domain importance

Hi, I know that having a domain like webdesign.com really helps with rating at SE... So I was wondering:

Right now I have a domain company-name.com. Would it help if I registered, (just an example!) webdesign.com or creative-web-development.net and pointed or parked it to the company-name.com?

Or would I need to make this second (example) domain my primary one?



Oh, and just one other question: Is it really possible to offer SEO as a service a company would provide to other sites and webdesigners?

I mean, OK, you can clean up the code so it validates and fix the META tags and build a sitemap and little things like that but (in my opinion) most of the good designers already do that...

actually times have change -- you shouldnt have your domain name as one of your keywords for SE.. yes it will help you with traffic if someone types webdesign.com without looking on the search engine and it points to your site..

SEO is a great time consuming business , there are alot of people offering this .. alot of web designers fail to think about SE after they design a site ..

actually, this does work. ive seen it mostly in logo design sites. search for logos or logo design, and more than likely you'll get results like www.logos-in-48-hours.com, or www.logo-company.com

btw... neither of those sites are mine. sorry if they work.

right it use to work but not anymore on google -- they have change the way google present results -- also the word [in] is a common word and will not be used in a search result -- try it on google lookup [ logos in 48 hours ] and see what u get

well not everyone uses google. logobee.com is one site that has at least 50 parked domains... i ALWAYS see them.

FYI
you will be surprise as to how many people use google results -- googles supplies the following engines ; LYCOS, IWON, NETSCAPE , HOTBOT, AOL SEARCH , ASK JEEVES , TEOMA , YAHOO -- they all recieve there results from google -- so if your listed in google -- your pretty much listed on the others --

right. but out of ALL the internet users world wide... you could agree at least sum-odd million people do not use those search engines. thats a medium i woudlnt want to miss.

thats very true ,
understanding SE takes alot of research -- and dedication -- what hurts it is the people that abuse the engines to get to the top

Does it matter if a domain is... i dunno... web-design.com or web-design.us or .biz or .tk? Are .com and .net domains "better"?

How about subdomains... like web-design.company.net? Are they any good?

subdomains are good if you link to them from within your own website like yourdomain.com and then you have a web design department you would create webdesign.yourdomain.com --

also it doesnt matter if its .com .net .org -- but im thinking with google it will start to matter soon

A tad off topic here, but Gemini ISP you said SE takes a lot of time to learn, well do you have any links that might be a good place to start learning? Ive read a fair bit on these forums, and I want to start learning the basics.

I don't think it matters about your domain ending to be honest, though people are more likely to remember a .com or .net address than a less popular one.

The main benefit from keyword domains - and they do indeed help in search engine ranking - is that people are more likely to use the keywords of the domain as anchor text when they link to you. For example, if your domain is BobsWorld.com, people would link to you using "Bob's World" as anchor text, and you would rank somewhere for "Bob's" and "World". But that doesn't help at all if you are selling fishcakes. If you're selling fishcakes, you want to rank high in Google for "fishcakes", and to rank high in Google you need people to link to your site using those keywords in the anchor text. So a better domain would be "FishCakeWorld.com".

Now, Google does nopt parse keywords when they are run together, so it's best to seperate them with a hyphen: Fishcake-World.com

This is the anchor text benefit of keyword domains.

A more direct benefit is the simple ranking boost you get from having the keywords in the URL.

Not all search engines give an added ranking boost for keywords in the URL, but Google does. If you want proof, you can take a search for any parsable keywords in a URL, and see that Google has included that page in the SERPs even when those keywords do not appear elsewhere on the page or in anchor text of links that link to the page.

This doesn't mean that all keyword domains are good, and non-keyword domains are bad. It's just that keyword domains are slightly better for search engine ranking purposes.

Don't want to teach granny to suck eggs, but surely www.searchenginewatch.com is the thing to check out for this sort of info.

It's always up to date, unlike my ironing!

Sara