Stop words in domain name

I did a quick search, but was unable to find the answer to the following:

Do stop words in the domain name strongly affect SERPS? I know in an ideal world, I can get a domain name without a stop word, but at the moment, I cant : / so I'm throwing in a stop word to get something relevant.

Any ideas on this?

 

Google normally ignores such words.. (Like, a, for, to etc) They not gonna help you in anyways.
You can go with that, but you need to optimize your pages without that stop word in keyword.

 

I don't think it has too much effect

 

i think its no more effect....

 

I never register a domain name with stop words. I don't have to . there are many ways to register a good domain.

 

I dont think it should affect, never done it before. This time I will try using it when I buy my next domain

 

Yep, follow this guys advice. There are still good domains out there, use your head. Good Luck.

 

Why would you like a domain with stop words?

 

First i would think it might "stop" all your search results and will have this effect for all your hard work for SEO and that is ..... "STOP" lol !!!!!! so better not to have it

 

Sometimes it makes sense to use them. If you want your domain to be a phrase, "saltandpepper.com" grammatically makes more sense than "saltpepper.com", and will also be used more easily for return type-in visits.

 

I really do not believe such things are even important nowadays because Google is paying attention to the uniqueness of the contents and how many backlinks the websites and domain names have actually instead of calculating which terms have been used. Such matters might be important on Yahoo and Bing but the Google's case is completely different and you can find a lot of top ranking sites using such words as parts of their domains or the sites which never contain anything even related to their niches.

 

don't worry about it. A stop word does NOT mean google will not index that page.
take, that, the, who are all stop words... but if you do a google search for "take that" or "the who" both show domains with those words at the top
ie takethat.com and thewho.com

 

I don't prefer stop words in domain name, and if you proper optimize your site, you can get better result.

 

I do know that I can find the words but including stop...which words Google normally ignores can anybody tell me that...

 

using the some of extremely effective words while others are offensively unethical.

 

Very true!...I doubt about .info domains and but stop words really don'y affect...there are many popular sites having stop words in domain...in fact many complaint board sites, community forums etc usually have stop words to describe better about their objectives through domain.

 

I've never heard the term "stop word" before. Please explain?

 

May be its better to use a hyphen as a stop word.

 

i dont think it has effect.

 

IMO - if you don't get domain names without stop words, you can go.

Regarding heading tags, titles - if the stop word makes meaning ful sentence the go for it. for eg: "ipods in UK" is more meaningful than "ipods UK", may be it is search crawler friendly and it does't guantee that if you rank 1st place for "ipods UK", you also ranks for "ipods in UK", "ipods at UK'. There are millions of other factors to decide SERP.