UKWebmasterWorld have organised an SEO Contest to see which SEO can rank best for the phrase SEOContest2008. My friend Astrit over at www.dnseo.net has decided to enter the competition, good luck! I’ve not bothered for a couple of reasons, 1. I’m lazy 2. I don’t want anymore SEO work, I make more than enough from my own websites thank you so whilst the kudos would be nice I can live without it.
Anyway if you do Google search for the phrase SEOContest2008 (or click this link) you’ll notice that the top results are dominated by people who are using the phrase somewhere in their domain name. Whilst using it as part of the URL is a worthy substitute in my opinion you can’t beat getting your primary phrase in the domain name, it will be interesting to see who wins this SEO contest. My money would be on somebody using SEOContest2008 as either a sub-domain or as the domain name itself.
2 Responses to “SEOContest2008, Who Said Your Domain Name Isn’t Important?”
SEO Optimization
February 4, 2008
Hi Paul,
Indeed the domain has big importance, what gives more probabilities to those folks to win the contest is that the contest is long enough (2 months) to get their site enough time to get trusted by the search engines.
Apart that the domains were already registered
I thought entering with a internal page would be better. I was still ranking on the second/third page thanks to the internal linking (and one or two inbound links from external pages) while the folks with the main domain in the first page had already build 30+ links.
Thanks for the pushup, we’ll see how far I will go
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|Paul B
February 5, 2008
I see you’ve jumped to number 3, congratulations!
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