I am a realtor. I have several area specific real estate sites which I am optimizing. I have come the the Blog stage of optimization. I bought www dot ask-your-realtor dot com with the intent to use it on wordpress as a blog, but then remembered that realtor is a trademarked/copywrited word. So my question is this: I want to buy another good domain name for my blog. Should I try to pick one that has words specific to my area (city name for example) or is it better to use a more generic domain name like...www dot real-estate-questions dot com ? Thanks, LLT
If you are trying to use your blog to generate local referrals, it would make more sense to pick a more local domain. I highly recommend reading this article from Search Engine Land: A Small Business Marketing Success Story: Teresa Boardman, Real Estate Agent