Numerous keyword rich domains - good or bad for SEO ?

[WebSEOsoftware.com]

Is having numerous keyword rich domains good or bad for SEO with Google?

It has long been suggested that website owners should consider buying numerous keyword rich domains, but what are the pros and cons?

If you try to acheive an unfair advantage with the search engines by having lots of different domains showing the same site, then you will run into trouble with the search engines.

It can be good to own obvious domain names that web-surfers may naturally type in to a browser, but make sure to park them all at one domain and then forward the whole lot via a permanent 301 - redirect to your main site, example: ip*d.com (can't show real name for spam purposes on this site!) redirects to apple.com.

The other reason for having multiple domains would be for completely different sites on each domain. If you have more than one site, they really should each provide different info in order for them to be effective. Do not forget, maintaining many sites is a lot more work than just maintaining one site!

[VladTepes]

Having keywords on domain of a site will not eventually guarantee good listing. Still it's contents, structured, importance of information the site provide, as well as good link building are the main factors. But of course it could be a plus factor. Each site should have different contents and it surely bunch of work.

[Ka-canor]

Yup, I agree with you dude awesome motivation.

[meanmachine29]

you cant have different domains pointing to the one site, Google hates duplicate content so would disguard all but the first one you used.

[Copybuild]

The longer the keywords in the domain is, the lesser the relevance of the words inside it. Keywords in domain name helps, but not a lot!

[joesearch]

I have seen some sites get away with having quite a few keyword rich domains with url forwarding to their main site and they get good results. However, I think that this success may well be short lived and seems like a very risky practice if there is no actual content on each of the separate domain names

[BettingMaster]

I think keywords in domain are very important.
Even without a lot of backlinks you can rank good with just your domain name...
Depends..

[DuncanWhite]

That's right Friend.


http://www.forgan.co.uk

[daBlogger]

I've done SEO for similar sites with keyword-rich content, and it always seems those with shorter ".com" names WITH the keyword in the domain fare much better. I'm not certain you can credit this to the keyword in the domain or if it was other factors, but that's been my experience.

Age of registration is important too, with a domain established in 1998 being much more valuable than one established in 2008. But thtat'll cost you some dough!

[shakir]

I think keywords in domain are very important.
Even without a lot of backlinks you can rank good with just your domain name...
Depends..

I dont thing keyword in domain is worth for SE ranking. its better for direct traffic but for SE all domains are same even other extension like .info, .net etc

[adserver]

you should avoid duplicate content.

I would avoid making entry pages with these as well.

I think it would be fine if you had one keyword rich domain for each niche that you were working in.