numbers in a domain????

[Justin]

I was thinking about this today... say I wanted to get a keyword rich domain, but all of the domains were taken with those keywords. Does adding numbers to a domain look bad to the search engines?

Ex. keyword : online poker

use onlinepoker333.com


I know a few big sites have numbers in them, such as Gambling911, so I dont know how big of a deal it is when your main focus would be SEO.

[adioking]

Not any different than having any other regular domain. However, you gain a huge advantage if you can get the EXACT domain. From my experience, onlinepoker.com would be WAY better than onlinepoker333.com. However, onlinepoker1.com would have the same value as onlinepoker333.com, but keeping it shorter might have a little bit more of an advantage to it.

Anybody else have opinions on this?

[PPP]

Numbers don't hurt you.