Is it possible to rank your website url as a keyword?

hitmeasap Level X⁵

November 27, 2016, 3:18 pm

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Is it possible to rank your website url as a keyword?

Hey guys,
During these last couple of days I've asked multiple questions about SEO, Ranking, Keywords and so on..

Take this site as an example. The website url is SEOClerks.com
The name is therefore SEOClerks.

That's what most of us would say in case we ever talked about SEOClerks. We would say SC or SEOClerks. And not "Oh, SEOClerks.com is cool". You get my point, right?

So, what I wonder is, would it be possible to actually rank your website url alone, as a keyword, without ranking any other keywords at all?

This question might sound weird and/or odd, and I'm sorry for that, if that's the case. I'm just curious to know. Let me know if I need to explain this in a better way

Best Regards,
hitmeasap

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Cristian

Cristian

Every website will rank for its name plus TLD I believe. For example, if I buy ilovecristian.com and type " ilovecristian.com" into Google, I'll probably be the first result. But since " ilovecristian.com" doesn't have any searches I may want to rank for "ilovecristian" (let's say this one does have monthly searches and quite the competition). It will be way more harder for me to rank for "ilovecristian" since other people are already targeting this keyword. I would have to create much better content and get some relevant backlinks. In the end I believe I will have the upper hand since I have the exact match keyword in my domain name.

8 years ago

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Everett

Everett

You can always try to rank http://example.com/ or example.com, and see what happens. I think it may be possible, as sometimes when I am entering keywords, you see the "Searches related to" section includes URLs, and even domain names themselves when you're not entering a domain name or URL. I think some people are doing this, but I also tend to believe that they do not properly understand what SEO is, or trying to rank something in hopes people will search for it. It could make you look foolish, but it could be good, that is if you want to rank for odd keywords..

I think I would be wasting my time to rank for the domain, or URL. I mean, the URL is already present within the search, and surely you will get a result if you entered just the URL, that is my thinking anyway. But back to this horses vs dogs keyword domain URL search term.. this would not go so well because your domain says something entirely different than what the content is actually about so you could probably "confuse" the algorithm and it will most likely rank on the content keywords, or it will have a negative impact because the content doesn't fit into the domain if that makes sense.

8 years ago

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Lynne

Lynne

Andre from what I have heard using a keyword for your url is a great move, you can get some nice organic traffic in just from your url...

However just because you have that keyword in your url does not mean you will automatically be ranked #1 if you use that keyword. It might be a competitive keyword and of course that might mean that finding a keyword for your url that has a lot of organic traffic is not as easy as you think.

However when your website starts to rank and over time as your website gains in strength you should be ranked for it.

An example here is that if you type into Google "living with addiction" you will find my website on page 2 of Google with those keywords in my url. I get some organic traffic from that keyword

8 years ago

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hitmeasap

hitmeasap

"living with addiction" - First page and 6th place. - That's truly awesome Lynne! - I guess you've ranked higher since you wrote that. That's Incredible!

8 years ago

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vinaya

vinaya

The domain name and site title (if it is different from the domain name) both matter in search engine ranking. I have published books on Amazon, I am on various social media sites, I have also published articles on various writing sites as well as my blogs. However, until recently, I did not have a personal website. I launched my website vinayaghimire.info. Before, I launched my website when ever I Googled my name, facebook profile and amazon profile would appear on the top, how my website is on #1 spot.

7 years ago

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Corzhens

Corzhens

I sometimes search for the URL when someone gives me a reference that is important like that one about the insulin plant. When I searched for the name of the site, I seem not to find it so what I did was to search for the URL. More often that not, the only difference between the site’s name and the URL is the suffix of the domain name directory if it is a dot com or dot net or any other dot.

6 years ago

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