Re: [cobalt-users] It's Only me ??

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 2/29/00 7:44 AM, WayneB6094@xxxxxxx at WayneB6094@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In a message dated 2/28/00 2:42:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> billgun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
>> 67 character url's are a good thing to use for registering sites with
>> search engines. You can Register Very-Populary-Search-Words.com and
>> then search engines will make a match with your domain name.
> 
> Sorry, but this is a myth.  The operators of the major search engines have
> said publicly that the domain name has little, if any, effect on search
> results.  Even the long ones.

I can confirm that domain names (long ones that is) have very little if
anything to do with the major search engines.  Short and obvious ones for a
specific product (group) or service are more successful due to people just
typing the word into their browser location bar and hitting enter.

Even metatags have very little to do with the search engines now days.  Most
of them use their own search algorithms to match up actual content
instead--easier to be consistent and accurate this way.

And 'priority' or ranking (in spider search engines) is almost always based
upon the number of sites linking to you.

For more information, read http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters

-k