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Help Me Choose A Domain Name!

by Zachary R. Skinner
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Howdy fellow warriors,

I'll get right to the point: I launched a tattoo website (although still under construction) last week and now I'm having doubts about the domain name I chose.

Currently the site is up at TheTattooFanatic.com, which I thought was a very catchy, easy to remember name.

The trouble is that over the weekend I discovered and purchased another domain name, TheTattooAddict.com, and now I'm unsure as to which domain name I should really use. :confused:

I was hoping some of my fellow warriors could help me decide by telling me which url they prefer.

If you don't like either, what domain name would you suggest?

As always, everyone's help is greatly appreciated!
#choose #domain
  • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
    Is it safe to assume you're building a site on tattoos? Outside of that...are you trying to sell tattoo safety? tattoo designs? pictures of girls in bikinis covered in tattoos? religious literature talking about how evil tattoos are? anti-religious literature talking about how abso-freaking-fantastic tattoos are?

    Give us a little more to go on...

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    • Profile picture of the author threezerozero
      Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post

      Is it safe to assume you're building a site on tattoos? Outside of that...are you trying to sell tattoo safety? tattoo designs? pictures of girls in bikinis covered in tattoos? religious literature talking about how evil tattoos are? anti-religious literature talking about how abso-freaking-fantastic tattoos are?

      Give us a little more to go on...

      -- j
      agreed with this. the domain will depend on what type of content you're posting on that website. it will at least give me a better idea of which name fits.
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    • Profile picture of the author Zachary R. Skinner
      Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post

      Is it safe to assume you're building a site on tattoos? Outside of that...are you trying to sell tattoo safety? tattoo designs? pictures of girls in bikinis covered in tattoos? religious literature talking about how evil tattoos are? anti-religious literature talking about how abso-freaking-fantastic tattoos are?

      Give us a little more to go on...

      -- j
      Right now the site is going to focus on tattoo design, tattoo care, tattoo removal, and tattoo artist training

      Its kind of a general tattoo interest site
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        For myself, I would want "tattoo" to be the first word in the domain-name, and not have "the" in front of it.

        (Yes, I know that plenty of people believe that won't make any difference. It would for me, though ).

        I'd be looking at things like tattoo-action.com, tattoo-reality.com, and so on.
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        • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          For myself, I would want "tattoo" to be the first word in the domain-name, and not have "the" in front of it.

          (Yes, I know that plenty of people believe that won't make any difference. It would for me, though ).

          I'd be looking at things like tattoo-action.com, tattoo-reality.com, and so on.
          What Alexa said is very important for SEO purposes. Google & Bing read from left to right. If you have the word "the" as the first word, they assume that that's part of your keyword for that domain.

          Even if you don't plan on really SEO'ing your site, it helps not to handicap yourself from the start.

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  • Profile picture of the author webbizgold
    Tattoo Addict sounds more catchy, but that is just a personal preference. It depends on ultimately, what are your targeted keywords and the product that you're trying to promote?

    These days, I believe the exact match domains aren't the only key factor any longer, and if you were to theoretically build both sites similarly with the same content, there wouldn't be any significant difference between the two domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author piermichel
    Both domains are greats, tatoo fanatic will be more relevant to people who loves tatoo and the other one tatoo adict is very catchy, why any one would to know more about the pro and the con of tatoo... that is my 2 cents
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  • Profile picture of the author piermichel
    Other caution about choosing your domains is to make sure you have enough search volume even better some buyers keywors into it so that you know you will make money. I hope that helps
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  • Profile picture of the author Anonymous Affiliate
    I personally dislike domains with "The" at the beginning, but anyway out of the two I prefer "Fanatic" over "Addict".
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    • Profile picture of the author Zachary R. Skinner
      Thanks for the responses.

      Last time I checked the poll was dead even.
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  • Profile picture of the author frambles
    Fanatic is my favourite!
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    I like TheTattooAddict better.
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    • Profile picture of the author fin
      I like tattoofool.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Zachary R. Skinner
    Thanks to everyone who voted!
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  • Profile picture of the author Melvin San Miguel
    Ever heard the phrase,
    "first the worst, second the best..."???? its an old english saying I heard as a child.. so I'm gonna vote for the 2nd domain name which is.... TheTattooAddict.com
    Good luck !
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    • Profile picture of the author Zachary R. Skinner
      Originally Posted by Melvin San Miguel View Post

      Ever heard the phrase,
      "first the worst, second the best..."???? its an old english saying I heard as a child.. so I'm gonna vote for the 2nd domain name which is.... TheTattooAddict.com
      Good luck !
      I've definitely never heard of that....what is that expression even mean???
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  • Profile picture of the author laracoates28
    I think this (TheTattooAddict.com) is preferable.
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  • Profile picture of the author prroger
    As you seem to be targeting people who have tattoos and not people who like looking at tattoos then TheTattooAddict is more appropriate.
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  • Profile picture of the author contentwriting360
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    Of course, I would have to make a research on this first prior to selecting the domain name that I want. Just like what you're doing right now. You're asking for our suggestions.

    But on a first-impression-basis, I'd choose TheTattooAddict.com.
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