Keywords in the domain name

I know having keyword in your domain name is very important. I've noticed it also helps with "google sandbox" issues. (If there's a search that occurs with your domain name, you'll still appear at or near the top, isn't that correct?) Say you find a niche that you like, should you make the domain name something like: "authenticdesignerhandbags.com" or something? Is that valuable (from an seo point of view). Or does it really matter very much?

Let me know your thoughts...

I have always found it is much easier to rank for exact domain match with com/ort/net than if I add a word, use hyphens, or any other type of domain name.

I think a lot depends on the competitiveness of the terms you are trying to target. Of course, you want to try to find a domain that people will understand. The keyword element does not have the punch it once did. You'll see better results with keywords in domain for less competitive terms over competitive terms.

Domains are something that needs to be memorable IMO. Long, drawn out domains intended to capture your long tail target keyterms may be easily forgettable. You want your visitors to remember where they were when they saw your product or service. To me, that will keep them coming back and tell their friends about it. (also, engaging content is needed)

Using keywords for sub folders also helps visitors see where they are on your site. They act as breadcrumbs. Not exactly what you were looking for, but somewhat related.

a keyword on the domain name is definitely useful but then this is not the only strategy that one can do to push the page rank. have a good SEO plan and you can be assured of a better PR.

Puting the main targeted keyword in domain name is a good practice. Its called domain optimization. Coz searching spiders like googlebot or msnbot, these first crawl the name of the domain for the keyword. So it would help the site ranking in SERP.

hello, keyword? could you also use them as meta tags?

Meta tags are virtually useless except the title tag now-a-days. It never hurts to add info to your meta tags but by all means, do not spend time worrying about them.

Domain name is important as it will give you advantage if it is the same as the keyword which you are going to target

Keywords & domain name - for this I have my personal exp.

I have around 80 websites from them around 70 website's domain name is my targeted keywords..

IT helps me some time not some time.. but ya this time i am getting my 50% business for this type of domain - without seo some keywords give me business..

But as per seo .. all things are depends on SEO

The idea could help but you also need other strategies too to have a good ranking for your site..And I have seen lot sites without any ranking but closer domain names to good ranked site...

I've found that kewyord URLs can have a big impact on getting ranked.

I often see keyword URL sites beating other sites which have more SEO, PR backlinks etc.

So yes it will help.

Keywords in domain usually get easily get more ranked in search engine. But it depends on how many competitive you have. If you have less competitive the more it will be good for ranked as long you do backlinking and SEO.

Have your findings been for sites/keywords that are low, medium or high competition? I can somewhat vouch for this helping you get ranked and helping additional pages get indexed as we saw a pretty good jump in traffic and the # of pages being indexed after we added keywords. As said earlier, the keywords were not highly competitive and the increased # of pages indexed were for category and product pages.

I have a website named www.keyword1keyword2keyword3.com The website is relative new, with just 6-7 links pointing to it. The site is on the first page after first indexing in about 98.000.000 pages after "keyword1 keyword2 keyword3" search. The name of domain is essential if you want to rank on the keywords from domain.

Congrats on 1st page placement but you may be experiencing the Google freshness affect since it's so early. A true testament to this will be in a few weeks.

Also, 98,000,000 pages does necessarily dictate much. How many pages and sites are actually targeting your keywords and also, how competitive are those terms? Putting keywords in "keyword" will help get a better idea of the competitiveness of the terms you are going after.

Not trying to shoot you down but I want to make sure newbies understand that it isn't much about keywords in domain as it is other more important factors.