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Why does John Scott keep the ugly keyword-keyword-keyword.com domain?

I’m just thinking out loud here but everytime I run into a mention of John Scott’s Internet Marketing blog (www.internet-marketing-blog.com) I can’t help but think the URL looks really spammy. It always reminds me of one of my first sites: 1-a1-best-price-viagra-store.com

Come on John. 301 that sucker to something with class!

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  1. March 4th, 2006 at 12:34 | #1

    Hi Tony

    I wish I had chosen something else. I wanted JohnScott.com (I don’t have any cool nicknames), but that was taken, and I used to be big on hyphenated keyword domains. I had webmaster-forum.net, internet-marketing-research.net, quality-web-hosting.net, etc, etc.

    Then I went on my branding crusade and everything became brand oriented (v7n.com, v7inc.com, etc) but my blog remains the same old keyword domain.

    I guess it will serve as an experiment as to how people perceive keyword domains :)

  2. March 8th, 2006 at 18:13 | #2

    I think older “dashed” domains fair much better than new ones but I do agree that some just look spammy. I think John’s domain name doesn’t look too spammy though. But, this coming from someone who’s had their fair share of dashed domains.

    I think a domain would be reflected in a lessor light by having a poor design or content rather than the domain name itself.

    Hey Tony, you should’ve branded that Viagra domain of yours or at least had a few commercials made. :)

  3. Tony Spencer
    March 8th, 2006 at 18:35 | #3

    >Hey Tony, you should’ve branded that Viagra domain of yours or at least had a few commercials made. :)

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