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Does Having A Good Domain Improve Ranks?

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    Does Having A Good Domain Improve Ranks?

    A few days back I found myself in a sort of SEO guru group (I find it useful joining these groups as I am able to get a lot of info). One guy mentioned that he was struggling to rank in his nice, which is a very low competition keyword. Some guy in the group suggested getting a domain name containing, or at least relating to his key word. This created a huge debate in the group and no one could really decide if having a domain name relating to your nice is really important for ranking.
    Now I know that the domain ending is important and some endings have more authority than others in the Search Engine's algorithm, but do you think the actual domain name is important. If I make two identical sites in the shoe niche would shoeforall.com rank better/ worse/ the same as gardenplant.com ?

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    anwebservices

    anwebservices

    If no one could really decide if having a domain name relating to your nice is really important for ranking, then this is not any kind of SEO gurus. There is no guessing about this matter when it comes to SEO. Having main keywords of niche your website is, in your domain name is very important factor when it comes to creating quality SEO for your website. I bet, even people with lover skills know about this... So don't let them fool you ;)
    8 years ago

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    Lynne

    Lynne

    Harry this is exactly they type of thing I was thinking about when I said I hear so many contradicting things about working online.

    I believe that having your main keywords in your domain can make a difference to ranking your website. However I agree with everything that Mike has said, it is not the one main thing you should do. Ranking has so many different elements to it and your domain name is one small little thing. If do loads of all the small little things they all add up to good ranking.

    If you just choose a great domain name and do nothing else to optimize your site it will not help you at all.

    I think you need to decide on which things you will be focusing on to rank your website. There are also other things to take into account when you choose your domain name, like will you go for a dot com?

    The length of your domain name could also play a factor. I have heard shorter domain names rank better than long domain names.
    8 years ago

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