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Is Your Domain Name Triggering A Red Flag?

Went Hot: November 14, 2007 - 11:04 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 600 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: News Sites

Interesting question, and how is this affected by TLDs?

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from AndyBeard 600 days ago #

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I have been wondering for a while whether the .eu tld I use might be triggering some kind of "never let him on the front page" flag

from igorthetroll 600 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Andy, possibly. Remember dot com, id the popular one.

from AndyBeard 600 days ago #

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The problem for me is that .eu is probably the most legitimate TLD of all because you can't use and privacy whois service... plus I don't own the .com

from igorthetroll 600 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Andy you do not need to be Digged or Stumbled, think what you say on your blog, other sEO blogs and here, has value for people who are listening.

Who is going to listen to you on Digg? Even if you make top page, do you want them to use up your bandwidth?

I think many of us have a strong punch even if we do not get 10,000 uniques daily.
When we talk, they listen..:)

from davidrosenberg 600 days ago #

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This is why we have sphinn to make us independent of digg. This is a great alternative to digg, and it is targeted for SEOers. You will be getting bettet eyeballs to look at your site.

from vanessafox 600 days ago #

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Try having the word nude in your domain name. ;)

from TimDineen 600 days ago #

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funny Vanessa, but I have a suspician that your nude site gets a manual HJ - adult pun not intended.

from igorthetroll 600 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Vanessa darling, I bet you my Travel in Asia site gets more queries for that kind of stuff.
I'll just redirect the nude stuff to you and keep the travelers..:)

from SEOdisco 599 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Bait and switch, yo!

from jonathan 599 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Vanessa, simply put, you're amazing.

You totally rock.

from keywords 599 days ago #

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So which of the following domain names are more likely to get dugg than buried?

- searchengineband.com

- searchenginehand.com

- searchenginemanned.com

- searchenginenanny.com

- searchenginefan.com

- searchenginefanny.com

- searchenginesand.com

- searchenginetanned.com

- searchenginewand.com

- searchenginebland.com

;P nmw

from gunjanpandya 599 days ago #

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we can also use .org domain

from keywords 598 days ago #

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Now that's an idea...

How about .IN ? When I posted recently on radar.oreilly.COM, Mr. O'Reilly was confused by the domain name (registered under .IN) and therefore deleted all of my posts.

Does that reflect badly on me or on the domain name or on Mr. O'Reilly? (I guess everyone needs to decide this for themselves) see also http://www.aboutus.org/Oreilly.com#Additional_Information

from scottclark 598 days ago #

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Forgetting Digg for a moment.

Using a topical TLD is like dressing for an occasion.

I absolutely steer my own firm's marketing efforts using names. It makes a big difference. I have a whole suite of domains that I vary depending on marketing efforts. I have several old-crusty core names for SEO (upon which I accumulate page rank,) and the others are for ppc, email, and blog commenting where crawling isn't a factor.

I've not done the specific analytics but my feeling after doing it is that when I use my topical names I can dramatically improve response rates, opens, CTR, and link aquisition. Possibly double, even triple response rates in some audiences.

Explaining this to clients, however, is harder.

from keywords 598 days ago #

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I wouldn't rely too much on any single machine -- that might begin to look like AOL (in which Google acquired a 5% stake in Dec 2005).

( BTW: the transparency which Google appears to have lost sight of has not been banned from the Internet -- you should be well aware that everything about all of your domains are easily known to anyone who might care :)