I went through quite a few names before I found the perfect one. This was my criteria:
Rule #1 - Had to be short and easy to remember. I hate long and complicated names, especially for domain names.
Rule #2 - Had to be easy to understand. If your domain name is kandyshoppe.com, and you tell it to someone over the phone, they are just going to go to candyshop.com.
Rule #3 - Had to make sense in relation to the product. If you have to take 5 minutes to explain it to someone, it's completely useless.
However if you are buying a website, you want the URL to be SEO friendly, something I had no idea about when I bought my URL. IT does help SIGNIFICANTLY in SEO.
However if you are buying a website, you want the URL to be SEO friendly, something I had no idea about when I bought my URL. IT does help SIGNIFICANTLY in SEO.
What makes the actual URL SEO friendly? Having no strange spellings? Having "T-shirt," "tshirt," "teesshirt," or "tees" in the name?
Do you know if you lose visitors to people forgetting to insert the dash when they manually type your domain name into the address bar?
I ask because many of the domain names I wanted to register were already taken. So I inserted a dash and the domain name was available. ie: awesometshirtname700.com was taken, but awesomet-shirtname700.com was available.
i would steer clear of anything that resembles an existing domain. If you're advertising your site, some may forget the dash in the name. Not only that, but personally if someone's got the name, I'd automatically want to come up w/ something else, to ensure that it's original.
ie: awesometshirtname700.com was taken, but awesomet-shirtname700.com was available.
I bought the name tshirtrebels one time and didnt realize there was a site called tshirtrebel. They werent to happy about it and I had to give up the name and turn it off. Just because they didnt buy that name with the "s" they are still sort of owner to it.
It doesn't make it more SEO friendly. It used to (years ago), but not anymore.
Mostly, it just makes it harder for your customers to type in and remember (and harder for you to say outloud )
Rodney, I totally disagree with you on this. It helps big time to have key words in your url.
Another (less effective) way of doing this is setting up your pages purposely with seo friendly names, lie url.com/key-word/key-words.html .
As far as names go, Names with two words both starting with the same letter are easier to remember. Names that are a play on words, puns, or expressions are also easier to remember.
Rodney, I totally disagree with you on this. It helps big time to have key words in your url.
I never said that keywords in the URL don't help Check the post I was quoting again...he was talking about those long hyphenated keyword URLs, which are both unprofessional and unnecsessary.
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Originally Posted by PartyClothes
I heard that using lots of keywords separated by dashes so it is more seo friendly works. ie: cheap-photo-shirts.com
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