Re: SEO Question

[Mark Armstrong]

Daniel is right.

Keyword'd domains are of little value now days.

focus on making good keyword'd phrases in your SEO strategy, not the  
domain name.

Mark


On Sep 23, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Daniel Elmore wrote:

It depends on the word and the time of the year. Google has been
experimenting with stemming algorithms for years, which changes  
"boxes"
into "box" and "swimming" into "swim". But they have been turning  
it on
and off and weighing its affect differently. As of late it seems to be
set to a low intensity. Either way the tense that matches the user's
keyword will always rank slightly heavier. Also, not all words  
stem. If
the stem dictionary doesn't know "iqwebs" it probably won't stem it  
too
"iqweb". AFAIK, yahoo and msn don't use stemming at all.

FYI, keywords domains help very little with SEO. If you're in a very
competitive keyword arena like "computer jobs", forget the keyword
domain. Think of a cool marketing name and start branding it. Keyword
domains are out, branding is in! Don't think that www.computerjobs.com
got its number one spot for "computer jobs" because of its domain. The
domain contributed probably around 0.5 percent of the needed  
"juice" to
get there.

Daniel Elmore


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Joe Kelly
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:34 AM
To: list@dfwcfug.org
Subject: Re: SEO Question

It makes a difference, in Google at least.  Try it out.  I typed in
"iqweb" & "iqwebs" and came up with different results.  It's plural
words like "company" and companies" that are aggevating to me in SEO
and even just searching.
Joe Kelly

On 9/23/05, Brent Helms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Question: If you were registering a domain with SEO in mind, how does

the

search-engine work with regards to singular versus plural words.  A

simple

example.

www.I-like-apples.com

versus

www.I-like-apple.com

(BTW: dont click on those, I have no idea what they go to)

Is the plural form worse because "apple" may be a more common search

term,

so "apple" is better, or will "apples" always pick up the singular

form as

well?  The conflict is: this domain looks better in the plural form,

but if

the singular form is used as a searchable word more often, does taht

mean

the singular form is the route to go?

Make sense?

Brent



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Thanks,
Joe Kelly
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