Appropriate domain name

[vijayvasu]

Hello Awesome MOzzers,

Hope you are all well this fab wednesday.

I have a questions -

how good or bad is this domain - www.web-design-company-inc.com for a web design company.

I have heard some people say google no longer cares about keywords in the URL?

Would love to know your thoughts.

As always - much obliged for your insight.

Best regards,

Vijay

[UnderRugSwept]

I think when people say Google no longer cares about keywords in the domain that that's total crap. One of my sites is #1 for the exact keyword I want, and I do no SEO for it whatsoever. It's only a PR2 and the on-page is a total mess. I never do anything to market or promote it. The sites below it are much better sites, and clearly do a lot of SEO work and link-building. Yet, my site remains #1 and has been for the past five years, all because it's an exact-match keyword, and NOT long-tail.

As far as hyphens in the domain goes, I've heard somewhere that's not the best practice, but I'm sorry to say I can't remember where and can't back that up. Maybe someone else will chime in.

[vijayvasu]

Thank you Marisa, much appreciated buddy.

[bradkrussell]

Good still places a huge importance on exact match keywords in the URL. I've got a number of small sites that rank number 1 for their specific keyword all due to the URL and very basic on site optimisation.

As for that particular domain name, to me it looks a little long and spammy. I agree with Marisa regarding the hypens, I would try and limit those. I'm sure these have been taken, but try something like:

www.webdesignco.com

www.webdesignseattle.com (or wherever you are based)

www.web-design-company.com

www.webdesignseattle.com

Etc. Anyway, I would just shorten it a bit and try and limit the hypens.