Does it really matter if your domain name contains words related to your niche? For instance: If I have a company that builds houses would having my website named, www.housebuilding.com Code (markup): help with my search results on Google?
Depends how good a SEO you are, generally yes it will help but a skilled SEO doesn't have to worry so much.
No your domain name is not the most important criteria for search engines. Backlinks and content are much, much more important. Keywords in your domain name do help your search engine rankings though. Some search engines may give a small rankings boost if your keyword is in your domain name. Another benefit is that your keyword gets included in all of your backlinks, even if they force you to use your company or website name. So your backlinks directly help that specific keyword more. Another non-ranking benefit is that it may help increase your search engine click through rate. This is because the search engines would bold the keyword in your domain which draws more attention to it.
This is what I think now. I have domains indexed on goolge specifically related to my niche, but not even in the top ten pages of relevant keywords associated with the domain name. For instance, I have www.southfloridadesigns.com But if i google south florida designs I am not there. I also have www.failingbusinesses.com and when I google failing businesses I am first... And the crazy thing about it is, I don't have any good content on failing businesses, nor have I marketed it or tried to drive traffic to it. No SEO work has been performed whatsoever. So this confused me a bit...
yes, it matters to an extent. it is not the end of the world if your domain name does not keyword rich, but every little bit helps in improving your positioning within the serps. it is just one of many factors that can help improve the strength of a website.
You're not in the index for www.southfloridadesigns.com. The site was registered on 3/11/09. Once you're indexed you'll be on the first page.
It helps SEO, but can hurt branding. A mix of a brandable URL and SEO friendly url is ideal. In the end, everything adds up in optimization.
To me its saying that it does, i have a new site ranking well that i didn't expect to see anywhere in the serps, its got 2 keywords, i believe it helps.
you type site:www.southfloridadesigns.com into google. you can do it with any of your domains, just change the website. get some backlinks and then you'll be indexed. you're not gonna get any traffic off of the keyword "south florida designs", so it doesn't really matter much anyway for that term.
WHAT??? I am indexed on google then. When I type the domain www.southfloridadesigns.com I am first under the results...
check Google for site:www.domain.com ..if it fetches the pages from ur site...then its assumed to be indexed
It definitely helps SEO purposes, but that may not necessarily be the most important element of your site or product. By having a generic name associated with your product, you really lose out on building an identity for your website.
to get ur site pages indexed quickly..just create a xml sitemap for ur site and submit it 2 Google through 'webmaster tools account'...whithin a week u'll get 2 see the pages from ur site indexed in Google BTW having a word related 2 ur niche i.e ur keywrd in domain name really matters for following 2 reasons: 1) when ur site will get a backlink from directory listings as www.domain.com...if u hav targeted keywrd in domain, it will automatically work as a backlink with keywrd rich anchor text..no need to be obsessed with anchor texts ne more 2) abov will definitely help u get the top search rankings for ur keywrd...thereafter when ull be in top search ranking, a keywrd will b highlighted in domain name in SERP snippets as an exact match..making it felt more trustworthy for visitors..high click through rate..win win 4u