Reversal of Normal Text Searches

how well do they search?

[old_expat]

I have a plan for a web site that would have several sub domains.

The search terms I would be relying on are something like:

I am a **** (dog, donkey, rat, etc)

All are excellent keyword phrases that get lots of searches.

Since all the (dog, donkey, rat, etc) domains are already registered, I am wondering about the viability of:

****.iama.com (available), so my virtual domains would be dog.iama.com, etc

That is reversed from virtually all the standard phrases users would be searching, i.e., "I am a dog".

What do you think?

[trillianjedi]

Keyword domains are still vogue as far as most of the SE algo's are concerned for the moment so it certainly wouldn't do you any harm.

If keyword domains drop in terms of any SE benefit though, you are stuck with something that will look a bit silly.

TJ

[old_expat]

Hello TJ,

Thanks very much for your input. It isn't really quite as odd as my example. :)

But I did go ahead and bite the bullet and register the domain. Now I'm wondering if iama.com/dog/ might search better than dog.iama.com

The iama.com/dog/ approach would result in a larger single site and the directories would be keywords, but I've heard that virtual domains all look like unique web sites.

Suggestions?