Best approch for website address.

#1

Hello all,

What is the best approch for a website address in order to achieve a
high search engine result.

For example, is www.newcastleonline.com better than www.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

Thank you,

Jon

#2

Jon wrote:

Quote:

Hello all,

What is the best approch for a website address in order to achieve a
high search engine result.

For example, is www.newcastleonline.com better than www.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

Thank you,

Jon

Please don't spam this NG with your thinly veiled cries for help and advice!

Just kidding - but I wouldn't be surprised if *someone* here doesn't
post that!

Regarding the domain. It's great if you can get a domain name that is
descriptive of what content is on the site, but not imperative. Having
keyword-keyword or keywordkeyword is good when trying to get backlinks.
It gives you a chance of always getting your keywords in the link if
only the link is posted with no anchor text.

With regards to which is better kw-kw or kwkw I would say that kwkw is
the more memorable for type in traffic. With regards to which the search
engines prefer I don't think that there is a noticeable difference.

Hope this helps.

Jez.

#3

Quote:

For example, is www.newcastleonline.com better than www.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

www.newcastle-hotels.co.uk would be better than either.

#4

On 2 Oct, 13:27, Jez <j... (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:

Quote:

Jon wrote:
Hello all,

What is the best approch for a website address in order to achieve a
high search engine result.

For example, iswww.newcastleonline.combetter thanwww.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

Thank you,

Jon

Please don't spam this NG with your thinly veiled cries for help and advice!

Just kidding - but I wouldn't be surprised if *someone* here doesn't
post that!

Regarding the domain. It's great if you can get a domain name that is
descriptive of what content is on the site, but not imperative. Having
keyword-keyword or keywordkeyword is good when trying to get backlinks.
It gives you a chance of always getting your keywords in the link if
only the link is posted with no anchor text.

With regards to which is better kw-kw or kwkw I would say that kwkw is
the more memorable for type in traffic. With regards to which the search
engines prefer I don't think that there is a noticeable difference.

Hope this helps.

Jez.

Thank you for the reply mate. It was an honest question

I've been doing some reading and followed a number of SEO tips, but
before I register the required address (the above was just an example)
I wanted to make sure I get the right one. What do you mean by
"backlinks" and "It gives you a chance of always getting your keywords
in the link if
only the link is posted with no anchor text". How can a link not have
anchor text?

Thanks,

Jon

#5

On 2 Oct, 14:06, Phil Payne <p... (AT) isham-research (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Quote:

For example, iswww.newcastleonline.combetter thanwww.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

www.newcastle-hotels.co.ukwould be better than either.

Thanks Phil, but hotels could be anything and therefore why I'm using
the 'online' bit.

I have however used friendly urls so hotels is a folder in the
address.

Jon

#6

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:27:07 +0100, Jez <j.ez (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:

Quote:

Jon wrote:
Hello all,

What is the best approch for a website address in order to achieve a
high search engine result.

For example, is www.newcastleonline.com better than www.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

Thank you,

Jon

Please don't spam this NG with your thinly veiled cries for help and advice!

Just kidding - but I wouldn't be surprised if *someone* here doesn't
post that!

Regarding the domain. It's great if you can get a domain name that is
descriptive of what content is on the site, but not imperative. Having
keyword-keyword or keywordkeyword is good when trying to get backlinks.
It gives you a chance of always getting your keywords in the link if
only the link is posted with no anchor text.

With regards to which is better kw-kw or kwkw I would say that kwkw is
the more memorable for type in traffic. With regards to which the search
engines prefer I don't think that there is a noticeable difference.

Hope this helps.

Jez.

I'd get both and have kwkw forward to kw-kw.

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#7

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:10:41 -0000, Jon <JonMYates (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

On 2 Oct, 13:27, Jez <j... (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:
Jon wrote:
Hello all,

What is the best approch for a website address in order to achieve a
high search engine result.

For example, iswww.newcastleonline.combetter thanwww.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

Thank you,

Jon

Please don't spam this NG with your thinly veiled cries for help and advice!

Just kidding - but I wouldn't be surprised if *someone* here doesn't
post that!

Regarding the domain. It's great if you can get a domain name that is
descriptive of what content is on the site, but not imperative. Having
keyword-keyword or keywordkeyword is good when trying to get backlinks.
It gives you a chance of always getting your keywords in the link if
only the link is posted with no anchor text.

With regards to which is better kw-kw or kwkw I would say that kwkw is
the more memorable for type in traffic. With regards to which the search
engines prefer I don't think that there is a noticeable difference.

Hope this helps.

Jez.

