How important is your domain name?

[espo702]

hypothetically can't the domain name be anything and just kill the SEO on the key words? Isn't the power of a brand better than having a site that has your key words in the domain name?

 

[JB Lions]

"hypothetically can't the domain name be anything and just kill the SEO on the key words?"

Yes, jobs = monster.com

"Isn't the power of a brand better than having a site that has your key words in the domain name?"

You can go either way, or have both. Shoes.com, Cooking.com, Diapers.com, Art.com, Calendars.com, Magazines.com, Golfballs.com etc. Those are well known sites with the major keywords they're targeting. Of course keywords like that will cost you an arm and a leg or aren't even available in the first place.

You pretty much can brand anything. The shorter the better, the easier to spell the better, put it with an extension the public is familiar with.

 

[espo702]

"hypothetically can't the domain name be anything and just kill the SEO on the key words?"

Yes, jobs = monster.com

"Isn't the power of a brand better than having a site that has your key words in the domain name?"

You can go either way, or have both. Shoes.com, Cooking.com, Diapers.com, Art.com, Calendars.com, Magazines.com, Golfballs.com etc. Those are well known sites with the major keywords they're targeting. Of course keywords like that will cost you an arm and a leg or aren't even available in the first place.

You pretty much can brand anything. The shorter the better, the easier to spell the better, put it with an extension the public is familiar with.

Those domains are premium domains and the normal user would not have access to those. Domains such as the ones you listed already get x amount of unique visitors per month and SEO isn't really required.

 

[JB Lions]

I know, you can make it happen with any domain. Examples I gave above, brandables, keyword domains with more than one word, whatever.

 

[alien51]

hypothetically can't the domain name be anything and just kill the SEO on the key words?

Yes, it can be anything.

Examples: "Reddit" "Twitter" "Agoda" "Hulu" "Plurk" -- these are domain names that don't mean anything to most humans.

Isn't the power of a brand better than having a site that has your key words in the domain name?

Yes, of course.

The major reason why they pick keyword domains, is to save on Marketing Dollars because your website supposedly gets ranked on top of search engines, by way of the so-called exact-match-domain algorithm.

 

[Name Trader]

But mean a lot to aliens?

 

[alien51]

Unbelievably, yes.

Including the word boobs, it means thank you.

 

[espo702]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I appreciate it.

 

[ProSence]

Domain name is helpful in SEO too.

If you are going to optimizing any regional keyword then try to find regional extension with exact keyword if possible, it gives benefit.

 

[justeatshilpa]

Domain name is very useful every where....