How is your BANS marathon going? Keeping you busy?

You, James, and SEO Diva are making me feel much better about my poorly chosen domain names. I will work on making them focus on whatever I chose for them and hope for the best. On the plus side, some are already getting traffic and Google has indexed most of them (a few were deindexed for reasons I can’t figure out while they were parked. Grrrr!)

BTW, what is Vic’s site? I don’t think I’m familiar with it.

Rochelle

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I think keyword domains help some with SEO, but they’re not everything by any means.

When you have an online site like BANS, you’re not really marketing a brand so the domain name itself won’t necessarily matter to many searchers. Some will look at the domain name, but most just read the title and if it’s what they’re looking for, they’ll click on it.

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On the subject of keyworded domains. I wouldn’t worry so much about that. In my opinion, based on buying domains since about 2001, it’s not that much of a success factor.

My first BANS site was created on a website power promoters site I purchased for website promotions and ads. I found that having hyphens between each word was a pain in the behind so I shelved it for a while.

Then when BANS became available, well when I actually purchased the script I decided to use that domain. It is a few years old now but the keywords in the name have nothing to do with the topic but it makes me a bit of money.

I would concentrate more on making the domains unique. So many others are just popping out BANS sites one after the other but they are generic to say the least so in my eyes they are just becoming more clutter online.

My second BANS site is a garden site and the domain is just hbb2obm which was another marketing site I started. I found I was way over working myself and shelved it as well. Then dragged it out for a garden site and it makes me money without it being a keyworded domain.

Not to say that keyworded domains aren’t going to benefit you I am just saying it’s only one factor.

I only have 4 BANS sites right now but I am planning on making more. I have just been having trouble getting my script to work since the move from CJ to eBay.

I wish I had the time to crank them out that fast!
I am planning 100 by the end of the year – and am still on number 3!

I am mainly working on a “master template” to apply to all of them first, so they don’t look like obvious BANS stores.

Keep up the hard work! – and get on with sorting the room!

I too picked some really cool url names before I knew what I was doing. Then I learned a little bit, and felt discouraged because I’d wasted money on them. But I’ve been doing a lot of reading of some of the top online money makers and the consensus is, if you do the right work, ANY domain name can be a winner.

Which makes sense. This isn’t a get rich quick scheme, so it should require time and effort to be successful. If all it took was a popular keyword in the url, we’d all be rich by now!

I don’t know if I can knock out as many as you did in the same time period, but I’m encouraged now and will put those lazy url’s to work.

BTW, I love Vic’s site. He’s a bit over the top sometimes, but he’s got great info and insights that have been really helpful to me.

Upward and onward!

Alice

If you haven’t checked it out, look at bloggerunleashed.com

It’s not my site, but I’ve learned alot from Vic.

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