Thank you for the reply mate. It was an honest question

I've been doing some reading and followed a number of SEO tips, but
before I register the required address (the above was just an example)
I wanted to make sure I get the right one. What do you mean by
"backlinks" and "It gives you a chance of always getting your keywords
in the link if
only the link is posted with no anchor text". How can a link not have
anchor text?

Thanks,

Jon

The link might be formatted as
<a href="http://www.yada.com">yadas available here</a>
where 'yadas available here' would be spoken of as the anchor text
or as
<a href="http://www.yada.com">http://www.yada.com</a>

the latter being spoken of as having no anchor text or having the url
itself as the anchor text.

BB

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#8

Jennifer Magee --
SpecialOperationsDirector
http://www.AmazingBillboards.com

I recommend the one without the hyphen because it is more than likely
going to come up better when searching without the hyphen and the
hyphen could confuse others causing you to lose traffic.

On Oct 2, 7:59 am, Jon <JonMYa... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

Hello all,

What is the best approch for a website address in order to achieve a
high search engine result.

For example, iswww.newcastleonline.combetter thanwww.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

Thank you,

Jon

#9

Jennifer Magee --
SpecialOperationsDirector
http://www.AmazingBillboards.com

I would like to know what back links are as well.

On Oct 2, 9:10 am, Jon <JonMYa... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

On 2 Oct, 13:27, Jez <j... (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:

Jon wrote:
Hello all,

What is the best approch for a website address in order to achieve a
high search engine result.

For example, iswww.newcastleonline.combetterthanwww.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

Thank you,

Jon

Please don't spam this NG with your thinly veiled cries for help and advice!

Just kidding - but I wouldn't be surprised if *someone* here doesn't
post that!

Regarding the domain. It's great if you can get a domain name that is
descriptive of what content is on the site, but not imperative. Having
keyword-keyword or keywordkeyword is good when trying to get backlinks.
It gives you a chance of always getting your keywords in the link if
only the link is posted with no anchor text.

With regards to which is better kw-kw or kwkw I would say that kwkw is
the more memorable for type in traffic. With regards to which the search
engines prefer I don't think that there is a noticeable difference.

Hope this helps.

Jez.

Thank you for the reply mate. It was an honest question

I've been doing some reading and followed a number of SEO tips, but
before I register the required address (the above was just an example)
I wanted to make sure I get the right one. What do you mean by
"backlinks" and "It gives you a chance of always getting your keywords
in the link if
only the link is posted with no anchor text". How can a link not have
anchor text?

Thanks,

Jon- Hide quoted text -

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#10

On Oct 2, 1:27 pm, Jez <j... (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:

Quote:

Jon wrote:
Hello all,

What is the best approch for a website address in order to achieve a
high search engine result.

For example, iswww.newcastleonline.combetter thanwww.newcastle-online.com
if the keyword in google for example was 'newcastle hotels'?

Thank you,

Jon

Please don't spam this NG with your thinly veiled cries for help and advice!

Hey Jez,

ROFLOL does seem a few here think everything is SPAM!

Quote:

Just kidding - but I wouldn't be surprised if *someone* here doesn't
post that!

Regarding the domain. It's great if you can get a domain name that is
descriptive of what content is on the site, but not imperative. Having
keyword-keyword or keywordkeyword is good when trying to get backlinks.
It gives you a chance of always getting your keywords in the link if
only the link is posted with no anchor text.

With regards to which is better kw-kw or kwkw I would say that kwkw is
the more memorable for type in traffic. With regards to which the search
engines prefer I don't think that there is a noticeable difference.

Hope this helps.

Jez.

Hyphenated domains are best because they are readable by Google as
separate words where as keywordkeyword.com is not.

It's obvious really, take the above is keywordkeyword.com targeting-

key word keyword
key word key word
keyword keyword
k eyw ordkey word
keywordkeyword
ke ywo rdkey wor d

Some of these make real words, some are gibberish, how is Google
etc... to decide which one(s) the domain is about? And what if it's a
made up name or a new brand or something (it would need an enormous
database of what EVERYTHING means)?

There's no easy way to determine what a string of letters means in a
domain and so Google etc... has to use a set of separators (hyphen)? I
heard Google was considering using underscores as separators as well
(which would make sense for file names), but not confirmed it (must
setup a test).

Right now the only way you can be 100% sure words within a domain can
help with rankings are in this format-

keyword.com (single word domain)
keyword-phrase.com (a phrase separated by hyphens)

Wrote about it here http://www.seo-gold.com/seo-tutorial...n-name-choice/
a while back.

David
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