Which is the best domain???

8 years ago

I have heard that google likes short domains and to start with the main keyword, no letters before, so i lean towards teddybearss.com, despite the fact it has an extra s

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nicelife

8 years ago

I think that teddybears4u.com is the best from these 3.

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amika1968 8 years ago

I thought there was something about not having a number that was important??
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- amika1968 8 years ago
  
  I am trying to get teddybears.com but it's not looking good. After Market can't get a response from the seller... It's a parked domain... probably one of thousands the seller owns. Sigh...
  
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SEOLIX

8 years ago

My Vote - eteddybears.com

Reason - almost EMD, doesn't have numbers, a .com

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Alexa Smith

Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by kimmurphy

eteddybears.com

teddybears4u.com

teddybearss.com

What do you think?

eteddybears.com is the one that's bad. It's really important to have the additional letters/word (if you have to have them at all) after the major keyword and not before it. For pretty understandable reasons, I think? Just as it pays so much, when writing an article, to have its major keyword at the start of the title, and not to make the blunder of writing one called "3 Things You Didn't Know About Keyword". People search for "teddybears", not for "eteddybears". For me, this issue's pretty much black and white.

I would immediately and firmly rule out "eteddybears", for myself.

Between the other two, I would also decide against "teddybears4u" because I know that some (albeit maybe not many, these days) potential customers are still alienated by "textspeak" in url's, and won't go to (or buy from) a site with "4u" in the domain-name. I certainly know people, myself, who would "look down their noses" a little at that domain-name. But I do think that's really a less important and more subjective point than the one above.

Good luck with teddybearss.com (or something similar), Kim.

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kurtistb

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

eteddybears.com is the one that's bad. It's really important to have the additional letters/word (if you have to have them at all) after the major keyword and not before it. For pretty understandable reasons, I think? Just as it pays so much, when writing an article, to have its major keyword at the start of the title, and not to make the blunder of writing one called "3 Things You Didn't Know About Keyword". People search for "teddybears", not for "eteddybears". For me, this issue's pretty much black and white.

I would immediately and firmly rule out "eteddybears", for myself.

Between the other two, I would also decide against "teddybears4u" because I know that some (albeit maybe not many, these days) potential customers are still alienated by "textspeak" in url's, and won't go to (or buy from) a site with "4u" in the domain-name. I certainly know people, myself, who would "look down their noses" a little at that domain-name. But I do think that's really a less important and more subjective point than the one above.

Good luck with teddybearss.com (or something similar), Kim.

So would something like (for example) bestteddybears.com or buyteddybears.com be bad? And teddybearreviews.com would be better?

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Alexa Smith Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by kurtistb

So would something like (for example) bestteddybears.com or buyteddybears.com be bad?

Yes.

Originally Posted by kurtistb

And teddybearreviews.com would be better?

Yes, definitely - for ranking for the keyword "teddybears".

I take absolutely no credit at all for happening to know this one: I'd seen it explained in some standard SEO textbooks and didn't know whether or not to believe it, and how much it mattered, but since then I've also had it independently confirmed by this forum's resident domain-name authority, Gene Pimentel. (You're just not going to find a more informed source of information on this subject than Gene - his opinion means more to me than the books I'd read).

Even so, skepchick that I am, I've still tested it myself, too, and of course it was true.

Unlike some "internet marketing decisions" one has to make, which can be a little counterintuitive, this one does actually make complete sense, anyway.

For SEO purposes, "eteddybears", in the original question asked here, is just the wrong answer.
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amika1968

8 years ago

Thank you everyone for all of the feedback! I really appreciate it!

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Nak 8 years ago

I think teddybears4u.com is more professional.. & will be easy to remember!
teddybearss..is not good & will create confusion...
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seomagic

8 years ago

I would prefer to go with teddybears4u.com its the best one from the list you provides so go for it

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americaupdates

8 years ago

i would prefer: teddybears4u.com

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pacelattin

8 years ago

The number thing is fictional, unless its between the keywords. There is no seo implication for having numbers at the end of something.

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LukePeerFly

8 years ago

I would go with eteddybears.com. Good domain

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John Romaine

8 years ago

What about teddy-bears.com?

