Are keyword rich domain available for sell??

MichelRobinson2 · 02-04-2008, 11:43 PM

Hi

My SEO friend suggest me to purchase keyword rich domain for my new website. Is this possible? What's the best use of these for search engine optimization purposes?

pinkfluffybunny · 02-05-2008, 01:12 AM

MichelRobinson2,

It used to be that the engines gave weight to a site that had a good keyword in the domain name - those days are gone.

Back before it went away you purchased a real domain name (company name) and one for search engine placement (goodredwidgets for example, if you were selling red widgets)

We then pointed both domain names at the site. The goodredwidgets.com was registered with the search engines and the other was placed on business cards and for referal but not registered. Even in those days the engines would penalize for domain spamming (registering both). Now they're smart enought to pick the one they like.

So no don't bother if that's your only purpose. BUT if you wnt to have a referal site that's all pretty or a landing site and keep the other domain, that's ok IF the content is not similar.

I'll give you an example forextips.com and markettraders.com. , the inhouse marketing morons talked the new ceo into splitting them up (not pretty enought for them).Forextips is the lead site now and markettrades.com the sales site

Unfortunately the inhouse marketing guy and a team of just out of school developers handle the sales site and paid ads, its not doing a 1/10 of the sales my lead site is doing. So brilliant as they are he and his team added alot similar content to the lead site and registered it or it got registered.
The sales site will never do well and the lead site will start dropping like a rock soon. that could cost them lotz of coin this year and I see lay offs in their furture

Clients they come and go.........lol

MichelRobinson2 · 02-05-2008, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by pinkfluffybunny

MichelRobinson2,

It used to be that the engines gave weight to a site that had a good keyword in the domain name - those days are gone.

Back before it went away you purchased a real domain name (company name) and one for search engine placement (goodredwidgets for example, if you were selling red widgets)

We then pointed both domain names at the site. The goodredwidgets.com was registered with the search engines and the other was placed on business cards and for referal but not registered. Even in those days the engines would penalize for domain spamming (registering both). Now they're smart enought to pick the one they like.

So no don't bother if that's your only purpose. BUT if you wnt to have a referal site that's all pretty or a landing site and keep the other domain, that's ok IF the content is not similar.

I'll give you an example forextips.com and markettraders.com. , the inhouse marketing morons talked the new ceo into splitting them up (not pretty enought for them).Forextips is the lead site now and markettrades.com the sales site

Unfortunately the inhouse marketing guy and a team of just out of school developers handle the sales site and paid ads, its not doing a 1/10 of the sales my lead site is doing. So brilliant as they are he and his team added alot similar content to the lead site and registered it or it got registered.
The sales site will never do well and the lead site will start dropping like a rock soon. that could cost them lotz of coin this year and I see lay offs in their furture

Clients they come and go.........lol

Thanx buddy for your valuable suggestion.