I was curious about how domain companies rank for a variety of Google searches, and I thought I would post the results. Below is the top Google result for a variety of domain related keywords:
Domain Names: Godaddy
Domains: Godaddy
Domain Sales: DNJournal
Domain Broker: iGoldrush.com
Domain Auction (and Auctions): Sedo
Domain Conference: DomainFest
Domain Lawyer: DNForum
Domain News: DomainNews.com
Domain Blog: DomainBlog.net
Domain Investing: ElliotsBlog.com
Domain Investor: MorganLinton.com
Domaining: Domaining.com
Domainer: Wikipedia
Domain Consultant: DomainConsultant.com
Domain Consulting: DomainConsultant.com
Domain Registrar: Wikipedia
Whois: Whois.net
ccTLD Domain Names: Wikipedia
IDN Domain Names: Wikipedia
There is life below #1 🙂 but I would also suggest the following keyword phrases…
Premium Domains
Premium Domain Names
Generic Domains
Generic Domain Names
Buy Domain
Buy Domains
Dominios
Comprar Dominios
Dominios Genericos
Dominios en Español
domain appraisal: Estibot.com
premium domains: PremiumDomains.com
cheap domains: NameCheap.com
bargain domains: BargainDomains.com
escrow / domain escrow: Escrow.com
register domain: Register.com
numeric domains: NumericDomains.com
domain parking: Wikipedia
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It shouldn’t be to anyone’s surprise to see 5/19 of Elliots and 4/8 of Francois’s lists included exact match domains. Also 6/18 of Elliot’s were dominated by big brands (Goaddy & Wikipedia).
While an exact match domain doesn’t guarantee a #1 ranking, it can sure add a boost that requires non-EMD domains to work a little harder on their linkbuilding.
I’m not surprised by the top two but am surprised that if you search for “domain registrars” that wikipedia comes up, I would have thought that some of the major registrars like HG, Bluehost or GD would come up for this search term!.
No surprise to see GoDaddy in the top spot.