.com .net .org what the next best thing

If you cant find that perfect keyword under a .com .net or .org domain name, whats the next best thing to go for?

 

Anything you want. There is no "best" domain extension. The only thing you should avoid would be country domain extensions from difference countries. A .ru is less likely to rank well in the United States Google than a .us. If you go that route, stick with your own country's domain extension (unless you're targeting another country). Aside from that, don't worry about your domain extension. Worry about your SEO strategy (on-page and off-page).

 

What about adding letter or other words to domain names.

Like for 'bottle' you say 'bottles' or bottle for bottling as an example

 

Try to stay exactly with your keyword. If your keyword is "recycle plastic bottles", then don't go for "recycling plastic bottles", "plastic bottle recycling", etc. "Bottle", "Bottles", and "Bottling" are all different words. But if you look, "Bottles" includes the word "Bottle" within it. With that in mine, I think singular words are better to stick with.

 

I think that would count as a different keyword if you change 'bottling' to 'bottles'. I'm just adding a new word to the end of the domain like bottlesblog.com

 

So once the keyword is intact it doesnt matter? Is that what you're saying

so for bottle:

bottles
bottlexyz
bottle4u

are all ok? i would still get traffic for bottle?

 

As long as we're talking about domains, yes. I think that would even work within your actual content. But my question to you is why would you want to do that? Match your desired keyword(s) exactly and you won't have any issues with them. Screw around with them too much and you're going to end up regretting it.

 

Thats exactly what im running from. My exact keywords are not available but if i add something to it i can get that domain. So i want to know how much can i deviate from they keyword when choosing a domain.

is bottleblog good? or should i leave it as bottle-blog

what about bottlexyz is that ok too? will the search engine not care about the xyz part and just say 'hey he's got bottle in the domain name, lets rank hiom a little bit higher'

Hope im not getting too technical

 

I always look for the hyphenated version and if it's not available then I try to add a word after the keyphrase

 

So i solved my problem now i have too many domains. I just added a word or pluralized my keyword(s)

 

If .com .net .org .info are taken, go for .co .tv .me they are also global.

 

It also depends on what country the site will be located, I have also seen company’s use double hyphens – when a single hyphen name has already been taken.

 

.ME is ccTLD for Montenegro.
.TV is ccTLD for Tuvalu.
Those are not global domains

 

.TV can geo target via Google Webmasters, it is operated by Verisign http://www.verisign.tv/about-tv/index.html. According to you, nba.tv apple.tv justin.tv cars.tv blip.tv cnn.tv ...ect do you really think they have something to do with Tuvalu ? Do a Google search for Justin and go see who's first http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=justin.

.ME can also geo target via Google Webmasters, it is operated by Afilias. http://domain.me/about.html

 

.info is 4th best maybe even better than .org.

 

personally like .net

 

I don't. .net used to be for networks in the 90's, now it's just another worthless gTLD that means nothing.

It doesn't make any sense to have a domain like nike.net... i mean seriously, NIKE is a computer network ?

At least nike.org stand for NIKE organizations and good will.

 

I would do everything you can to get the .com, unless you can use a .me or something as a play on words.

 

Try to get a similar word / concept with .com , maybe a double keyword (not too long), instead of go to .co, .me or somewhat.

 

Yep, you can geo-target those in webmaster tools. But those are few ccTLDs Google has made exception for because of the commercial purpose that they generate.
They can be used like generic TLDs, but still basically they are ccTLDs