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Hello,

Thanks for your response. This is a bit controversial, as many research shows that choosing 'correct' key phrase TLD will have significant impact on ranking.

But imagine scenario where even OPT2 can only be achieved with hyphens!?

Do you still recommend using OPT2 in such case?

Please let me know.

Thanks.

Hello world

I have searched among tons of quality articles here on forums, but surprisingly I haven't found topic that goes into the deep water when it comes to a specific KW rich domain problem.

Let me first state that I'm mainly based this topic on the information found in following blog posts by randfish (that guru with the beard).

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/exact-match-domains-are-far-too-powerful-is-their-time-limited

and

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements

My questions is only related to RANKING aspect of the domains - NOT how is sounds, smell or dance.

As all good simple .COM KW domain combinations are already taken, only thing that is left is to be a bit creative using non .COMs exact match, hyphens .COM exact match, all query terms .COM with a letter or word added etc.

QUESTION and case study

I found a good keyword phrase, let us called it 'super domain' with low competition & high monthly searches and great revenue possibilities.

Naturally, first step is to acquire a exact match .COM domain (EMD).

But, of course, that is not possible because 'superdomain.com' and super-domain.com has already been taken by some greedy domain broker waiting someone to pay $1.000.000 for it. Not an option.

What options do I got?

OPT1)  superdomainA.COM (keyword phrase with added 'A' at the end)

OR

OPT2) superdomain.ORG/NET/INFO (keyword phrase on non .COM TLD)

I couldn't find any studies with test and clear results regarding this subject.

This is VERY important because, regarding to the links I posted, there is a 0.10 better correlation if choosing OPT1)  superdomainA.COM, even if using exact match domain OPT2) superdomain.ORG/NET.

But they haven't been cross tested in that results in the same post. So it's big '?' sign to me.

As SEO market is getting more and more competitive, it is important to not leave anything to chance. I would appreciate if randfish, or anybody else could give some inputs about this.

Thanks in advance!

For me it is important that it doesn't hurt my rankings - I don't believe that I can boost my ranking by adding H1 twice on the page, that was not my intention. Good to know that I'll be on the safe side - still

Thanks people.

Thanks for answering. So your suggestion is that I shall stay away from repeating same headline message twice on the page by duplicate whole H1 line twice?

Thanks.

"Of course, doing this across every page on your site may seem a little spammy."

Well isn't that same logic as marketers are doing by placing CTA on every sub-page? That was my idea behind this - to repeat a core headline statement on every page + CTA button under.

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Hello people,

I know that majority of SEO gurus (?) claim that H1 tag should only be used once per page.

In the landing page design I'm working with, we actually need to repeat our core message stated in H1 & H2 - at the bottom of the page.

Now the question is: Can that in any way cause any ranking penalty from big G? In my eyes that is not attempt to over optimize page as it contains SAME info as the H1 & H2 at the top of the page.

Confusing, so I'm hope that some SEO gurus here will share some light on this.

Thanks in advance!