I want to start my own weird facts/offbeat news website. I have these two domains I'm not using, so I think one of them would make a good match: toasty.info (as in Toasty Info) amazingly.info (Amazingly True Info or something like that) Which name do you think is better? For some reason I like toasty.info better, but I don't know why.
Toasty isnt a UK phrase other than meaning warm and therefore option 2 would have a more international appeal if that is of importance
That's really all it means in the US. It would simply be something they think they can market. Domains and names don't always have to be keyword-rich.
But it firstly helps for SEO and secondly it also helps if someone has an idea of the content before clicking through (or that it has an intreaging name). Something that just doesnt make sense will get a lower click through rate. Likewise I dont like either but that is mainly due to the .info extension
A keyword-rich domain doesn't do that much to help SEO rankings. Is Google.com searchengine.com? Is Flickr.com coolphotos.com? Is Godaddy.com webhost.com? Is Digg.com technews.com? Is Digitalpoint.com webmaster.com? You catch my drift? If your site is good, people will visit it. A unique name is what makes a site catchy, not something boring but keyword-rich. Just about every successful site I know has a unique name.
I would go with the first one....toasty.info. Sounds better than the first, but not really a fan of either!
toasty doesnt go with the subject of ur website content.......for "weird facts/offbeat news website" amazingly.info definitely goes with it plus in search engines this keyword would "click" unless ur website-content is purely "weird facts/offbeat news" doesnt i look
Most of the "intriguing" names out there aren't keyword-rich domains... they're "brandable" domains, like several already mentioned by Sleepy_Sentry. It also certainly has nothing to do with clickthrough rates... if you market it effectively, most of your links will be from anchor text and not your main domain, and when the main domain is used, it's all about whether or not it's brandable and memorable. Clever, cute, and catchy is usually more memorable than a bunch of keywords. It's just basic marketing.