Do Keywords In Domains Matter?
Written by Chewie on January 9, 2009 – 9:43 pmLets talk about something that is fairly important. I have been asked in the past in order to make money online with blogs, does it matter if my keywords are in the domain. I used to say not really. But until more recently have I been using exact keyword domains and ranking in top 3 spots with 0 inlinks in Google. I am able to make money faster than ever with new domains. First off, I know what I have told some of you. Yes I did say buy preowned domains. I still say to do that, but I also know that if done properly, You can immediately rank in the top of Google right from the get go.
What that means is that I am making money at a faster rate than ever with less work. Does it take work to make money online? Of course it does! Don’t think that are easy ways to make money on the internet with little to no work unless you want to lose your butt on PPC campaigns. Thats another story, but the fact of the matter is, keyword research still proves so valuable with this method as well.
Now that leads us to this MMO site. Would WhataWookie Be ranking better in Google for the term Make Money Online and even Make Money Online free if Make money online was in the name of the domain? Yes it would. While I have gone after branding this site more than being concerned with the words make money online in my domain name, I probably would have done things a little differently, and went ahead and registered a name with those keywords in it.
I really am not worried at this point though because the site already ranks for plenty of MMO keywords, and it also is being found in Google for things like Make Money Wookie and Make Money Online Wookie. This tells me that the branding part is working. Now let me ask you a question folks. If you are building a site to make money with, do you build it to brand the site, or do you build it to rank in Google?
Organic traffic is the most important traffic a site can ever have. While I will probably sell this site down the road, and for that purpose I have branded it, branding is the least important thing when monetizing a site, unless you have an ecommerce site where you are hoping for return buyers.
Let me repeat this to everyone that has a social blog, or trys to make money with twitter and other social sites. Organic traffic is the best traffic for adsense and other types of ad placements for a blog or even a static html site. If you are trying to make money with social traffic then i’m sorry, I don’t have tips for you.
Posted in make money online | 10 Comments »
January 10th, 2009 at 3:10 am
Excellent content here and a nice writing style too. you are totally right about the keywords in the domains. Thanks for sharing the great tips and quality articles.
January 10th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I tell you what J, that is right on spot. By the way, after reading your article on Unique Article Wizard, I figured I had been working way too hard to get links. I see it already working. Right on Brother, this one is a winner!
Thanks again for your solid articles.
January 11th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
You are so right about the domain keywords. I have a few that get ranking right away. They also get indexed almost immediately too!
Now to find the right keywords for domains that make me money online!
I keep building sooner or later I will hit a home run. Until then its all practice.
January 27th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Speaking of Unique Article Wizard. A friend of mine has let me submit an article to it through his account and can’t wait to see what effect it will have.
I’m totally looking forward to seeing a few Adsense sites succeed.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I think the keywords in the domain can help a lot. I think the extension is what is over hyped. I have had just as much luck with .org, .net, and other domains outside the typical .com. However, it’s still very possible to rank well even if you don’t have the keywords in your domain.
February 15th, 2009 at 4:03 am
Hi, great post, and thanks for all the work you do providing information on your blogs for all of us relative newbies. I have noticed that having keywords in the URL does make the ranking process go a lot faster, but I’ve also noticed that sometimes the branding thing does help, and you can still get long tails from some competitive fields just following your and Grizz’s advice. Many thanks again!
February 25th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I was wondering if you knew weather having hyphenated keyword domains makes any difference? ie; makemoneyonline.com compared to make-money-online.com. I’ve heard arguments both for and against hyphenated domains but no clear “Yes this one’s better”.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
The keywords in the domain names was great to pont out. And of course I heard you loud and clear about the organic traffic. I totally agree!
May 12th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Key words in domain names do matter a lot.
November 7th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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