Question about Domain Masking for SEO

[Umpyman]

Just a quick question - I understand from many posts that having the keywords as part of the domain name can/should help in terms of search engines. Would this hold true for a domain masking situation?

In other words, if I register a domain name with a cheapie registrar but wish to have that name pointing to a page within my existing site on my existing host's server (so we're not paying for another hosting plan and can keep all pages together under one umbrella) will that help or not affect ranking?

I'd like to register super-dee-duper-widgets.com and have it point to mysite.com/super-dee-duper-widgets.html.

Did I ask that correctly?

Umpyman

[bhartzer]

I understand from many posts that having the keywords as part of the domain name can/should help in terms of search engines.

For search engine ranking purposes, keywords in the domain name is pretty much useless--it used to matter but it doesn't matter any more. Keywords in the url (filename) matter just as much as keywords in the domain name.

I'd like to register super-dee-duper-widgets.com and have it point to mysite.com/super-dee-duper-widgets.html.

Unless you already have a lot of links going to super-dee-duper-widgets.com and you're redirecting using a 301 Permanent Redirect it won't matter whatsoever.

[Umpyman]

Thanks for the response - so no advantage at all to having our main keywords in the domain name, or even in page names?