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Hello Kevin
I should have invested in longtail keywords I did know there are useful but I didn't think that useful for traffic.
Yes I can see your point longtail keywords are more specific and so far more likely to get the conversion
I'll have to start writing some blog posts quickly 
thanks for the information.
I was listening to a podcast on site visibility's website and they were discussing www.hittail.com which is a piece of software which analyzes lists your
visitor stream in real-time and provides actionable list of precisely which
keywords the website should be targeting to dramatically grow your organic
search traffic using long tail key words.
The say they can come up with a list of long tail keywords which the
website could easily rank for hopefully straightaway in the top five positions
on Google and other search engines by creating a blog post are some relevant
content. Or you could use the information to form some anchor text links etc
They say it's possible to produce up to 80% more traffic organically
once you are aware of which keywords are being overlooked by the website and
then produce the relevant content.
The theory is that most people focus on the high traffic short tail
keywords and overlook the long tail keywords and I got to admit I actually fall
into that category unfortunately.
Anybody uses particular website? And what is your experience of targeting the
longtail keywords have they produce good results ?
Yes I've seen results suggesting that social media represents 5 to 10% of your search engine rankings if you're particularly liked. But the bigger question is not are you producing or social results just because you want to influence your rankings. If you are genuinely behind a product that you're selling you'll enjoy the social into reaction because it becomes a individual personal representation of your product. And if you think about links, the most powerful links will always be from websites that you like to form
some relationship with. Quality websites, quality content, quality relationships, quality results. Have a look at me, Mr Google
I didn't know about the pay per click relevance of having the exact domain name match to the product being sold but I can see how that could be very important if you are heavily into Google ad words, but for a smaller company it wont be of great benefit becouse I'm not intending of spending much in that direction, but thanks for the information.
That's what I find slightly hard to understand, there are a reasonable number of
online retailers with good levels of stock, like this one which has a bricks
and mortar shop in a prime location in town where they pay around £1000 a month just for the rent, this is their website http://www.whitbyjetjewellery.net/ So why don't they jump at the chance of getting the exact match domain? Do you think it's purely down to lack of knowledge by their SEO person! I realise some of them won’t actually invested much in their online marketing but surely some of them have. Easier to understand if the domain retailer had beenasking $5,000 for the domain, but like you pointed out at $300 it was peanuts.
I have done, it's actually now functioning the domain is live and there will be a website there later this week thanks for the encouragement
Marcus I don't want to be picky but if I decide to go with your suggestion could I have to domain name without the hyphens?www.Iwantedwhitbyjetbutthiswasallthatasleft.com might not be as readable but it would be better for my SEO wouldn't it?Anywhere nice little story and I'm glad you got the domain name you wanted eventually, I bet they thought it was going to be a bowler hat retailer the eventually slapped the cash down
It certainly puts things in perspective, people take much more for their names in the small businesses, an exact match.com is so much better than having to extend the domain. Things are moving along with the purchase of the domain name, I did send out quite a few push e-mails worrying that there was some kind of con going on, with it being sold through intermediate company. Progress is happening now I will be a little bit more patient
Thanks a lot Ryan I was not at all worried about the price of the domain I was just surprised it was available, and I know exactly what you mean long-term the benefits of an exact match.com domain name far outweigh the costs even for a small business. Somebody was trying to sell www.whitby-jet.co.uk /for $1600 so I'm very pleased with the price. In this particular business of WJ there are quite a few prominent sellers you'd think they'd wise up by the right domain name to do the job properly, can it really be that they are SEO ignorant? I can only think it is the case.
Well I agree with everything that everybody said I have already purchased www.whitbyjet.com to be perfectly honest if it hadn't been for Ryan last week who took the time to check the domain name and pointed out it was the sale, I would never have looked to see if it was available, assuming it must be taken by a company. Whitby Jet isn't the biggest business in the world but there are many jewellers trading it on the Internet, and businesses in the town itself with some of the pieces selling in four figure numbers so it makes you wonder why these companies have invested that small amount of money from the advantages they would get? Whitby jet became extremely popular after Prince Albert died 1870 and Queen Victoria wore Whitby jet with it being black, for many years in mourning and increase the products profile. At one time this small fishing town had over 1000 workers, exporting over £100,000 worth of the products in 1872 which will be millions of pounds in today's money.
I thinking very similar to yours EGOL I am aiming to be "the Man" Whitby jet on the net, I was very excited at the prospect of building the website round that domain, it certainly given me a lot stronger incentives to make the product sales high quality, aiming to establish "the brand"
I wasn't asking the question from a complete lack of experience but I put this question on the forum here last week…How much would you pay for a key rich domain name with the correct extension?
