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The creator says exact-match domains can still help, but an already-ranking domain should not be abandoned because authority takes time.
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The creator says exact-match domains can still help, but an already-ranking domain should not be abandoned because authority takes time.
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This topic currently has 1 source records, 1 public insight cards, and 1 creators in the public Base2026 export.
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The creator says exact-match domains can still help, but an already-ranking domain should not be abandoned because authority takes time.
You should absolutely have a second website. So you have your main website for your brand. This is where you sell your products or offer services. And then you have a second website that's not affiliated with your brand at all and just serves as a resource for your industry. We have four clients that are doing this right now and it's incredibly effective...
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Should you have a second website for your brand in 2026? Yes. Here's why we're building...
You should absolutely have a second website. So you have your main website for your brand. This is where you sell your products or offer services. And then you have a second website that's not affiliated with your brand at all and just serves as a resource for your industry...
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You should absolutely have a second website. So you have your main website for your brand.
This is where you sell your products or offer services. And then you have a second website that's not affiliated with your brand at all and just serves as a resource for your industry.
We have four clients that are doing this right now and it's incredibly effective. We're about to start helping another client build their second website.
And so I just want to talk about how we plan to do it. Despite what you might have heard recently, blog posts are the most effective form of digital marketing right now.
I spoke about this in yesterday's video and explained how to pick the best topics. In short, blog posts are the easiest way to rank and the easiest way to affect the responses from large language models.
Having a second website gives you one more place that you can post blog posts to...
the main keywords you want to rank for is in the domain name. You may have heard that exact match domains don't carry as much weight as they used to and this is true, but the name of the website is the same as the term you're trying to rank for.
Google can't tell if people are searching for your brand by name or for the search term, making it much easier for you to rank. Now that being said, if you already have a domain with some pages ranking in Google, I wouldn't recommend starting over with a new domain.
It's gonna take some time to build up that authority. So let's talk about how to do that.
You're gonna need two things. You're gonna need content and links.
how many links you need depends on how competitive your industry is, but I don't recommend going out and buying a bunch of links in the first month. Start by getting some natural organic foundational links.
Send a few links from your own website, set up some social media profiles, reach out to any friends or partners that might be willing to link to you and see if there's any directories you can submit yourself to...