How important is domain name in SEO rankings?

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Moscow Mule replied

5 December 2009, 10:50
Originally posted by Tingles View Post

Me too...

SKA what is it good for?

SEO...
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TheFaQQer replied

5 December 2009, 09:09
Originally posted by Tingles View Post

SKA what is it good for?

Absolutely nothing.

Oh no, that's war.
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Fred Bloggs replied

5 December 2009, 09:08
Originally posted by Tingles View Post

Me too...

SKA what is it good for?

Hmmm, Edwin Starr..................
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Tingles replied

4 December 2009, 22:11
Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View Post

Thanks. I was too thick to understand what SKA is for though the last time I looked at it!

Me too...

SKA what is it good for?
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Fred Bloggs replied

4 December 2009, 20:55
Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post

IIRC, AtW's jumped up little web spider does something about SEO. You could ask him...

Thanks. I was too thick to understand what SKA is for though the last time I looked at it!
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TheFaQQer replied

4 December 2009, 20:37
IIRC, AtW's jumped up little web spider does something about SEO. You could ask him...
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Fred Bloggs replied

4 December 2009, 20:21
Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post

The text between the <a> and </a> tags on the page.

e.g. <a>fred-bloggs.com</a> is probably not as good as <a>the best process engineer in the world</a>

Or something like that - assuming that anyone on here knows the algorithm that Google uses to boost you up the rankings.

Thanks. Somewhat bizarrely (in my opinion any how) my Word .doc CV gets a better rating in Google than the rest of my website. The words it seems to rate are "process engineer".
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TheFaQQer replied

4 December 2009, 20:10
Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View Post

Thanks, what exactly is the anchor text?

The text between the <a> and </a> tags on the page.

e.g. <a>fred-bloggs.com</a> is probably not as good as <a>the best process engineer in the world</a>

Or something like that - assuming that anyone on here knows the algorithm that Google uses to boost you up the rankings.
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Fred Bloggs replied

4 December 2009, 20:07
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

It would help for those specific keywords. Make sure every page has a unique title and that the relevant keywords to the page are in the title.

But links back to your website with the relevant keywords in the anchor text are the most important.

Thanks, what exactly is the anchor text? Edit- OK, I understand now.

Last edited by Fred Bloggs; 4 December 2009, 20:10.
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DimPrawn replied

4 December 2009, 20:04
It would help for those specific keywords. Make sure every page has a unique title and that the relevant keywords to the page are in the title.

But links back to your website with the relevant keywords in the anchor text are the most important.
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Fred Bloggs started a topic How important is domain name in SEO rankings?

4 December 2009, 19:26
How important is domain name in SEO rankings?

I have the domain fred-bloggs-consulting.co.uk (not really) and a Google search for "Process Engineer" gets me nowhere near a good rating despite having relevant keywords, good content, decent meta tags etc... It seems all the searched for this kind of term are flooded by jobs boards. If I had a domain like process-engineer.com would that help in my SEO rankings at all? Thanks.
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