Page 4 - How important is a domain name in SEO?

Originally Posted by MadisonSEO

Thought some of the readers may want to see this:

NOTE there are also conflicting arguments on the site, I selected a few I agree with.

Just a few opinions from http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

Keyword Use in Domain Name
Including the targeted term/phrase in the registered domain name, i.e. keyword.com

Jonah Stein
If your nicely aged, non-hyphenated domain name contains your primary keyword, you're 25% of the way to the top...10.

Aaron Wall
If the domain name is an exact match I believe it is strongly weighted because it might be a sign of a navigational query. Plus having an exact match domain means their were either early to their topic (and thus perhaps a topical leader), or they may have paid a domainer nosebleed prices for the domain.

EGOL
That domain name will be used for a lot of your backlinks. Having your KW as your biz name will get you great anchor text links. Not using a domain with your KW will cost you a lot of relevant anchor text. Outside of the algo here is an example why you should buy the KW.com for your turf if you can get your hands on it. Makes you an authority even if undeserved - how valuable is that when you are asking for a link? It makes you THE MAN for that turf - how valuable is that when a customer is on your site. And can provide enormous psychological energy and you should never underrate that! Also looks great in the SERPs and might get you a few extra clicks.

Barry Schwartz
But the key is that people will link to you by your domain name. So if you sell Blue Widgets and your domain is www.bluewidgets.com, people are more likely to link to you as "Blue Widgets" than if you had the name rustybrick.com.

Mike McDonald
I don't see how having a domain consisting of (or containing) one of your primary keywords could be a bad thing. One of the precious few consensus opinions in SEO is the importance of link text. That said, I don't think there is much (if any) value if the keyword is one of 50 hyphenated keywords stuck in front of a .net.

Originally Posted by fathom

Ya IMHO usually means I think but not really sure... but in your posts you have stated things that aren't "opinions" they are absolutely truths (or absolute lies)... and when you place those things in an IMHO post like "I have made 3 million+" as support for something you say is just an opinion... you confuse the membership about what you are actually saying, "fact or fiction".

[please follow this - as this is important]

"IT'S A FACT" "I have made 3 million+" (you must know how much you made from your work in SEO and keyword domain things) BUT by posting merely an IMHO post because I think but not really sure... how much I made from my work in SEO and keyword domain things - that means you know you're posting total BS -- and now I [me fathom] gets to wondering why on Earth would you wish to mislead the membership?

You can't have it both ways "facts are facts" they aren't open for opinions and the only other way you can go "a fact is only an opinion" is... you got caught lying and you don't want to admit it.

I really don't care what you're motive is - the neg rep I gave was 100% warranted - and that 100% FACT! because your collective posted opinions don't make sense.