I'm setting up a new website to sell Whitby Jet and one of the members of this forum suggested I should buy the domain name www.whitbyjet.com it was for sale for $300 or £200 in UK money and they thought it was a bargain. I thought it was worth the cost even though I've never paid anywhere near that amount for a domain name.
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There is a company offering www.whitby-jet.co.uk or £1500 ?!!!!
I have bought key rich domain names before, which were very descriptive also but only paid the registration fee with no additional costs
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I just wondered how much members of this forum have paid for domain names. And why they thought it was worth the cost... SEO Branding etc.?
By the way the company that was acting as the intermediate for my new doaminis is an absolute pain. They didn't perform the transfer process quickly until I bombarded them with emails
My new domain is still not working one week down the line. In the past I bought a domain cheap and it has been working within 24 hours directly.
I bought the domain whitbyjet.com for $300 and I'm pleased that I've got such a specific domain name with the two main keywords. Thanks for the help
Absolutely over the years I bought lots of different domain names, and I always thought I would never pay for one which was held for profit, but when you consider how useful it could be I think 300 American dollars is not bad at all, I presume they often suffer much more than this? I've never really studied the subject
Thank you everybody for the good advice, I agree jewellery is not a good word to include in the domain, I was considering whitbyjetuk.com But I just wanted to say thank you to especially Ryan because I never checked I just assumed that whitbyjet.com would be taken by a company selling the product, how stupid of me! I think you are very much correct just for the fact that it's the perfect two words.com it's worth the money, I would never previously thought of buying a domain which was held and just for sale, but when you consider it is not a great deal of money and long-term most definitely be worth the cost. I'm going to buy that particular one, once again thank you Ryan.
I'm starting a new business selling Whitby Jet and I want to buy the best domain name which will help me in the search engines, I want to use the keywords in the domain name because it think it will help when people link to the website, but whitbyjet.com and whitbyjet.co.uk have both been taken. I could be wrong I think .com is generally thought of as the best and I don't really like the idea of .net or .org
So maybe I might have to choose the third word which tends to make the doamin a little bit longer like
Any suggestions would be greatly received.
The 301 redirects was quite easy to set up, but I've actually found a better solution using Dreamweaver for my problem. I replaced all the old pages where I'd broken the template in the sub folder with new versions which are attached to the template with the correct copy and paste the content and title tags. So all the pages which are indexed and now the new looking version.
The one thing I've learnt from this episode is that if you don't know how to operate a particular piece of software and you can't get the answers you require immediately, be patient until you know how to do things correctly.
It saves time in the long run..............
I have no idea what htaccess files are, but I guess I will have to learn.
If a 301 redirect can simply transfer the old webpage directly through to the new one that surely must be the simple answer. Along of course within the incoming link juice.
Is that the case and if so that it will be my project for tomorrow morning as it's 2 AM in the UK
I have just deleted the name of the subdirectory and kept the new blog webpages within the template of the website the same url.
It's very likely that there will be some back links coming into the old blog pages so would it be worthwhile to in the redirect 301?
or just deete the old indexed pages ..
Old
http://www.endeavourcottage.co.uk/whitby-blog/Whitby-lifeboats.html
New
The original blog webpages were created about six months ago and they are indexed if you search etc.
I have just today updated the blog entirely so that it is part of the Dreamweaver template by copying the content from the old pages to the new, painful boring!
So the online website blog now has links going to the new pages moved from the subfolder address.
To people that drop into the blog page now see only the new version only, which matches the rest of the website design and template. I forgot to mention the updated in design recently to list other holiday cottages that are clients and that is why I primarily wanted to change these old blog posts to match the new template which now advertises the new holiday cottages I represent as a letting agent.
If I leave the updated blog page now will Google update the URLs of the blog posts links to the new URLs of the blog posts?
Or should redirect the old original blog posts with a 301 the redirect? I've never done a 301 redirects is it difficult?
I paid somebody to build my website using Dreamweaver, and at one point I didn't know how to use the template which automatically updates every page in the menu section so I stupidly broke the template on every new page when I made the websites blog and put the pages into a subfolder. I realised this was a silly thing to do and now and I now know how to use the template correctly I've copied every single page over from the subfolder and put it into the main template.
Now I can update the template menu and every page changes automatically. The only problem is I've now got two versions of every page of my blog on the website.
For some reason when I do a sitemap it comes up with a links to the old blog pages I, don't know why when I've removed the links from the blog page? and also the new copies also. I have basically got a copys of all blog pages.
Do you think it will be a good idea to delete old indexed blog pages off the server so that when Google spiders the site it will pick up only the new links to the copy pages?