Steel Wheels wrote on Sep 13
th, 2013 at 4:42pm:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you search for a website and include the .com or whatever, isn't it always the first result?
well...this site isn't rocksoff.com (that site is registered to a concert promoter). That's part of the problem. Plus the fact that if you're banned from a search engine, its simply not going to show no matter what the URL is. At all. Which can lead to a huge reduction in traffic and possibly end up affecting the viability of funding the site to begin with.
Steel Wheels wrote on Sep 13
th, 2013 at 4:42pm:
And who searches like that anyway? If I am looking for rollingstones.com, I'll just type it into the address bar and go right to it.
People who arent familiar with the site or who dont know the address. Or who may stumble across the site by searching for something else Stones-related other than the site name (eg 'Rolling Stones Setlists' etc). If youre trying to attract new people to a site, the point of being registered on google isnt really aimed at the audience you already have who have bookmarked the site anyway.