This was a continuation of the question I asked in a different thread concerning the stop word 'the'. In short I was asking if the domain 'theflowershopnetwork' could ever be ranked number one if someone searched 'theflowershopnetwork' since 'the' is a stop word and is dropped from the Google search. For the most part the answer is no. What I'm getting at is a person is always ranked number one for their own domain name "unless it starts with the word "the" since no one can be more relevant. This is what brought me to "sexy shoes" .
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Originally Posted by cw1865
Sparky, when you see things like what? That x number of searches were done for a particular keyword?
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yes the searches were done for the search term "sexy shoes"
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Originally Posted by incrediblehelp
No and No. In this case have the right back links is key. Sure content can lead to getting the right back links long term and I suggest you create good content to attract links.
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I have to disagree. Links help your
PR and
PR has nothing to do with the SERPS. I have seen pages with
PR one rank higher in the SERPs over pages with much higher
PR.
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Originally Posted by incrediblehelp
The domain itself has VERY little to do with ranking for keywords.
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Since no one can be more relevant and always ranks number one for their own domain name, how can it have very little to do with it?
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Originally Posted by ExtravagantMedia
There are a couple of reasons for this. 1. The key phrase is long tail. A more heavily trafficked key phrase may or may not score the top listing depending on keyword difficulty and the competitor authority.
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Since you alway rank number one for your own domain, wouldn't you say you are an authority for your own domain? Hence incredihelps sig file "kbkmarketing.com". He is the authority on kbkmarketing since he owns the domain. And he will always be ranked number one for the search term of kbkmarketing right?
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Originally Posted by ExtravagantMedia
2. Google assigns serious weight to domain names and the closer you are to an EXACT match for whatever key phrase you are pursuing, the better off you are.
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Very true and that is what I'm getting at.
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Originally Posted by ExtravagantMedia
3. It is very possible for an authority site to out rank a site with the exact key phrase match. Therefore content is still king.
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How? Since they own the domain they are automatically an authority, and will always rank number one for their own domain name.
My argument "for lack of better words"
If the domain "sexyshoes" put up content on let's say railroads, they would still rank number one for the search phrase 'sexy shoes' because of the serious weight that is put on by owning the domain name. No matter much I keyword or put relevant content on my page to rank for this keyword, I can never be ranked #1 as I can never become more relevant than a domain that is an exact match for that keyword.
Content takes a back seat if your domain name is an exact match.
Never get a domain with the word 'the' at the beginning, because you can never be ranked #1 for your domain name. And try to get a domain that uses a keyword that you are going after.
CW1865 - As far as your idea of getting the domain sexy-shoes-usa.com, you will see that sexy-shoes.com is taken, but it does not rank #1 even if you do a search for sexy-shoes because google drops the hyphen like they drop the word 'the', hence never get a domain that is hyphenated. When sexy-shoes was searched, sexyshoes.com was still ranked #1 because Google drops the hyphen.
Which brings me back to my original point that domain names vs. content...content takes a backseat if your domain name is an exact search. It does not matter if your page is relevant to it or not.
Incredihelp - I assumed that you own kbkmarketing.com as it is in your sig file. If you do not own it, please accept my apology for saying that you did.