Alphanumeric
Priority
of Domain Names
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On deciding on a good domain name, keep in mind that some
Search Engines use what is called
alphanumeric
priority of domain names as an
important factor in their ranking formulas.
Alphanumeric hierarchy is even more important to Web site
marketing, because this method is used by directories, which
strictly list sites in alphanumeric order based on the results
of the keyword(s) search.
Your Web site marketing plan must acknowledge
Yahoo! because Yahoo! is the number
one directory and search site with 52.7 million different
visitors each month, accounting for 69.1 percent of all
Internet surfers. An astounding 53.4 percent of all
search-related traffic comes from Yahoo!, or as much as half
the traffic received to many sites. Many prefer to use
Yahoo! because each site submitted to
Yahoo! is human-reviewed, delivering more
accurate search results for their visitors.
To include alphanumeric hierarchy in your web site marketing
strategy, realize that alphanumeric priority does not only
consist of letters, it includes numbers that can rank higher
than an "A".
This is the
order:
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S
T U V W X Y Z
This means that the domain "www.1-800-abc-sports-news.com.au"
will rank higher with the Search Engines that use alphanumeric
priority in their ranking algorithms, than just "www.abc-sports-news.com.au"
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