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Hi Henrik,

Yes, Google will index all the pages it crawls on the internet unless it is told to "noindex", the value of the link is the equivalent that Google would give to any website which is based on it's own algorithm.

After all, a search engine is just another website.

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

Youtube is a huge site and is probably crawled daily, I would imagine if your link is not showing up after several months then there must be something wrong on your side.

Would you care to share the Youtube channel, I understand if you don't want to but just trying to help.

Does your link from youtube contain WWW or without it? Have you checked inbound links to your site using OSE for the same?

I can't really see how this an SEO issue as nothing links back to your website from that website.(that i can see)

If you are just asking does it damage your reputation as a writer, then my answer would be "Yes"

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.

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

Hi Jon,

If your homepage is targetting "Recycling Bins", then your categories could be called "For Home" , "For Office".

Then you could have a page title "Recycling Bins For Home", also your breadcrumbs would look good Recycling Bins>For Home

Just adding my  thoughts.

You can still target them keywords even by not including "recycling bins" in the category name.

You can optimize on each page by using meta title,content,headers etc..

Hi,

You will benefit from having the keywords in the URL, with regards to the manual management, well that is really up to how much work you want to do.

If you are creating new pages, you should re-direct all the old pages to their relevant new pages to keep their juice.

Dependining on how many styles you have but you should keep your outbound links low, have you considered using taxonomy once the visitor is on the Styles pages, they can then sort by Style.

Hope this helps.

Hi Jon,

If your homepage is targetting "Recycling Bins", then your categories could be called "For Home" , "For Office".

Then you could have a page title "Recycling Bins For Home", also your breadcrumbs would look good Recycling Bins>For Home

Just adding my  thoughts.

Does your link from youtube contain WWW or without it? Have you checked inbound links to your site using OSE for the same?

You could still:

For Page Speed

Cache Static Content

Serve Content (Images etc..) from CDN

Other Factors:

Place Breadcrumbs on Site

Set up a Facebook "Fan" page and get some social signals pointing towards the site.

You have 7 links in the footer pointing to another page, all with different keywords, you should remove them or at least just have one link there and if you place breadcrumbs on the website, the "Web Design" page will be linking back to the homepage

Also, as Dan said, build some more links. Hope this helps