SEO Tycoon

**Kirtan** · 10-05-2006, 11:20 AM

My site got #1 Rank in MSN And Lycos. But there is no Rank for mysite in yahoo and google upto 1000 Ranks

. It is because of my LONG URL problem, or i need to do more link building. Can any one help with this please?

**gringo** · 10-05-2006, 12:03 PM

Are there any more details about your site or shall we just guess

**vangogh** · 10-05-2006, 04:52 PM

The site in question would help as would the keywords which gave you the #1 rank in MSN and Lycos.

Short answer though is different search engines use different algorithms so ranking well in one doesn't mean ranking well in others.

**adquick** · 10-06-2006, 10:03 AM

i'm guessing its this URL in his signature, http://www.gx-affordable-web-design-...-services.com/ and yes that is a very long URL, but i'm not sure if search engines penalise you for having long domain names.

**Kirtan** · 10-06-2006, 01:07 PM

Yes. this is my url http://www.gx-affordable-web-design-...-services.com/ and "Affordable web design and hosting services" is my keyphrase. Any help? i don't think my site is sandboxed. coz some phrase in content is located by google. what else the problem?

**vangogh** · 10-06-2006, 02:56 PM

I'll be honest that the domain name looks on the spammy side. I realize that wasn't your intention, but I'm pretty sure that's how Google would see it. Usually you want to limit the number of dashes in a domain. The only reason you woud use that many is for the added keyword benefit, which probably isn't a lot.

The phrase you're going after is probably on the competitive side. Phrases around web design and web hosting are rather competitive. It's usually easier to rank well in MSN through on page factors along, but with Yahoo and Google you're going to need a lot more links pointing to your site before you can expect to rank for competitve phrases. Google also places weight on the age of a domain, site, page, links, etc so it will usually take the longest to rank well for comptetive terms.