This is one of my favorite post topic because shoutmeloud is a keyword less domain and I always encourage people to go for keyword less domains because:
Branding and uniqueness: The first and foremost reason which I give and share with my friends to select a word as a domain name which is not used widely. If I would have used something like techkro or anything like this probably Google could have given lacks of results on the basis of first keyword Tech . but keeping a domain name which is personal or never been used I will always have my unique identity in search result.
If you take an example of labnol and you search Google for labnol you will see an exclusive result for labnol only and thus it helps you creating your brand.
Domain name availability : One of the problem with keyword rich domain name is most of the good domain names (.com and .org) are already taken and I will never suggest to go for .info domain names. Instead of going for a long domain name, it’s better to have a small domain name which can help you in branding.
Competition : For domain name with keywords, you will have lots of competition for the same niche, but with your own personalize non keyword domain name, you can rank much better.
Long domain name : Instead of going for long ugly domain name just for the sake of keyword richness, it’s better to go for a small memorable domain name.
Though I would like to know your opinion on keyword rich domain name vs keyword less domain name ?
You can also take the help of previous domain name posts to find a nice unique domain name for you :
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Another reason to keep your blog name and domain name different is after certain amount of time Google will consider your blog as an authority in the topic if someone searches using the words in your domain name. This is very difficult to achieve with same domain name and the blog name
Abhinav Sonkar™s last blog post..How to Decorate Your Music with Suspended Chords
Says who ? Citation or reference please.
I am saying this from my own blog’s experience. I write on a narrow niche of guitar playing. But my domain name is my name itself. Search for “Abhinav Sonkar” in google and you will see my blog listed as an authority on the topic of guitar.
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@Abhi – I guess you missed something here. Your domain name is keyword rich and the keywords are ‘Abhinav Sonkar’ and this topic was about keyword less TLD’s
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Btw, you should optimize your blog for :
Keywords Count Estimated KEI
whats going on guitar chords tabs 76 612 306
dont dream its over guitar chords tabs 58 467 0
no doubt guitar chords tabs 56 451 225.5
no doubt spider webs guitar chords tabs 49 395 0
spider webs guitar chords tabs 48 387 0
guitar tabs chords and free lessons 43 346 0
my city was gone guitar chords tabs 43 346 0
prince nothing compares to you guitar chords tabs 43 346 0.03
pretenders show me guitar chords tabs 38 306 0.01
transpose piano chords to guitar tabs 35 282 0
guitar tabs chords free 28 226 9.83
inxs guitar chords tabs 28 226 113
nothing compares to you guitar chords tabs 27 218 0.01
spiderwebs guitar chords tabs 26 209 0.03
inxs never tears us apart guitar chords tabs 26 209 0.03
ramones guitar chords tabs 23 185 61.67
roxanne guitar chords tabs 19 153 0
show me guitar chords tabs 18 145 0
guitar tabs and chords 17 137 0
sweet dreams guitar chords tabs 16 129 0
guitar chords and tabs 10 81 0.01
guitar tabs or chords sara evans youll always be my baby 9 73 0.01
audio adrenaline the farewell concert guitar tabs and chords 8 64 0.01
ingrid michaelson guitar chords tabs 8 64 0
this love guitar chords and tabs 8 64 0
guitar tabs and chords for spirit in the sky 5 40 0
tommy walker only a god like you chords guitar tabs 4 32 0
creedence clearwater revival guitar tabs chords 4 32 0
master exploder guitar chords tabs 3 24 0
free guitar tabs and chords 3 24 0
guitar tabs chords endless sporadic impulse 2 16 0
guitar chords tabs 1 8 0
addams family theme chords on guitar tabs 1 8 0
guitar tabs chords 1 8 0
guitar tabs and chords for star spangled banner 1 8 0
free tabs and guitar chords 1 8 0
There is a lot of kEI data and stuff. Eliminate the numbers concentrate on the keywords.
PS: Harsh please edit this content once Abhinav gets hold of content.
Seems like we are on the same pitch. That’s a good point, but there is a catch here. That we have to keep writing on one niche. So that Google will define our keyword accordingly and we can see our blog at number 1 for certain keyword.
Meanwhile thanks for useful input and welcome to Shoutmeloud
Yes, of course, we have to write on a single niche. I personally believe writing on a specific niche helps you a lot in becoming an authority even when you are learning it urself!
Thanks! I found your blog through one of your comments on some other blog. Keep it up!
Abhinav Sonkar™s last blog post..How to Decorate Your Music with Suspended Chords
Thanks for the valuable input Abhinav.
These days I’m working on one of the strategy which I mentioned in my earlier post and trust me that is helping me big time. Have a look
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-commenting-can-help-you-get-1000-feed-subscriber-in-few-days.html
I would like to share with you one thing. Just visit http://irctc.in/ and have a look at its alexa stats. Its time which matters most for registering a domain. That guy must be making thousands of rupees every month just spending 8$ an year. Domain business is an intelligent game.
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Hey Pavan can you give more insight on time which you mentioned here?
Meanwhile IRCTC is one of the high traffic website in India…
By time, I guess pavan meant to say, being in the right place at the right time – if you’ve watched ‘Luck By Chance’, you already know what he meant
Brilliant find
Hmm… am not sure if I agree with you on this. The current trends is to go for keyphrase domain names (or something that has 3-4 long tail combinations) I think. labnol may have become famous but short domain names are no more a requirement. 80 or 90% of your users come via SEs and bookmarks (social or local on the browser)
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That’s very true Ajith, that Keyword rich Domain have an extra edge on SEO. Though we are more concentrating on Branding and uniqueness feature, which we get from keyword less domain.
For an example your blog MMO has name dollarshower, you might consider Dollar as a keyword here, though I find it more relevant to your niche and it’s a good name for branding rather SEO means.
Harsh, I was talking more about keyphrase like domain names e.g. something like affiliatemarketingsecrets or usedcarsinindia etc. While short domain names like yahoo, google or bing still has domain name value (only peanuts compared to brand value), the trend is towards keyphrase names.
Basically, one can still establish a blog/website and drive traffic to it even with long descriptive domain names.
PS: You must be kidding about the keyword ‘dollar’
I will have to spend a million per month to get it on top of Google serps…
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Ajith there is no point denying the fact that such keyword rich domain names are very important in terms of SEO. Infact with such domain name, with domain parking you can make good money and sell it later on for great price.
I will never deny the importance of such domain names, You can see the value of keyword rich domain name here
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/top-10-most-expensive-domain-names-ever-sold.html
It was hard to believe for me at the first instance that with keyword domain name people can make millions, but this is a fact.
Though point now is, it’s hard now to find a keyword rich domain name and for long run instead of going long ugly keyword, I recommend go for short but brand-able domain names.
That is Branding the name of person. if you use keyword rich domain than SEO will be bit easy.
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One more interesting topic for discussion.
Great going harsh. After being on web for 2 years. what i know is for targetting some keywords you need to have a domain which should contain that keyword. This is for only if the competition for that keywords is less.
Hope you got what i want to say.
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nice article but still i guess domain name have some advatages that’s y business.com but on millions of dollor.
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