Let say I want to target the keyword "car" and buy the domain "car.com". If it is taken, is there any difference if I add just one letter or symbol like "car1.com" or many letters and symbols like "carforyou.com"? In this case, which domain will be more valuable: "car1.com" or "carforyou.com" if I search for a keyword "car" in Google?
Since domain names are designed to replace IP addresses like 69.60.7.199, it's best to get the shortest keyword possible and avoid numbers because domain names are not phone numbers. - 1 is not a premium number because it can be confused with the letter "i" and "l". - 1 is number and if spelled, it can be confused with "one", wich makes you want carone.com - "carforyou" is not a word, it's just a messy chunk of words stick together trying to make a word. - carforyou.com makes you look like you can't afford to buy car.com, car.tv, you.com, you.org, for.us, for.me - carforyou.com you can create confusing combinations like youcarfor.com, forcaryou.com, youforcar.com, caryoufor.com, foryoucar.com - The owner of you.com, can create carfor.you.com subdomain and "hack" your google ranking. - with carforyou.com, your helping car.com, for.com, you.com, carfor.com foryou.com to suck all your traffic. In other words, it simply make your domain name uglier.
I'll try not to get too technical. Google's search engine is based off a broad match, meaning that the domain www.car.com would be just as relevant as www.mycar.com The beauty of this is that if you grab a domain with a slightly longer tail name, it is going to be picked up for other search terms. Moral of the story is that it is perfectly ok if it is a slightly longer domain, just so long as you have the main keyword that you are targeting in the domain.