seo??

[retired_member32]

i am confused,now if i buy a domain name containing the words "mobile phone" and mobile phone is then typed into a search engine would i be likely to feature in the first few pages of a search engine or would meta tags or keywords on a landing page determine it's position,i have looked for domains that contain the words that are relevant to the site but is this essential, because whilst looking for domains that have the name exactly these are usually link directories and parked domains which are 30-40 pages away from the front are these regarded by google as poor sites?

 

[mat]

Having the relevant key words in the domain name is just one advantage. More so with search engines like Yahoo.

You need to sort out some strong meta tags with keywords both in the description and key words section. List them in order of importance and fill the pages with keywords. Dont go over the top though! Put keywords in the ALT tags of images, use Headings and make the site easy to crawl.

Try and update the content as much as you can and make it fresh. Try not to copy from other sites as the search engines can pick up on this.

Get as many incoming links from relevant sites as you can. These can come naturaly overtime from forums (which is perfect, Google loves forum links) but also helps if you add your site to popular link directories.

Hope some of that helps,

Mat

 

[retired_member32]

good evening mat,thanks for that,i was looking at registering electronic goods like say registering nokian95.co.uk,because if it took six months to get this to the top of the listings the phone would be obselete before it made it....

 

[mishmash]

A domain alone is not enough.

A good domain is important, and it is worth starting with a good one, containing your target keywords.

After that as Mat said it's content, "content", which ideally would be fresh, unique, regularly updated and plentiful.

If you make the best site on a subject area then Google would be failing if it didn't rank you top; work with that in mind and you'll do well.

 

[retired_member32]

i suppose most people have other high pagerank sites that could point towards a new site and increase it's popularity,also are you better registering a domain that has 20 million sites on google or smaller niche market with a few thousand?

 

[mishmash]

good evening mat,thanks for that,i was looking at registering electronic goods like say registering nokian95.co.uk,because if it took six months to get this to the top of the listings the phone would be obselete before it made it....

Well you shouldn't register domains containing trade marked terms and hope to benefit from goodwill you don't own.

 

[retired_member32]

most of these mobile phones are registered by independant companies that buy all the new domains and redirect you to there affiliate sites.

 

[rjs_essex]

Thread Moved > Search Engine Optimisation

Rich

 

[retired_member16]

Well you shouldn't register domains containing trade marked terms and hope to benefit from goodwill you don't own.

You forgot to type - "im my opinion"

 

[retired_member32]

i remember somebody on this forum selling "nokiaprism" and that generated visitors without nokia knocking on the door,just as long as nokia are selling there phones then they will just let it go,i suppose if you were bad mouthing them they would wrap you knuckles.

 

[dougs]

5000 nice inbound links

with anchor text and you win

Doug

 

[BFTUK]

with anchor text and you win

Doug

Well you could do a few things to ruin that theory, but generally i agree.

Based around a sound SEO base, currently the volume of links plays a HUGE part in your search engine rankings....

 

[miked]

Well you could do a few things to ruin that theory, but generally i agree.

Based around a sound SEO base, currently the volume of links plays a HUGE part in your search engine rankings....

I'm also more and more of the opinion that *quality* original content is essential too, especially if you're building for the long term and not just going for a bit of quick slash-and-burn moneygrabbing.

Mike.

 

[dougs]

quality domain or crap domain

crap domian....throw 10,000 links at it over a month, vary the anchor text and sometimes they stay in the mighty google

nice domain ......same theory but better links and slower

Doug

 

[mit]

Keywords in the domain name is great help to achieve rankings in search engines but that is not everything, you also should have a great interesting relevant content with the targeted keywords and then lots of relevant backlinks to gain and stable on the positioning.

But what about the domain age? Is that not matter in positioning? what do you think guys?