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13 years ago

what we vote for isn't important...what you want is a seo friendly domain. Do a keyword research and see what people are searching for in that niche.

Anyway, I think parentingdifficultkids.com seem to stick with your target audience (moms not boys)

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JustinDupre

13 years ago

You should try a shorter domain name for a forum. Try 2 words or at least shorter term for each term. If anything I agree 3. ParentingDifficultKids.com is the best one.

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Originally Posted by JustinDupre

You should try a shorter domain name for a forum. Try 2 words or at least shorter term for each term. If anything I agree 3. ParentingDifficultKids.com is the best one.

I know what you're saying - it's just difficult to find shorter names available but i will keep looking.

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Jun Balona

13 years ago

Same here. The third clearly is relevant to what you want your site to be: A community of parents sharing their thoughts and insights on their children with behavioral issues.

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Devid Farah 13 years ago

Hi Sheryl,

Personally i vote for the last one, "ParentingDifficultKids.com"

Good luck with your forum!

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- imfusa 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Devid Farah
  
  Hi Sheryl,
  
  Personally i vote for the last one, "ParentingDifficultKids.com"
  
  Good luck with your forum!
  
  Devid
  
  Another Vote for "ParentingDifficultKids.com" .
  The reason is that you have included the keyword parenting, which on exact match has over 40000 monthly searches.
  
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  Sheryl Polomka 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by imfusa
  
  Another Vote for "ParentingDifficultKids.com" .
  The reason is that you have included the keyword parenting, which on exact match has over 40000 monthly searches.
  
  Yes, although I hadn't looked up the search numbers, I thought it would be good to have the word parenting in there somewhere.
  
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Just2me

13 years ago

I vote for OurBeautifulKids.com!

Good luck!

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Kecia

13 years ago

I don't agree with using the word "difficult." It sounds negative and could push some parents away from the forum. It needs a more supportive name, assuming that's the point of the forum. I voted for the second one.

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kecia08

I don't agree with using the word "difficult." It sounds negative and could push some parents away from the forum. It needs a more supportive name, assuming that's the point of the forum. I voted for the second one.

I was wondering about this too, however I think parents with difficult children can relate very well to the words difficult kids.

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tryinhere 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

I was wondering about this too, however I think parents with difficult children can relate very well to the words difficult kids.

Is it the children that are difficult, or do some parents have difficulty in understanding how to raise children ?
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- Sheryl Polomka 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by tryinhere
  
  Is it the children that are difficult, or do some parents have difficulty in understanding how to raise children ?
  
  I believe it's a bit of both
  
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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

4. ParentingDifficultChildren.com
5. EffectiveParentingForum.com
6. ParentingSupportForum.com

Here are a couple more that are available - such a difficult choice!

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Cool Hand Luke

13 years ago

My suggestion: Register your top picks right now before someone sees this thread and decides they'd like one or more of those sites.

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Joseph G Spiteri 13 years ago

Personal i like EffectiveParentingForum.com for a forum site.
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- oneplusone 13 years ago
  
  I'd recommend the third option.
  
  www.parentingdifficultkids.com
  
  The rest sound weak IMO.
  
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  Jill Carpenter 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Just2me
  
  I vote for OurBeautifulKids.com!
  
  Good luck!
  
  Me too.
  
  If I have a child that is difficult, I still would want to think they are beautiful or wonderful or what ever - even when they just went out and shot someone, lol.
  
  I think difficult is too negative a word and not sure I would want to regularly visit the site.
  
  If the site is helping me to bring out the beautiful side of the child, that makes sense (to me anyway).
  
  The only issue I see with this name is it could attract kid beauty pagent mothers who want to show off their kids.
  
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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Thanks everyone for your input. I have made a decision and it is none of the above

I've actually gone with specialneedsparenting.net

It is a .net because the .com is already taken, even though it's a parked domain, but that's ok. specialneedsparentingforum.com was available but that's just too long.

I think with the name 'special needs' in the name I can incorporate a much wider audience.

So decision made - thanks everyone!

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oneplusone

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

Thanks everyone for your input. I have made a decision and it is none of the above

I've actually gone with specialneedsparenting.net

It is a .net because the .com is already taken, even though it's a parked domain, but that's ok. specialneedsparentingforum.com was available but that's just too long.

