Your stupid if you pick the wrong domain

Alvin · #1 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 19:41

Another example of how much importance google is giving to domain names

tell me any other reason why N03 is there.?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...G=Search&meta=

Alvin

Inzvestor · #2 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 19:46

I guess your a wee bit ****ed that they are 1 spot higher than you?

Your site has loads more content than theirs - the domain does not give away the contents though...

Alvin · #3 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 19:57

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Originally Posted by Inzvestor

I guess your a wee bit ****ed that they are 1 spot higher than you?

Your site has loads more content than theirs - the domain does not give away the contents though...

Not at all Laddie we get more traffic than the sites above us.

Its all in the words.

But I am P*ssed that someone can go buy a domain and beat a site that has quality content and been lovingly slaved over by one of my assocciates.

Alvin

PremierPDS · #4 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 20:06

Well I'm taking no chances Al and intend to have the right domain name and fab content too!

UKSBD · #5 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 20:10

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Originally Posted by Alvin

tell me any other reason why N03 is there.?

Because it is well optimised for the phrase?

Alvin · #6 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 20:23

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Originally Posted by UKSBD

Because it is well optimised for the phrase?

Well as google considers 3 instances of a word in the title spam that can't be true.

No it seems that google is no longer true to its stated method of rating sites Page Rank e.t.c

Alvin

UKSBD · #7 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 20:31

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Originally Posted by Alvin

Well as google considers 3 instances of a word in the title spam that can't be true.

Got a source for that?

IP2 · #8 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 20:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alvin

Well as google considers 3 instances of a word in the title spam that can't be true.

No it seems that google is no longer true to its stated method of rating sites Page Rank e.t.c

Alvin

I was wondering about that!

Alvin · #9 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 20:57

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Originally Posted by UKSBD

Got a source for that?

Well we got HP,OK,Daddies,and 99.9% of the SEO community and google says something about it to but I can't be bothered searching for it now.

Alvin

Cathy · #10 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 20:58

I'd suggest that one possibility is the difference between your and their title tags.

Theirs
"
Cheap Boat Insurance | Boat Insurance | Boat Insurance Company"

Yours
"
CHEAP BOAT INSURANCE YACHT INSURANCE MARINE RIB SPEEDBOAT MOTOR BOATS INSURERS BROKERS INSTANT QUOTES ONLINE SEA DOO JETSKI SALES ATV QUAD CAN AM BRP PART DEALER SEADOO SERVICE SKIS ACCESSORIES BOAT CLOTHING JETS MARIVENT LONDON KENT SUSSEX SURREY ESSEX BOMBARDIER BOATS WHITSTABLE HERNE BAY"

I would say you've diluted your placement for 'cheap boat insurance' with the addition of all the other words.

I'd suggest that Google is thinking something like 'this person wants cheap boat insurance. All these pages mention it, but this one (ie yours), comapred to some of the others covers a lot more ground and so if this person had typed in 'cheap boat insurance kent' they might be more interested in this (your) site but as they haven't it might be too specific for this searcher.

If domain name was the deciding factor then 'cheapboatinsurance.co.uk' would rank higher than 'silversurfers.net' and they don't.