px tahoma, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
			margin-top: -32px;						/* pushes footer over the bottom padding on #container */
			padding: 8px 0;
			text-align: center;
			width: 100%;							/* LEAVE THIS ALONE */
		}

	</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
	<div id="header">
		<img src="/images/logo.png" width="300" height="80" alt="Web Site Logo" title="" />
	</div>
	<div id="wrapper">
		<h1>Web Page Title</h1>
		<ul id="menu">
			<li><a href="#">Menu Link</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Menu Link</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Menu Link</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Menu Link</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Menu Link</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Menu Link</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Menu Link</a></li>
		</ul>
		<div id="content">
			<div class="section">
				<h2>Section Title</h2>
				<p>
					Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In quis erat. Nulla auctor
					consectetuer erat. Sed est tellus, laoreet et, faucibus et, cursus ut, lectus. Nulla
					scelerisque, mi vel commodo consequat, turpis ligula congue ligula, eget
					pellentesque turpis augue quis diam. Nulla facilisi. Etiam commodo quam in metus.
					Etiam nec nisi ac nisl molestie fermentum. Donec ligula ipsum, venenatis in, egestas
					vel, commodo bibendum, est.
				</p>
				<p>
					Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In quis erat. Nulla auctor
					consectetuer erat. Sed est tellus, laoreet et, faucibus et, cursus ut, lectus. Nulla
					scelerisque, mi vel commodo consequat, turpis ligula congue ligula, eget
					pellentesque turpis augue quis diam. Nulla facilisi. Etiam commodo quam in metus.
					Etiam nec nisi ac nisl molestie fermentum. Donec ligula ipsum, venenatis in, egestas
					vel, commodo bibendum, est.
				</p>
			</div>
			<div class="section">
				<h2>Section Title</h2>
				<p>
					Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In quis erat. Nulla auctor
					consectetuer erat. Sed est tellus, laoreet et, faucibus et, cursus ut, lectus. Nulla
					scelerisque, mi vel commodo consequat, turpis ligula congue ligula, eget
					pellentesque turpis augue quis diam. Nulla facilisi. Etiam commodo quam in metus.
					Etiam nec nisi ac nisl molestie fermentum. Donec ligula ipsum, venenatis in, egestas
					vel, commodo bibendum, est.
				</p>
				<p>
					Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In quis erat. Nulla auctor
					consectetuer erat. Sed est tellus, laoreet et, faucibus et, cursus ut, lectus. Nulla
					scelerisque, mi vel commodo consequat, turpis ligula congue ligula, eget
					pellentesque turpis augue quis diam. Nulla facilisi. Etiam commodo quam in metus.
					Etiam nec nisi ac nisl molestie fermentum. Donec ligula ipsum, venenatis in, egestas
					vel, commodo bibendum, est.
				</p>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
	<p>
		Copyright ยฉ 2006-2007, The Monster Under the Bed. All Rights to Scare Unsuspecting
		Children Reserved.
	</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
 
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If we helped you, then you'd not learn a thing

I've always been a hands on guy :hehe:
 
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You will get it : )
 
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Philleh said:
If we helped you, then you'd not learn a thing.
Code:
He's right. You need to learn how to do SEO yourself. The template may help you initially, but when you want to add content, and dont know anything about SEO, you'll have problems.

With reagards to the domain name, I personally belive that it has some significant importance, although if you have more than 3 "-" seperating words, i.e low-cost-pet-medications, as your domain name, you will most likely be penalized by the Search engines.

Take a look at some popular search terms on the internet. Most of top results contain the keywords in the domain name.
 
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BTS said:
[ although if you have more than 3 "-" seperating words, i.e low-cost-pet-medications, as your domain name, you will most likely be penalized by the Search engines.

Even if it has quality content? Can you suggest any links to research that would support that idea?
 
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Will too many hyphens in your domain name will cause the search engines to label your site as spam?

No. This is a myth caused by many spam sites using multiple hyphens in their domain name. Many people have wrongly concluded that only spam sites would need to use more then one hyphen. The truth of the matter is that having more then one hyphen in your domain name will not result in your site being penalized. The more likely scenario is that having multiple hyphens will result in a flag being set at the search engines and a manual review being done to see if the site is spammy or legitimate.

One thing to keep in mind when choosing a domain name with hyphens in it: you users. When using a domain with multiple hyphens you make it more difficult for your human visitors to remember and type in your domain name. Domain names with more then one hyphen should only be used if you are attempting to market your website through the search engines. If you plan on doing offline advertising, including word of mouth, one hyphen or less is recommended.

From Sitepoint SEO FAQ
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182915
 
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