I think with the name 'special needs' in the name I can incorporate a much wider audience.

So decision made - thanks everyone!

You should usually be looking to narrow mass markets are opposed to widening them -- it increases your chances of success -- but good luck anyway if you've made a decision

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Mark Wilson

13 years ago

Hi Sheryl,

Sign me up for your forum ... I need your help!

"Parenting Tips" is a popular search, so you could look for something like:

Get Parenting Tips, or Share Parenting Tips

When I get stuck looking for a decent domain I often put each word I might use into a thesaurus and then jumble the resulting word combinations around to see what I get. So, 'Difficult' could become 'Challenging' or 'Demanding' or 'Problem'.

I also have a list of short prefix and suffix words that can often help me come up with a domain name that works.

Or, if all else fails you could just register ... Dont Blame The Parents .com

BTW: If you find one you like REGISTER IT - because it may be gone when you check back later. Trust me, that's a lesson you don't want to learn the hard way!

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Oh man this is so hard! Just when I thought I had my decision made

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daddykool

13 years ago

Hey Sheryl

Good idea for your blog, domains however are way too long and really not catchy enough to find or remember, is this a long term goal project, if so we could come up with some optional names from our stock, aged or otherwise :-)

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Originally Posted by daddykool

Hey Sheryl

Good idea for your blog, domains however are way too long and really not catchy enough to find or remember, is this a long term goal project, if so we could come up with some optional names from our stock, aged or otherwise :-)

Yes this is LONG term - this is following up or an addition to 2 current websites I have and I have a few plans in this niche long term (if all goes well). So this forum is not something I want to set up and flip 6 months down the track, this is one for the long haul.

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

parenting4kids.com or parentinghelpforum.com are both up for auction

parentinghelpforum.com may be ok - but still a little on the long side. Don't really think I could get a 'parenting' name much shorter though.

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anupkayastha

13 years ago

These domains are tool long. Try to choose smaller.

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Mark Wilson

13 years ago

Hi again Sheryl,

How about playing with words that have a supportive or positive feeling/meaning to them, in conjunction with the word Parenting?

Buoyant Parenting
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Heartfelt Parenting

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

heartfeltparenting.com is available

Here are some others:

parentingboost.com
parentingalert.com
parentingchatter.com
parentingnetworks.com
parentinglowdown.com
parentinghuddle.com
parentingaide.com

Still very unsure!

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Devid Farah 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

parentingboost.com

I would opt for this above!
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- Sheryl Polomka 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Devid Farah
  
  I would opt for this above!
  
  Thanks Devid - I think that is my favourite out of those - kind of 'giving them a boost'
  
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Mark Wilson

13 years ago

It's a good one. Go for it!

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Yep that's the one - I just bought the domain. Thanks for the thesaurus tip Mark, I went into thesaurus.com and played around a bit - that's where I found 'boost'

Now it's 1:30am so I am going to bed!

Thanks everyone!

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Mark Wilson

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

Yep that's the one - I just bought the domain. Thanks for the thesaurus tip Mark, I went into thesaurus.com and played around a bit - that's where I found 'boost'

Now it's 1:30am so I am going to bed!

Thanks everyone!

No Problem. Glad you found one that worked for you.

Mark.

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wanna-succeed

13 years ago

Why are you creating this site/forum? To help your kid? Rasie awareness? Make money?

Depending on the answer, you should pick the right domain.
Personally, how does your kid feel about you making his problem widely available on the web? Are you going to make money off of it(him)? If you're only trying to help him, the SEO doesn't matter, nor the domain.

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Originally Posted by wanna-succeed

Why are you creating this site/forum? To help your kid? Rasie awareness? Make money?

Depending on the answer, you should pick the right domain.
Personally, how does your kid feel about you making his problem widely available on the web? Are you going to make money off of it(him)? If you're only trying to help him, the SEO doesn't matter, nor the domain.

Very good points. My original site was created for my personal benefit and not to make money or anything else, but it has attracted many readers in the same situation. This is why I want to create the forum - to help other parents in the same situation. Not that I'm an expert and I certainly still have issues with my own son, but I think it helps if you have somewhere to go to talk about things and just connect with others that know what you're going through.