Hyphens always perform well.

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amika1968 8 years ago

Nope, .com .net and .org of teddy-bears.com are taken. Funny, none of these domains are on page one for their keyword. lol
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- Venturetothetop 8 years ago
  
  I have to agree with Alexa's comment on having extra letters after the keyword, but have to disagree with the '4u' comments.
  
  If the people you are trying to attract are in the 'texters' age range, then it is not an issue at all. (Disclaimers: she states this point is subjective, but I still did not totally agree with her reasoning!)
  
  But, perhaps I offer another suggestion. Why do people not add a cool work on the end, not just focus on the 2 main keywords? I would think of it as a business name and call it something like:
  
  Teddybearkingdom
  Teddybearsglalore
  Teddybearhideout
  
  Something a little more memorable, and more like a business name then a domain that is obviously just trying to target a keyword. You are still targeting the keyword but also give a better impression of an actual business.
  
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amika1968 8 years ago

I have all three registered. I am very tempted to do an experiment and develop all three the same and see what one ranks the highest!
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- John Romaine 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kimmurphy
  
  Nope, .com .net and .org of teddy-bears.com are taken. Funny, none of these domains are on page one for their keyword. lol
  
  That doesnt mean anything. You can have the best domain name in the world, but if its not optimized it means little.
  
  Try googling "sex" and see where sex.com is. It's no-where.
  
  Originally Posted by kimmurphy
  
  I have all three registered. I am very tempted to do an experiment and develop all three the same and see what one ranks the highest!
  
  I would advise against doing that. Unless of course all three are unique, which defeats the purpose.
  
  BTW - Ive had great results using a letter at the beginning of a keyword rich domain. Check out my old garage sale website that I sold 2 years ago.
  
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amika1968 8 years ago

If adding on to the end of a domain, is it best to keep it as short as possible?

for example:

wouldn't teddybears4u.com be better than teddybearsforyou.com ?
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jeff09

8 years ago

Always use primary keyword first then add extra text or numbers after that

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sbucciarel

Banned 8 years ago

It's better to have any additional irrelevant words after the keyword, so teddybearss.com would be the best. Good luck trying to get teddybears.com. That will be a very expensive domain name.

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Daniel Wilson

8 years ago

eteddybears.com - I'd go with this.

Or teddybearsblog.com, there a numerous websites with blog keyword in them which rank pretty well.

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John Romaine

8 years ago

Instead of guessing what might be the best choice, heres a tip.

Choose your domain name directly from your keyword research. Export your keywords directly from the GKT, then dump them into Godaddy's bulk domain search.

Find an available domain that has the highest search volume. Register it, then sit back and enjoy a nice cuppa.

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sbucciarel

Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

Instead of guessing what might be the best choice, heres a tip.

Choose your domain name directly from your keyword research. Export your keywords directly from the GKT, then dump them into Godaddy's bulk domain search.

Find an available domain that has the highest search volume. Register it, then sit back and enjoy a nice cuppa.

This is what I do. I choose a domain that is an exact match for a keyword that I've researched.

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murrad

8 years ago

teddybears4u.com is the best, as it contains the keyword in the domain as "sbucciarel" suggested here...

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advancedyn

8 years ago

eTeddyBears.com would work great if you were going to do a big TV commercial roll-out or something. eHarmony worked great because they weren't dependent upon the whole Google/SEO thing. They were needing something short and easy that people could remember from other forms of marketing. Kind of an apples & oranges type of thing in my opinion. What about something like TeddyBearsGalore.com or TeddyBearHeaven.com or ..........

Oh, and a thesaurus may be a useful tool for that third word as well.

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Michael Thorsett

8 years ago

I'm going to be end up being the resident contrarian, here but...

It matters MUCH more what you do with the website that is hosted at the domain, than what the domain name itself is.

I'm not saying that you should totally and completely forget about trying to come up with a good and memorable name, but spending a lot of time on the precise placement of keywords within the domain name and whether there are numbers or what everybody else is doing is counter-productive, IMO.

While the domain name can be important, the content within the website is much more so.

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