Will the domain hobby.com get higher in the Google serps than hobbies.com when people search for the word hobby ?
Yes, I agree ,but the advantage of having the exact keyword in the domain, how is that working with plural ?
Yes having the term in the domain in a plus. Google doesn't understand grammar. You have to show it that hobbies is associated with your site. I'm sure there is something in LSI that quasi associates the 2.
Search engines use the method of stemming by determining the root word of a search keyword. In that way they understand what are the related terms to it. Since hobby is related to its plural form, hobbies, I think www.hobby.com gets consideration for a hobbies and vice versa. I think that if you consider the domain name, it's likely that for a search query of "hobby" hobby.com is theoretically on top. But it does not happen on many occasions. Other factors such as content and inbound links influence rankings.
Yes, Google are after relevancy to people and people searching for hobby would theoretically find equal interesting stuff on both hobby.com and hobbies.com. It would therefor be correct to say that Google are trying to recognize/understand grammar, right ?
To use as the domain, I think hobby is better, because it's easy to remember. For keywords, I will suggest you use hobby also, because if you search hobbies in google, pages with hobby will show up. But if you search hobby, pages with hobbies will not.
yes i m agree wit hhheng. it will be more beneficial to use hobby instead of hobbies as it will search more and it will target hobby keyword which is more important to hobbies.go for it.
it is advisable to go for hobby it is good to achieve ranking on that keyword.it will be batter than hobbies
I would agree they are "trying", but are nowhere close to something that actually does so. EWC summed it up with stemming technology, which ties in to the LSI technology I mentioned. It's not really understanding grammar, just making notes of words that users are associating. Not quite the same context here, but do a search on Google for "Cell Phone" scroll down to the bottom and notice other "related" searches it suggests. Nokia, TMobile, Prepaid Cell Phones, etc. If you do a search for Hobbies, notice many hobby related searches are suggested. http://www.google.com/trends?q=hobby,+hobbies Hobby has significantly more search volume. You are in good shape
I think hobby.com is better. Anyone is looking for a particlular hobby. People tend to have one central hobby.