Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone

Re:Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone by redsymbol on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:40PM (#609104)

Anyone have recent experience in whether search keywords in the domain name itself matter?

Separately, what about subdomains?

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Re:Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone by lamnk on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:28PM (#609201)

It's a myth with keywords in the domain name. You can use keyword subdomains and it worked just fine. My rule is that you should have at least one keyword in the URL. And the URL should not be longer than 15 words (incl. domain, subdomain, path)

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Re:Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone by mistermann on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:05PM (#609153)

Yes, I am very interested in this exact same question.

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Re:Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone by redorb on Thursday May 14, 2009 @05:04PM (#609585)

I find the keyword in the domain does help, but it really isn't worth chasing to the point of having a stupid name.. What you really want is an "exact phrase match"

I.e. "On sale laptops" gets searched for 19.9k times a month https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

and position 1 is likely to get nearly 40% (if not more) of those clicks http://www.jaygeiger.com/index.php/2008/11/05/percentage-cli...

Thus if you can own OnSaleLaptops.com you stand to get around 10-30k hits/mo surely you can monetize that :/

hope these answers were ok, they are just my experience.

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