Hi, I was just wondering if domains affected how the website ranked in SERPs. Should I be choosing a very keyword rich domain in order to get a better ranking, or does it not matter? Regards, Will
The smaller amount of characters the better. Make sure their words and reading the domain is the same as reading it, i.e. You have snow removal service so domain can be snowremoval.com or removesnow.com
Yep, too many keywords will make it useless, but for keywords consisting of 1 or 2 actual words it's perfect, you don't even need a dash, bluewidgets.com is fine for "blue widgets" as well as blue-widgets.com. Most important, the title must match, make sure it's "Blue Widgets xxxxxxxxxxx Blue Widgets xxxxxxxxxx". Try to repeat it in the title once, not twice, just once. This advantage of having keywords in the domain name tends to become the more unimportant the more competitive a term is, but in the low to medium competition range, it's great for fast and stable top rankings.
i bought some roses for my girl online last night, and i started by searching at google. the results were littered lots of long dash names that were keyword-rich. i was impressed actually
I just happened to read the original research paper from google founders on google search engine. Every web page has a unique id called DocID and all the text from that page will be parsed for words along with the information like font size, placement etc. So, i think domain name is just insignificant part in SEO. Again the research paper may gone through changes and they may have added the domain name in their equation. You never know. link dev
even the domain creation date and expiration date matter fyi extra weight is applied for old names and names that are reg'd well into the future
False!!! They do not matter AT ALL. What matters is for how long they have been in the google's index.