Domain names and SEO
Friday, January 16th, 2004According to the way back machine, this was my first ever post:
Domain names and SEO
According to the web archive, Lycos does consider domain names when determining search results (so other search engines may too) and if you want to make sure that words are separated, use a hyphen. That tells me that for my ESL web site (the archived version), I should have all links pointing to www.esl-go.com and own www.eslgo.com (point it to www.esl-go.com) since it’s the one people will remember and type into their browsers.
The Lycos guy points out that it’s a small factor, but every little bit helps, no? Anyway, it’s too late for ESLgo.com, but www.seo-search-engine-ranking.com is a name that tries to take advantage of this. Of course if you like my site you’d better add it to your favorites; www.seo-search-engine-ranking.com may be tough to remember…
Seems like common knowledge now, but back on January 16, 2004 it was fairly new to me. It’s whay I registered this name, a list of keywords I thought I might rank for one day. Little did I know how fierce the competition would become for SEO related keywords…