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A Question about Domain Name selection.

by TuNguyen
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Hi guy,

Quick question about domain names for the purposes of SEO. Below is a completely fictitious scenario made up to help put the question into context.

I am trying to target the keyword "Electric Cars".

"Electric Cars" has 4,500 searches a month. ElectricCars.com is taken, however ElectricCars.net is available.

"Electric Car" (note singular) only has 1000 searches per month, however ElectricCar.com is available.

In your personal opinion, which of the domains above should I purchase for the purposes of SEO and why?

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author sovereignn
    Just got with the .net

    Or go with something different, don't put too much emphasis on domain name it's not as important as you may think.

    In fact why not just make a bigger authority site like this

    cartypes . com

    then you can have cartypes . com/electriccars

    and also cartypes . com/ecofriendlycar

    Think of a long haul that can make real money not just a small site that will make you a little bit now
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  • Profile picture of the author Mary Davis
    Why not get both and test them for a month -- whichever one gets better traffic, just do a redirect of #2 to #1 . The additional $10 seems nominal to get the extra traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author adam337
    With proper SEO any site can be rank high. But EMD is an advantage. Just follow sovereignn's post. He made it clear.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnbritto495
    choose country based domain if you finalize to target your country else choose Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD)
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  • Profile picture of the author HN
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    Originally Posted by TuNguyen View Post

    "Electric Cars" has 4,500 searches a month. ElectricCars.com is taken, however ElectricCars.net is available.

    "Electric Car" (note singular) only has 1000 searches per month, however ElectricCar.com is available.
    I would go with dot com. Google will rank both singular and plural versions, so you might rank for electric cars. Also the singular word 'electric car' has a lot more long tail keywords than 'electric cars'.

    Electric Car - Keyword Research

    Electric Cars - Keyword Research
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