So that's the main reasoning, which is why I'm not overly concerned about SEO, although I'm sure good keywords will attract more people, parenting is a very competitive niche so I'm not sure I want to really fight to get to the top! I'm happy to take it slow and build it up as it's needed.

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Grace347

13 years ago

[QUOTE=Sheryl Polomka;3533295]I have had a blog for a while about my son who has some behavior issues and now I'm starting a forum.

I was going to just have it on the same domain as my blog but my blog name is My-Beautiful-Boy.com so it's targeted more toward boys I guess.

So now I've decided to create the forum on a completely new domain but am having trouble choosing a domain name. These are three I've come up with:

1. OurExceptionalKids.com
2. OurBeautifulKids.com
3. ParentingDifficultKids.com

4. ParentingDifficultChildren.com
5. EffectiveParentingForum.com
6. ParentingSupportForum.com

So I thought I'd com on here and see which one people preferred. Please let me know which domain you vote for - or if I can work out how I might put a poll up.

Or if you have any other suggestions, I'm open to suggestions.

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Grace347

13 years ago

good luck Sheryl. I actually really liked ourbeautifulkids.com but then im a parent of a boy myself for business and marketing purposes go with the empowering name not the latter.

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Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

I have had a blog for a while about my son who has some behavior issues and now I'm starting a forum.

3. ParentingDifficultKids.com
4. ParentingDifficultChildren.com
5. EffectiveParentingForum.com
6. ParentingSupportForum.com

Any of the above would be appropriate.

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Adie

13 years ago

I go with this: EffectiveParentingForum.com

Why? Others sounds discouraging and negative. While this one sounds like effective for all aspects and no megative impact.

When you say difficult, exceptional - not sound good to me. Effectiveparenting can attract attention even parents with normal kids. and "effective parenting" is a highly competitive keyword.

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TrekkieGrrrl 13 years ago

I bought a book once called "Parenting Spirited Children" or something similar. I can't remember the exact title.

The term "spirited" was used instead of "challenging" or "difficult" because that's really what they are - they have a feisty, fiery spirit that needs to be channeled, not squelched, and they need parents to help them in their journey.

Reading this book (and helping me understand the nature of my child wasn't to be "difficult" or "challenging," but was just more spirited), helped me a great deal.

That might be a word/approach you might consider.
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Terellk

13 years ago

Go with "ParentingDifficultChildren.com" Because that is the keyword people are searching most. You would have more success targeting the keyword "Parenting Difficult Children" then "Effective Parenting Forum" which one of these would you think is searched by REAL people? I think the answer is obvious...

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Christian Little

13 years ago

I would vote for Parenting{something}Kids

But don't use "Difficult", that has a very negative connotation associated with it. While that may be what the forum is about, you don't want to have the name putting people off because of the inherent negativity in it. Most parents that care for special needs/behavior problems children don't call them "difficult", and would probably be offended by it.

I would go with ParentingSpecialKids, or ParentingSpiritedKids that was suggested above.

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Last night I made the decision to go with ParentingBoost.com - though now I'm not sure after reading this again.

ParentingBoost.com because it's a shorter domain which a lot of people were saying I should use a shorter domain - also because it's about giving parents a 'boost'.

I do like parentingspiritedkids.com though but I'm not sure if it's just too long.

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Mike McAleer

13 years ago

i like effective parenting forum dot com

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ChrisPope

13 years ago

You are on the right track with all the research you are doing. You want a domain name that is catchy so people will remember it, also you want to it be relevant to the content on your site so it will be SEO friendly. The right name will come to you in time. It took me two weeks to come up with my domain name and I'm so glad I waited instead of impulsively buying a domain name then regretting it. Good Luck!

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Mike McAleer

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ChrisPope

You are on the right track with all the research you are doing. You want a domain name that is catchy so people will remember it, also you want to it be relevant to the content on your site so it will be SEO friendly. The right name will come to you in time. It took me two weeks to come up with my domain name and I'm so glad I waited instead of impulsively buying a domain name then regretting it. Good Luck!

YEs you want a balance between brandability and SEO

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