I want to discuss keyword rich domain . There are a lot of myths about keywords domain names and how they help your ranking. Well that is not necessarily the case but here is a bunch of reasons why if you don’t know what you are doing a keyword in domain name could help you by accident.

The #1 benefits of using keyword domains is that many directories will not allow you to set your anchor text.. and if you read my other posts you will realize that anchor text is now one of the most important aspects of SEO. With that said if your domain itself has your keyword in it, you have a drastic advantage over your competitors because you will easily be able to get anchor text links without even asking for it.

I know this first hand.. I owned a company called realpokertraining.com without knowing anything about SEO we gained a ton of traffic because the domain happend to include one of the top 4 keywords that our target market was searching for (poker training). I notice accidental seo all the time just like this. I guess it isn’t so accidental considering this is how google intended it

If you have a niche product and can find a url that happens to be your main keyword then it makes it really easy to score well in the anchor text linkback department because you can just paste your url everywhere and anchor text is taken care of.Make sure you don’t neglect your other keywords you are optimizing for just because your url is your main keyword. Don’t forget to optimize with anchor text for your main keyword either! Google will only give you so much juice for a single string of anchor text being each time it gets repeated. You also have to mix it up and have different words with spaces for example to assure you gain all the benefits anchor text linkbacks can give. Google is good about checking these things to stop spammers.

There is good news though.. good link building software an article distribution allows you to rotate your anchor text. There is also the technique of article spinning that allows you to rotate your text.

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