Singular or Plural

[Nokia999]

** i strictly beleive "-" looks pretty good in domain names.
i m confused about selection of new domain name.
it should be singular or plural.
we know pet and pets.
we know food and foods
if i want to design a website about pet's foods.Then which name should be selected.
www.pet-food.com
or
www.pets-food.com
or
www.pets-foods.com

[suzigeek]

I don't believe foods is a word, so I definitely wouldn't use anything with that in it.

pets-food.com or pet-food.com.

Although to me pets-food.com just sounds like bad english.

Have you done some keyword research? That may help you choose.

[aaron_nimocks]

pet-food

No one uses pets when they are searching for pet food. But then again I doubt you are going after the term pet-food. I would do some keyword research on keyword discovery first. Wordtracker and overture suck with dealing with plurals.

[maro]

Just try to figure out what search terms will people type in the most!
I would guess the best one would be: www.pet-food.com since pet food would be search the most!
If you are still in doubt, why not buy more than one and redirect them all to just one

[uca]

pet-food by far, I wouldn't even bother with variations that are wrong.
only I might consider other extensions as well.

[Nokia999]

I don't believe foods is a word, so I definitely wouldn't use anything with that in it.

pets-food.com or pet-food.com.

Although to me pets-food.com just sounds like bad english.

Have you done some keyword research? That may help you choose.
Ooops my bad
i forgot to mention it is just an example pet & food.
it could be anything which could sound good english as well.
like
forum & forums ...etc
Ok let's take good english example and widely search words."forums for a friend".Then what i have to select?
friends-forums.com
friend-forums.com
friends-forum.com etc..
specially word forum is good or forums is better?
But the point is all about singular or plural:)

[uca]

In this case use the tool suggested and try to stick to the one containing the most searched keywords.:)

[just-4-teens]

i would personally go with what sounds better and which would be easier to remember. if in doubt spend an extra $9 and buy both.

[uca]

Oh, yes, sorry, assuming it sounds good, do as I said starting from that tool.

just-for-teens is right!:)

[Web Gazelle]

How about pet-foods.com? ;)

[uca]

He said that those aren't the real keywords.

[alfredo]

First of all do your keyword research homework, try to see what people actually search for and their "natural" writing habits.
Second, go and buy the domains, at $2 a domain it's not worth thinking a lot if you need the singular or plural forms.

[Nokia999]

First of all do your keyword research homework, try to see what people actually search for and their "natural" writing habits.
Second, go and buy the domains, at $2 a domain it's not worth thinking a lot if you need the singular or plural forms.
Cheapest i found is from Netfirms $4.95 ;) not $2 :)

[uca]

You can buy .info domains for cheaper than $4.95

[Nokia999]

You can buy .info domains for cheaper than $4.95
But now everything has changed to .com :) .
But .info ;)