Native speakers, could you help me with domain name? Thanks!

by Restin

Posted: 12 years ago 6 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi,

i would like to register a new domain (.com I guess) for newsletter (=that's why i would like to have weekly,letter or news in the name). My dilemma is: worse domain name using .com VERSUS worse domain tld (biz, org, net) VERSUS hyphen(s).

Example:
WeeklyNutritionDiet.com
NutritionDiet-letter.com
Nutrition-Diet-weekly.com / Nutrition-Diet-letter.com
NutritionDiet.biz/org/net
ND-weekly.com / ND-letter.com (in my niche abbreviation makes sense).

Which one would you choose? Thank you for any advice!
Richard

#domain #native #speakers

Will Edwards 12 years ago

Two things to consider are the primary key phrase you are targeting and personal preference in naming. Of the suggestions above, I prefer: NutritionDiet.net

But, if you were targeting 'Weekly Nutrition Diet' as a primary key phrase, then I would go for that on the .com i.e. WeeklyNutritionDiet.com

Cheers,

Will
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Dailybread 12 years ago

Hey Richard,
Good on you mate! Interesting question.
No hyphens. Don't help with SEO.

The two stand-outs to me are:
WeeklyNutritionDiet.com
NutritionDiet.org

Best of luck to you. There is something really odd about your short post that makes me hope you do really well. Not sure why.
Could be just losing my mind.
Luckily, it is too small to go far on its own. :-)
Martin
Oz!
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Gary King 12 years ago

As Will and Martin said above, match your target phrase if at all possible.

Not a fan personally of dashes - too hard to communicate that verbally (so friends can't tell friends over the phone for example).

All success,

Gary
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Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Restin

Which one would you choose?

Whichever one has the best search volume with the major keyword at the start of the domain-name. Don't start it with "weekly": that would be giving up some SEO value. "Nutrition-Diet-weekly.com" is much better for SEO than "WeeklyNutritionDiet.com". (Though it looks worse - and "reads worse" - and that might be relevant to you, also?).

I'd want to buy the .com and the .info, myself (albeit not for SEO reasons).

Hyphens in domain names don't affect SEO/ranking at all (as publicly and repeatedely announced by Google and by Matt Cutts on various blogs and on video, too).

Good luck!
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isimrikasharma 12 years ago

I think yo should focus on the keyword you want for seo. a .com or .net would not make much difference in serp.
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Restin 12 years ago

Thanks everyone for your replies! Your answers are similar and logical and I learned new things.

But now I really think if SEO should influence domain choice - I don't plan to focus on SEO much, the traffic should be generated by social media/viral mrktng/tell-a-friend/promotion because ppl don't look for newsletter via search engines.

So from this point of view, do you think hyphens are bad (i'd say YES when telling the domain name to a friend, but NO when you trying to read the name)?

Martin: I don't do well now, but I am still optimistic and I do everything to improve my current situation :-) and one more thing - Happy Birthday :-)
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