I hope this is the right category to get the best answer for this post... I am starting a company that will offer web design, social media, SEO, etc services to local small businesses. I was wondering for both SEO and branding purposes, which type of domain name I should go with to have the most success. For the sake of this post, let's just say I live in Miami, Florida which is in Dade County. Here are some ideas that would play to the local element: MiamiWebDesign.com MiamiDesign.com MiamiSEO.com DadeWebDesign.com DadeDesign.com DadeSEO.com If I choose not to go with using the local city or county name, I could do something like this: NeonWebDesign.com NeonDesign.com NeonSEO.com CamelWebDesign.com CamelDesign.com CamelSEO.com Or I can ditch the keywords web design, design, and SEO completely and go for brandable: ViperOwl.com BloodyCamel.com FatCow.com Basically, I'm trying to get some opinions for which type of domain would be best. I'm expecting to get the majority of my clients by going into their place of business and making a sales pitch, but I do expect to get some organic traffic as well. To keep my site relevant in the eyes of Google (and to build backlinks, PR, etc), I want to keep a SEO / internet marketing / web design blog active on the site as well. Here are the choices: county + web design / seo / design city + web design / seo / design brandable / catchy
Hello ianeberle, from my point of view - have a "short" and "obvious" name is very important for domain name. so i'll choose "brandable / catchy" for domain name, some like FatCow.com, Name.com etc.
maybe some name that similar with a big-name site will also good, my friends do this sometime, example : mp3skull.co (similar with mp3skull.com), 4vector.com (similar with 4shared.com) but well - that for adsense / cpc things.. hehe
I have registered Codocity.com (pronounced "code-ah-city") but I'm still open to suggestions. May or may not use Codocity, just registered it so nobody can steal it while I'm still thinking. Any other suggestions? I'm going for catchy. The website I found Codocity on is BrandFishing.com. They have some good unregistered domain name suggestions there.