Not at all. It’s nothing new, but keywords in domain name are awesome. My new a 35 days old autogen website is ranking #17 for its main keyword out of 32 millions. Only 100+ pages in index and less than 10 links, all bookmarks. Damn good, isn’t it?
Bullshit you say? OK then what about a 25 days old whitehat (unique contents & design) blog ranking #20+ for its main keyword out of 8.6 millions? Again, few bookmarks, 80+ pages in index, and, the most important factor, main keyword in domain name.
Where must be some kind of trick? You right. You can make your beast get ranks faster. Won’t tell you all the details, but YouTube, Wikipedia, sub domains, trusted competitors’ websites and daily posting will help it. BUT, after you get some good domains.
BTW, I would move 3 -> 1.
P.S.: Another autogenny baby keeps going up. Same techniques.
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By SEO Services Comapny on November 23rd, 2009.
yes, off course the links are really important. The link shows the popularity of your site. If more and more sites get links to your site then you will see that there will be a bunch of traffic coming toward your site….
By Briefcases on November 25th, 2009.
You can’t exactly discount the importance of links just because good domain names have gotten sub-par rankings quickly. It’s not like you’ll actually get traffic ranking at #17-20. It’s the links that will push that site up into the top 3-5 where the real traffic is at.
By Andre Colt on November 25th, 2009.
Are links really important?All links are important whethere it is a inbound link or outbound link.Cause these link can drive you more traffic.It is like your selling your product but people don’t know what you sell so in SEO link serve as the way to know what products do you have.
By Metal Briefcases on December 2nd, 2009.
It seems like this post was purposely controversial. Anyone involved in internet marketing knows that links are important. It is the biggest factor in getting search engine rankings. In the early days of search engines, you could get great rankings just by having a website that is optimized just right. These days, you have to establish trust and authority in other ways. Links are the best ways to establish that authority.
By kolchakA on December 6th, 2009.
I usually use keywords in domain name (especially creating free hosted blogs). But before you have to estimate the niche – because some are to competitive
By Rent Textbooks on December 16th, 2009.
Even a sandboxed domain can rank for its own keywords. So yes I can believe that you can rank with just a few links.
By ZukunftFahrschule on December 24th, 2009.
Are links really important? Links and back-links of high text quality are vital for a good ranking webpage.
Getting in touch with one’s competitors or sites with relevant content may require you good nerves or a good agency to help..
By used tires on January 8th, 2010.
The keyword is the domain is definitely important, but if you combine it with awesome backlinks, you have a lethal combination
Till then,
Jean
By Tampa dryer vent cleaning on January 26th, 2010.
i’m currently in the middle of changing some of my file names…..makes a huge difference…if only i knew this when I started
By Megan Fox on January 27th, 2010.
I believe you seozero, keyword domains rank extremely well. But I do also think that you will need to build some high PR links to get past the 2nd page.
By preston seo on March 9th, 2010.
I find links help alot but if you do a little of everything you can’t really go wrong