numbers or words?

should the person that owns 10hits.com also buy tenhits.com
(i dont know who it is..russian i think)
another example...
10greenbottles.com or tengreenbottles.com

i am looking at some domains that use the number 10 and cant decide if i need to buy both,
(i have been questioned about my main site name..whether its a number or letter... i just say both)

if i am buying 20 domains..that'll mean making it 40

 

Maybe you can test it with just a few domains.

I voted "both".

 

Depends on how you're marketing it... if there's any offline marketing at all, buy both... if not, you only need to brand one way or the other. (IMHO)

 

The keyword suggestion tool indicates there are MANY more search that use 10 than ten.

 

I'd have to say both. Domains aren't that expensive anyway

 

voted for letters since most visitors will search for 'ten outstanding dp members' rather than '10 outstanding dp members'

 

I'd say both, if you brand your site well, it might get expensive later to get the other.

 

I don't know man, I think it's more natural to search for the number rather than the number as a word. See also what mhdoc posted above.

 

For me it is too, because I'm a lazy typist. But that's not the point. When people think of numbers they usually think of the numerals, not the number written out as a word.

The following in not scientific, but I think it's pretty conclusive. Numerals are searched more than numbers as words.

Let's do some overture comparisons:


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"99"
14959 99 cent store
10698 99 problem
8940 99 restaurant
5115 ranch 99
3240 99 ranch market
2925 99 cent
2429 99 jamz
2383 power 99
2258 99 cent only store
2033 woodstock 99

"ninety nine"
2208 ninety nine restaurant
1835 ninety nine
334 night nine ninety
292 ninety nine restaurant and pub
179 ninety nine cent store
147 ninety nine name of allah
64 knight nine ninety

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"77"
6079 attaque 77
5885 ataque 77
5324 77
1694 77 carlo hp monte specs
1440 77 sunset strip
1114 14 19 383 728 77 90 c c5 c5.zedo.com d ff2.html h jsc n s w
962 bt 77
958 flight 77
696 blank 77

"seventy seven"
920 seventy times seven
304 seventy times seven lyric
233 brand new seventy times seven
197 brand new seventy times seven lyric
195 seventy seven
29 beyond seven seventy
28 seventy seven times seven
27 block seven seventy


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"10"
175913 10
38534 window media player 10
35827 top ten
31243 perfect 10
28130 10 lead
27658 calphalon 10
22617 final fantasy 10
22591 10 years old gallery
15398 10 day weather forecast
14397 media player 10
12602 channel 10 news
11960 net 10
11534 10 things i hate about you

"ten"
49210 ten
36071 ten commandment
15778 ten free
9362 big ten
8604 ten unit
7349 ten thumb
4523 perfect teen
4491 pita ten
4452 the whole ten yard
4295 ten years after


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"3"
244902 3 door down
178402 play station 3
152846 3 animated aquarium d
91772 x man 3
70049 spider man 3
46588 star war episode 3
43723 grand theft auto 3
40698 grand theft auto 3 cheat
39300 halo 3
35706 halo 3 rumor

"three"
94169 three day grace
43866 three
43640 three door down
31203 three six mafia
30687 three 6 mafia
25849 three stooges
12504 three pup
12076 three company
11934 three dog night
11731 three hour diet

 

thanks exam.... great answer, but i definately have the opinion i will need BOTH
as the long term objective is always to be HUGE
and it would be bad to even lose 10% of visitors to the 'word' version.

 

I usually register both If I have serious intention of developing a web business.

In fact the worst side of number containing names is that you are "obsessed" by registering both (numbers and letters)

Thanks,
Irongloves

 

I agree- see post #5

 

I'd say get both but promote the letters version since a) that's the one users will search for and b) seems a bit more professional since most sites with numbers started showing up after the letter versions of them were taken (i think that's the case in most cases anyway)

as far as 10hits, yes, it's in Russian

 

Did you read post #10 or is my research faulty?

I agree, if it's a short number