NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google

Re:NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google by garrett_smith on Friday April 20, 2012 @12:36PM (#3868619)

I predict the SEO circle jerk will out them soon for begging, borrowing and or buying links. Way to blow up their spot.

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Re:NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google by chrisguitarguy on Friday April 20, 2012 @12:47PM (#3868667)

It's not going to matter. Godaddy already has about 100x the external links that NameCheap does (according to SEOmoz[1] and Majestic SEO[2]). If NameCheap moved up, it was for reasons other than external links.

1. http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.godaddy...

2. https://www.majesticseo.com/reports/compare-domain-backlink-...

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Re:NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google by Osiris on Friday April 20, 2012 @12:55PM (#3868702)

GoDaddy also has north of 50 million domains registered versus 3 million for Namecheap. If I understand correctly, GoDaddy doesn't make any (or very little) of domain sales, it's the other services like hosting, email, etc that generate the revenue.

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Re:NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google by joelrunyon on Friday April 20, 2012 @12:58PM (#3868714)

How much GoDaddy charges for domains has little to do with their SEO ranking.

They do use it as a loss-leader because most people starting a new site search for domain names over hosting when starting out.

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