Which domain name is better?

I would always go for the longer one. That way you could use the shorter and longer phrase as anchor text and rank for both. Or you could just focus on the longer phrase and you might find that you will start ranking for the shorter one anyway after some time. Get red widgets to #1 and you'll have a massive headstart with red widget.

Neither of the domains are ideal.. I hate .info domains as they take a bit longer to get indexed by the search engines..

But you're going for search volume, so the .info would be the way to go, unless rewidget.co is available, if it is that's what i'd register.

Mark

Hi alive,

For that amount of searches for "red widget" there must some serious competition.

I would get both and work on both at the same time and see what works better as i like to test a lot even if it's a lot of work.

If you have to choose and you know your competition and you know that you can handle your competitors then go for redwidget.info.

An exact match domain is not necessary to rank well for your chosen keywords you know, onpage and offpage seo is.

Best of luck,

ProWebster

Both have same weightage but going with .com is very good where as nothing be degraded with having - in the domain. While _ will be degrades the domain. As far as I'm concern from my experience of 4 years in IM.

Go with a dot com domain and try as best as you can to keep the keywords together. There will be a difference in opinion on this one, but for me I have always found this approach to be more effective. If redwidget.com is not available, try redwidgetreviews.com or redwidgetreview.com or something along those lines. Also consider going for a .NET if the .COM options aren't available. Dot Info is said to work fairly ok (according to some), but let that be your last resort.

Hope this helps.

prowebster brought up the important point that nobody is talking about...

Have you checked competition?

If a KW is getting almost 50k searches month (provided they are exact match, not broad match), then chances are the competition is pretty stiff. If that's the case, then your domain name is only the first of the issues you need to think about.

Check out what the competing sites on the first page of google are and if they look beatable.

Then check the competition for both the singular and plural versions of your KW to see what the carryover is between the two.

As far as domains go, EMD + .com, .net, or .org is of course the most recommended. But if you can't find one of those, then it's not the end of the world. Personally, I'd just add a stop letter (e.g. - redwidgetv.com). Some people like hyphenated domains, but I've not seen them do overly well. YMMV.

And I've seen enough .info domains rank well that the whole ".info domains suck" argument doesn't fly w/me. I'd still use a stop letter .com before I would .info, but that's just me. A .info isn't as bad as many who read too many forums like to say.

Hi Alive, I suggest you check the competitions on both of the keywords first, then decide which ever has the lowest competition then go for that domain. I also suggest that you use .com domains if possible.

After reading comments here, and my expertless in IM, .info can beat .com sometimes.
I agree with how well u tune ur site to crank up.
but .info associated to cheap domain where many domain seller gives more discounts price for .info