The Challenge 2010: Module 2/Day 1 – Domain Importance
www.challenge.co Kenny Goodman of Domain Face discusses the importance of having your target keyword in the domain dame. Find out more about Kenny here: www.kennysblog.com
July 29th, 2010 in
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I am the 8th visitor…didn’t anyone else were checking the page every 2 minutes for the last hour to see if the lesson is up. Yea, I am that excited about it!
A simpe, sraightforward explanation. Just what we want! Oh, and a Brit, to boot!!
Caroline, Wales
It doesn’t make a difference. Good in theory but absolutely useless if google doesn’t think the site is good.
Keyword phrase: “You Free” has 2,740,000 searches a month according to google.
youfree.org hasn’t had one hit this month and it is on Page on.
It is an informative website for affiliate marketing.
So, what you are saying is great but useless
@mrgoldfinder23 Is that example site you’re site? because thanks to Google personalizing searches if you click on a site it will start ranking that site number one for your searches and that will be the only result you see. Because I see different results. Also how many people are searching for the keyword phrase?
@ashevillenchomes Hi, yes, it is my site and I already mentioned how many searches monthly above.
Personalizing searches simply means that google places a cookie on your computer and keeps the search in ‘your’ history. Mine is turned off because I want honest results.
If you see your website and click on the ’star’ then your website will always be on page one.
Google gives a lot of very misleading information and personally I don’t believe anything they have their fingers into.
@mrgoldfinder23 Are you using broad match when coming up with that number (2.7 million)? That makes a big difference……. 2.7 million searches may CONTAIN the words You and Free, but that doesn’t mean 2.7 million people are searching for JUST the words You and Free…..
@Cmcarlin Keyword phrase: “You Free” has 2,740,000 searches a month according to google.
Does it matter it is just 2 words not a sentence exactly
@mrgoldfinder23 In one of Eds videos for 30dc plus he pointed out that personalization is on all the time know. When I searched “you Free” on Google I got 8,240,000,000 search results.
Are you using Market Samurai? I would also find a computer you have never used and search the keyword from there and compare searches.
@ashevillenchomes No to Market Samurai and you can turn off personalization history (or web history) in google account settings.
@mrgoldfinder23 Start using Market Samurai and Google does personalize logged in or not.
@ashevillenchomes I’m not saying google doesn’t personalize, I am saying you have the option to turn off personalization if you wish to. What is the point of seeing one’s website on the number one spot every time you look for it.
And Market Samurai serves no specific purpose if I am not analyzing every breath i take.
Analyzing takes up time and headspace for no reason. Things are exactly as they are.
@mrgoldfinder23 Market Samurai will also track rank and show you unbiased search results and give you back link information on the competition. As in what there backlinks are and where they are from, and pr score. Then all you have do do is get links on the same sites or go out and recreate the wheel and do things the hard way.
As for the Google does not personalize argument. Go check on another computer. I use public libraries and search with my ipad. Never clicking on any sites.
@mrgoldfinder23 I just ran you’re site for the keywords “You free, affiliate website, and affiliate marketing. Nothing came up meaning you need to do some work. I also only see one backlink to this site. “You free” gets 90,082 searches a day with 37,834 click thru’s to the number one site.
PS: analyzing saves time not the other way around.
Good to finally have figured this out after buying many sexy and useless domains. Also great to hear a fellow Manchesterian teaching from where I live across the pond in the US. Cheers.
@mrgoldfinder23 Yes it does matter. If you are looking at broad results then you are including ANY sentence or phrase with You and Free in it. [You Free] (exact) get’s only 1900 searches a month GLOBALLY and ZERO Locally (USA). It’s important you understand the difference. Being able to rank for “you free” doesnt mean you will rank for “Free Thank You Cards”.
Also, try searching your site through scroogle.org to hide your ip. everyone knows google ranks sites that you visit higher.
The domain name should rank well if your keyword is it.
Thanks for the info
What a great presentation. This reminds me when Tom Hopkins once described the best way to present to people.
He said, “Tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them.”
This lesson video illustrates that perfectly.
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Hi, i just wanted to make a quick suggestion that can improve market samurai when it comes to researching for an available domain.
After finding my niche I moved on to the domain research only to find out that all the possible domain with 100% keyword density were already taken.
I considered using a domain with a prefix on it but then i had another idea. Why not adding dashes. I tried adding dashes into my theme keyword and realized the domain was available.
MS should have a “dash feature”