Timeline for SEO: Integrating keywords with domain names
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| Mar 2, 2015 at 15:43 | comment | added | closetnoc | @nickpish The entire SEO industry short of a few, are people trying to carve out a niche for themselves in the SEO world. This would be fine if the industry was fact based. You have to remember that these folks are blackbox testing Google. There are some clues- especially if you know the industry from the inside and the technologies used. However, most are marketing people or hackers of some sort and the speculation can be all over the place. Worse yet, people parrot what they read and almost nothing is ever deleted or updated. Google is responsible for intentionally muddy waters. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:33 | comment | added | Helping Hands | @closetnoc - Ohh. I see... | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:18 | comment | added | nickpish | @closetnoc I certainly appreciate the frankness, and also find it deeply upsetting that not only tons of hacks out there are offering trash advice, they're actually often getting paid for it. While I realize content and good design should always be the primary points of focus, I'm also curious to learn what other practices might exist to assist SEO from a technical standpoint, if that makes sense. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:16 | comment | added | closetnoc | @nickpish Confucius says- keep it simple. But what the h311 does he know? | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:13 | comment | added | closetnoc | @nickpish You are right. Also, he could have damaged his SEO score too. It is always wiser to have one domain k1ck @$$ than to spread efforts out amongst many. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:11 | comment | added | closetnoc | @nickpish SEO and designers see this all the time these days. People read all this SEO junk and believe it wholesale. It is a shame really. It leaves the rest of us to clean up the mess. I appreciate your concern and asking the question here. I tend to be rather frank on these issues. These answers I do not want to soft peddle. I hate all the old and often very wrong SEO advice out there from all the SEO peddlers trying to carve out a niche for themselves. I do what I can to set the record straight. If you can stand a bit of frankness, this is an excellent place for SEO questions. Honest! | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:07 | comment | added | nickpish | thanks-- I know he'll be disappointed, but the knowledge will definitely save him money in the future. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:06 | comment | added | closetnoc | @nickpish For what it is worth, I realize that my last comment really should have been in the answer all along. I edited the answer for future users. You can always point your client to this page if it helps support any arguments you make. Sorry for the bad news. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:05 | comment | added | nickpish | @closetnoc no worries, I appreciate the response; while I didn't buy-- or even suggest buying-- all the domains, I certainly didn't realize that buying up keyword-oriented domains is considered a black-hat trick. I've focused on designing the best site I can with respect to content and semantics, and did think the extra domains could potentially help knock up the results a bit, but if not that's definitely good to know. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:04 | history | edited | closetnoc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2015 at 7:01 | comment | added | closetnoc | @nickpish I certainly did not mean to sound critical if I did. Keyword matches do happen only in the very narrowest of circumstances for sites that have content and rank on their own. Purchasing multiple domains for the purpose of gaining an advantage does not work. Having multiple domain names for rank does not work. It is an old black-hat trick that was very very short lived when Google discovered the foolishness of it's theory (exact match keyword domains) and pulled it quickly. Unfortunately, we see this come up often even 2 years after Google pulling the plug. Sorry about your client. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 6:53 | comment | added | closetnoc | @HelpingHands He has three problems: one, keyword domains do virtually nothing without content of their own; two, it appears that he wanted to redirect these domains to a sub-directory which cannot be done; and three there it always the duplicate content issue if it applies. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 6:45 | comment | added | nickpish | well, first off, the client purchased all the domains, thinking it would help in our specific instance. While I realize it might be overkill, I am surprised that ownership of the domains and pointing them to the primary site would not make much of a difference. This is not about magical tricks, but ways to get a bit of extra help for a specific keyword. If owning corresponding domain names really doesn't have much of an effect, then so be it. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 6:39 | comment | added | Helping Hands | did you understand why NICK has purchased these domains? "rocketred.com," "rocket-red.com," "rocketredwine.com," etc. For ranking to match keywork with domain? I am confuse for that sentence. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 5:33 | history | answered | closetnoc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |