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Old 04-18-2008, 07:58 PM   #1
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Question Noob is Confused - HALP!

http://www.free-downloads-for-mp3.com is my long-ass crappy name.

I chose it as it looked like it was gonna do great on type-in searches once it resolved in the search engines.

But now the more I learn -
I think it would take forever to make the google list against such fierce competition with those key words.

And I read that SE's sometimes penalize hyphenated keyword rich urls as being spammy.

What do you think?

Am I farting in the wind?

I'm willing to build the backlinks and blog and stuff.

I have 7 other equally bad domain names to choose from....

I bought them before I found out gateway pages were a bad thing.

So they're parked.

I'm a noob... advice appreciated.
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Old 04-18-2008, 11:44 PM   #2
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Honestly I don't think you have much of a shot at ranking highly in google without a lot of time and energy spent. The domain name may help, but good really doesn't pay much attention to keyworded names any longer. Your best bet would be to use a short domain name (a .com) and build a lot of back links. Use your signature in forums to get backlinks. The idea is to get backlinks on sites with a high google PR ranking, and make those links directing to your site say "free mp3 downloads". Thats the key moreso then your domain name.
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You do need to get a smaller domain name, but keep it punchy, domain names are still considered in the relevancy by the SEs. I remember reading an aticle that hyphenated domain names are better than underscored for spaces, as for spammy, the longer ones certainly, a one or 2 hyphons you'd probably get away with.
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abandon it. No one will type that in. Get a shorter one.
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I think that it is not really good to put all keywords in the URL. I think that you need tfind something more memorable like google.com or yahoo.com is.
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Sorry, I don't think you can use it....
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