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Ask HN: Is having a website HelloWorldHQ.com bad for SEO?

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Re: Ask HN: Is having a website HelloWorldHQ.com bad for SEO?

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Bad names are good for SEO. Good names have no intrinsic SEO value.

e.g. Twitter, Skype, Foursquare are all pretty good names. But have no SEO benefit.

e.g. local-activities.com is good for SEO, but I've already forgotten it, it's so generic.

So do you want to build a big business, or just a nice tickover organic traffic-based business. That's the decision. If it's the former, go for a great name. If it's the latter, go with SEO.

Re: Ask HN: Is having a website HelloWorldHQ.com bad for SEO?

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Bad names are good for SEO. Good names have no intrinsic SEO value. e.g. Twitter, Skype, Foursquare are all pretty good names. But have no SEO benefit. e.g. local-activities.com is good for SEO, but I've already forgotten it, it's so generic. So do you want to build a big business, or just a nice tickover organic traffic-based business. That's the decision. If it's the former, go for a great name. If it's the latter,…

Thanks for your advice!! This was wxacty what I was thinking off too. Gut feels says to focus in building up the community and the world will spread online. Even if HelloWorld is already a heavily used term in programming