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Can a domian be too long?

Posted: 13 years ago 8 replies

Just wondering if a domain can be too long that google might penalize it?

#domian #long

Mister Rex

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13 years ago

I dont know about penalizing, but it doesnt help from a user experience perspective. Some domains are long due to branding, and rank just fine. If you try to stuff keywords in the domain, it isnt going to do you any good.

Just remember that Google truncates long URLs, so the longer domain is at a slight disadvantage, but it isnt something that concern me, because as long as the site quality is good, the domain name will be fine.
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13 years ago

Well I had to google "truncate" but thank you for the answer.
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  Well I had to google "truncate" but thank you for the answer.
  
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13 years ago

Google will not penalize it but you may not rank as well as you would if it wasn't super long. I wouldn't go longer than three or four words...
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13 years ago

I have one that is about 30 letters, do feel it is too long but it is also good for SEO as it fits exactly into the keywords I need.
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13 years ago

I've got plenty of 25-33 letter domains that rank just fine and get plenty of traffic.
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13 years ago

I dont know about Penalizing wht is it?
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13 years ago

Let me bring update you that there no risk of penalty from Google if your domain name contains wide amount of character as long one domain name. However you can use your domain name up to 150 character as it's own limitation of Google, but you won't be able to promote your inner pages as the situation, so keep short your domain name to get better result in Google.
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