Seo changing for google ?

1. Dot com is not given that importance it used to get.
2. Also keyword in url is not that important now.

Although these 2 points still reamain important but not as it used to be earlier :
http://www.jimmythakkar.com/blog/seo-is-changing-for-google

Does anyone else feel the same or is seeing similar results ?


regards,
ASHISH THAKKAR

 

Nice information from you and Thanks

 

@puneet:

Top level or low level domains do not affect ranking, its the content on the site that matters.

Keyword rich URLs do matter!!!

 

I think keywords are still important as they use to be in earlier days.

 

do you gusy think Google will give major SEO scores for the new domains coming out next year using other alphabets while searching regional using the alphabet we use?

 

I think keywords will always be important, not sure about the domain name thing...but seems as many places as you can stick your "keyword" seems to help more, but who knows how things may change.

 

I think the domain still pulls alot of weight, as well as content of course assuming your site is properly optimized. Since the latest update, google did not weed out all the sites that bought ton of inbounds just before the update which has caused their positions to rise.

Example: I have a client that has been top 10 for over a year and after the update, he dropped to #17. Giving he is a client, i have watched every site in the top 10 for quite a while and everyone go bumped. Some of the sites that are not top 10 had 40 to 60 quality backlinks before the update. After the update, they started showing 200+ backlinks... this moved them into the top 10 unfortunatly and all i can hope is that they get flagged soon as a link buyer and get bumped back down.

 

whatever be it,the heart of SEO is still keyword anchored backlinks from varied c-class IPs and non-linkfarms.

 

thats is well done .

 

keywords always important in our domain url..

 

Please don't take this personally, but IMO you have not done sufficient testing to draw those conclusions. A couple of searches are not enough. You would have to do a detailed test of probably twenty or more keyword phrases to arrive at a reasonable conclusion.

In your blog's example, point #1 is very likely because of too many dashes. It is well known and generally accepted than more that 3 dashes in a URL starts to hurt a site's rank because G suspects it is spam. You conclude that the reason the site doesn't rank is that keywords in the URL don't matter when most likely, the reason is dashes.

/*tom*/

 

There are two urls , one with dashes and other without dashes.

A little more reseach is needed i agree. This is why i also asked if anyone else saw something like that ?

Thanks for comments.


regards,
ASHISH THAKKAR

 

hey..but the final authenticity is google..so till google announce anything regarding this, I think we should not assume all these..

 

I think Google should remain unchanged.

 

Keywords in the domain influence positions, but in subdomain or in URL on mine don't influence.