Advice Needed Re: Choosing Domain Name
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My girlfriend is in the process of opening her own insurance agency here in our city that is scheduled to open Jan 1, 2011. She is an independent contractor of a large insurance company here in the United States.
She is throwing around ideas for her domain name for her website. I have a few examples I am going to give and I would greatly appreciate any and all thoughts on this. I am the last thing from an SEO expert, but I do know a little about it.
I know the success SEO can depend on how keyword rich the domain is, correct? She found hercityinsurance.com (her city obviously being the proper name of where she is located) for sale, but for around $2K. She plans on being in this area for literally decades, so it's not like this will be used for 1-2 years.
She had someone else who had claimed to do SEO work in the past just reccommend hercity then her state abbrev. insurance.net. Example would be RichmondVAInsurance.net. This is available. The .com version of this site is claimed and would be one of her competitors. The concern I had there was that in the offline market people tend to associate .com to every domain name.
The other option would be insurehercity&stateabbrev.com...which is available.
The keyword searches hercity insurance and hercity stateabbrev insurance gets around 2.9K and 1.9K monthly searches according to the adwords estimation tool.
How important are these keyword phrases in the domain name? What's everyone's thoughts about .com or .net?
All help is appreciated!
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