What happens if . . .

your domain name is also a keyword

[joeking]

If my domain name is redwidgets.com and I sell red widgets, will googlebot see it as keyword stuffing if my domain name appears on a page several times and I use the keyword too where relevant?

Red widgets could very easily appear 10-20 times without any attempt at keyword stuffing, but I assume you would be penalised.

Any thoughts? And ideas for working around this?

[DerekH]

Before you disappear off the first page of the forum, let me bump this up for you by saying...

I've not had any problems with part of one of my domain names being one of my keywords.

DerekH

[irishaff]

same here,id say its an advantage with good anchor text possibilities. all inbounds will have your keyword in them also.

[webnewton]

This is an advantage that you've.

[OptiRex]

Good on you...why were your competitors so short-sighted not to have it done it themselves?

Me? 100+ domains of which 90%+ have keywords in the domain names and never a problem.

>irishaff - same here,id say its an advantage with good anchor text possibilities. all inbounds will have your keyword in them also.

Spot on, take every advantage you can joeking.

Keyword stuffing? I've seen a lot of theorising about it with the so-called optimum percentages and what may happen with stuffing of meta tags however does anyone have any genuine, hard evidence?

Google seems to like lots of keywords, up to 10% probably, but when you look at some pages which rank at the top it can sometimes be 50%!

Take irishaff's advice and you'll be flying and if not, there's a helluva lot of us about to be dumped!

[foxtunes]

Keywords in domains seems to work for me, however if your keyword is in the domain name, title, description, meta tag, alt tags and all over your page, this could trip a filter.

[Tropical Island]

if your keyword is in the domain name, title, description, meta tag, alt tags and all over your page, this could trip a filter.

Don't agree entirely with this statement.

One of our sites is example.com (not a real url) and by it's very nature has the example everywhere - title, meta tages, copy, headlines, etc.

We are number 1 for this term and have been for a long time.

[edited by: ciml at 2:32 pm (utc) on Dec. 2, 2004]
[edit reason] Examplified [/edit]

[OptiRex]

> if your keyword is in the domain name, title, description, meta tag, alt tags and all over your page, this could trip a filter.

Not so in our experience.

Totally agree with you TropicalIsland, we have been likewise for many years and, in fact, it has been essential to do so for other SEs etc. Whilst Google may currently be #1 one must prepare for as many eventualities as possible! It just would not make sense to construct so many pages without that information and then find it to be of importance later on.