Should you have your keyword in the domain name?

Posted by James on August 5th, 2008

I try to strike a balance between having some domain that people can remember and including the keywords.  If my dream domain is not avalible (it never is), I get creative and play around with the domain.  It’s funny because the little words you add can actually help in unexpected ways.  (For example - buycars.com clearly won’t be avalible, but buysomecars.com might be.)Really long domains are a pain, but if it is actually a phrase people can remember, it might work out.

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Best search engine keyword position tracking tool

Posted by James on August 3rd, 2008

Google stopped issuing their API key a while ago… so for those that missed the boat and can’t use GoogleRankings.com (or others that use the API key) to check your keyword positions, I will introduce some other options for you here: Read the rest of this entry »

The need for .EDU links

Posted by James on August 1st, 2008

.EDU domains aren’t valued by Google solely for their name alone so much as the fact that they tend to be authoritative by their very nature.  So basically, getting access to a .edu link won’t automatically get you some hot bubbling link juice. It’s a correlation vs causation relationship.

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Another pitch for article marketing

Posted by James on July 28th, 2008

To get more traffic you should try out article marketing. I’m doing it successfully for three of my sites… On those sites more than 90% of my traffic comes from click throughs from my articles.

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One big site or many small sites?

Posted by James on July 19th, 2008

Should you open one big site on many topics or open many small niche sites, each having a topic of it’s own?  I personally prefer opening many sites (all optimized for their own unique set of keywords) as opposed to one site. The main reason being “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”.

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