troels nybo nielsen
msg:63795 | 8:55 am on Dec 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Interesting question. In some cases the extension is actually a part of the brand.
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soapystar
msg:63796 | 11:48 am on Dec 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
the . before the com is a stop sign to google, so it wil see whatever is before the . as a single word. I would assume.
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MHes
msg:63797 | 12:12 pm on Dec 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Hi I assume the anchor text is just big blue widgets.com and then descriptive text. IMHO... In your example (with spaces), Google will index you for "big", "blue" and "widgets.com". If the link is "big-blue-widgets.com" it will be the same as above. Hence keyword domain advantage. If the link is "bigbluewidget.com" then you get no keyword anchortext. It makes sense to ignore the domain if google wants to tackle keyword domain advantage, but at present I don't think they do. The words surrounding anchor text, perhaps up to five, are related to the link, so "custom" will be associated with the link text. In this respect a better link would be "Big(space)blue(space)widgets(space).com - Custom made widgets.
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jomaxx
msg:63798 | 5:58 pm on Dec 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Soapystar is correct. The period is seen as a word break.
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fathom
msg:63799 | 6:18 pm on Dec 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
| Soapystar is correct. The period is seen as a word break. |
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Although correct this is not really the issue (I think) or question you need an anwer for. Link anchors are the concern as MHes has pointed out. bluewidgets.com blue-widgets.com If as a link anchor both of these example would depreciate the weighing value of the anchor for a search query on blue widget A link anchor such as blue widget [bluewidgets.com].com (where the dot.com is not part of the link anchor) or; BlueWidget.com is a reseller of blue widgets [bluewidgets.com]. -- would add more weight from off-part relevancies.
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jomaxx
msg:63800 | 6:36 pm on Dec 26, 2002 (gmt 0) |
I pretty much agree with that, but setting up your incoming links as <A HREF="whatever">keyword</A>.com is probably taking things too far. That would be very jarring to nonrobots (i.e. people).
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weisinator
msg:63801 | 3:13 pm on Dec 27, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Playing with their adwords toy, I found that you can buy terms like "widget com" but not "widget.com" so I will assume that the period is a word stopper. EG, "widget com" = "widget.com" in the eyes of googlebot.
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