You are a genious if you answer this!
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I have looked everywhere to find the answer to this but cannot find it.
How do you get the search engines to treat a domain hack as a word?
e.g if you search "whois" , who.is will return and the url will be highlighted in green showing that the search engines recognise it as a word.
I own a domain hack but when i search the keyword, it never returns with the url highlighted in green.
I would really appreciate any help on this.
Thanks,
Ronan
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Hi James,
I know that I can SEO it even if it as a domain hack because i have been doing so and have it ranking second.
I don't have anywhere near that amount of backlinks but I am not trying to rank it on .com, it is showing second in local Ireland Google but I still think that it is strong enough for local search to pick up on the hack as one word.
I guess the real question is, is there some code to be placed on the website or something to be done in webmasters, I don't think it can simply be about the amount of backlinks.
Any thoughts on this will help.
Thanks,
Ronan
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Well to be honest if it is a TLD which you can SEO even if it is a domain hack any thing can be possible imo.
.IS is the country code for iceland.
I have seen ranks for .me, .tv and many more wthin search engines.
I mean "www.who.is" has around 911 root domains, 45k links pointing to it.
What kind of numbers and SEO does your domain hack have?
Regards,
James.
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It ranks 2nd for it's keyword so I don't think it is to do with click through but I cannot guarantee that, I can only assume seeing that it ranks 2nd and gets visits.
There is other domains that do not get highlighted e.g ma.tt for keyword matt and de.licio.us for delicious but seeing that it does it for who.is, do they know something the rest of us don't because google is obviously picking up the hack as a keyword when it is highlighting it.
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Really? But your website appears in the listings yeah? As long as you are listed it should pick it up. If it doesn't my gut would lean towards lack of click-through's based on searches using that word to your domain, but I'd need test it.
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