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percies pink widgets
How come I end up waaaaay down the list below sites like...
rogerswickedwidgets.com
fairlyfriendlywidgets.com
wildandwet.com/widgets
Even other, less relavent sites (IMO), strangely rank higher.
However, if I put in...
perciespinkwidgets
I'm the only one listed!
BTW - I've got title, meta keywords, meta description and relative content reflecting my domain name, etc. I think I'm doing everything "by the book" but it's not working out. Can anyone clue me in?
Its not all about "on page"...
Right. Google doesn't try to parse keywords in domain names/URLs. The only keyword in your domain name is "perciespinkwidgets", which is why you come up for that. The only way you can get any Google benefit is if you can get other sites to link to you with the anchor text "percies pink widgets". However, if you somehow can manage to control what other sites use as anchor text, you could do just as well with brandname.com. There are lots of good reasons a SE wouldn't want to parse domain names. Classic example being would webmasterworld.com. Should that be parsed as "web master world", and this site is Brett's attempt at global domination of the web? ;)
Brett's attempt at global domination of the web? ;)
custom wheels
...in Google I get both...
www.custom-wheels-car-rims.com
customwheelsmarket.com
...near the top with the words I searched for in bold. Looks likes it's parsing the domain to me!?
Google doesn't try to parse keywords in domain names/URLs.
Actually Google is parsing keywords (stemming) in continuous strings. Lots of topics around here in the past few months concerning that.
Or the site is doing well for reasons other than the domain name. Such as lots of keyword laden inbound links.
