Does Google really penalize keyword domains?

[ChuckZilla]

Hi All,

I have heard that Google doesn't like domains that are made up of multiple keywords. So for the record if a top search is keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 and I have a properly SEO'd domain of keyword1keyword2keyword3.com, does Google automatically penalize me?

Chuck

[buckworks]

In my experience there is no penalty for a keyword-rich domain as long as the content is good and you stay white-hat in how you promote it.

[Quadrille]

1. Every word is a key word, isn't it? just different strokes ...

2. Why would Google care what you call your domain?

3. So ling as your name is 'legal' - and your registrar could hardly sell you one that wasn't.

4. Google cares about the content of your site, and what you do with it. period.

Mind you, a long boring keyword-packed doamin name won't *help* you - and most potential visitors will run a mile. But that's a taste thing; in my view, best not to use spammers' domain naming conventions, lest people think, er, ...

[stu2]

As I understand things (and I may be wrong and completely out in left field), the domain name is part of the url, and google would give points for having the keyword being searched as part of the url. Else, why such passion for keyword rich domains? The benefit might not be much, but when we are speaking of SEO here, every little bit helps. Content and white hat SEO are kings.

[opifex]

such as destination1-destination2.com? my destination1.com.xx/destination2/ have always topped the former on a 2KW search. Content is similar and both well maintained. might be something there or not. just ran it on 3 se's and I was number 1 on 2 of them and number 2 on 1 ... who knows?

[trader]

Contrarily, IMO Google and other se's actualy like keyword domains. If you check you can see it credits the words located in the domain using word parsing and counts them as keywords.

For example, wordwordword.com in the url and word word word ised in the content should count as 6 references to it, or double the 3 you would expect.v