Which works better for a domain name? If people google "forum" more than "forums" does that mean "forum" will yieled better SE traffic? examples; californiaschoolforum v.s californiaschoolforums pokerforum vs pokerforums etc... I want my site to be as optemized as possible, starting with htis detail. Thanks for any help.
I prefer singular forum domains. You want to be the best "forum" in your niche. That's my logic anyway.
Domains are quite cheap these days, why don't you buy them both? These way you also limit people from taking the "other" domain...
Because it covers even the singular word "forum", that is the word "forums" contains the word "forum" so you'll get traffic from people searching for both words. Plural ftw.
If I search for a forum, I use the term "forums" instead of "forum". So I suggest forums instead of forum. And also because the plural covers the singular.
Search for "forum" gives me 3,610,000,000 search results in google; http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2GGGL_enIN176&q=forum While "forums" gives 1,680,000,000 search results in google; http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2GGGL_enIN176&q=forums On search point of view it seems that people often search for singular word. Conclusion; The reason I think the search engine reconginse both as same word but not treat both same as both have different backlinks. Its wise to optimize both keywords seperately.
Here's the Google Trends report: http://www.google.com/trends?q=forum,+forums As you can see, "forum" is much higher, so more people are searching to singular forum. However, I would agree with the two domain ideas. Names are cheap, and it can't hurt to own both. Tom