Wardy
Well-Known Member
I know this stuff has been mentioned before (hello Scotty) but I wanted an up to date answer (and I can't be bothered to search).
I'm thinking of a couple of off-shoot portfolio sites alongside my general illustration site.
Is it still important to include keywords in the domain name for search purposes? For instance, if I was looking at 'bookillustration.com', that's either going to be very expensive
or not available. If I stuck my name in front of it would that be better if it was a lot cheaper or does it make it less searchable? How does Google split the words up anyway, would I
come up in a lot of 'kill' searches for instance?!
How important is a .com? Any enquiries I get from outside the UK I tend to be too expensive for anyway, so should I stick to .co.uk or will this be worse for general Google searches?
What about different extensions? I saw a very good name but with .org, would that be worth it or would it be less likely to come up on searches?
I'm thinking of a couple of off-shoot portfolio sites alongside my general illustration site.
Is it still important to include keywords in the domain name for search purposes? For instance, if I was looking at 'bookillustration.com', that's either going to be very expensive
or not available. If I stuck my name in front of it would that be better if it was a lot cheaper or does it make it less searchable? How does Google split the words up anyway, would I
come up in a lot of 'kill' searches for instance?!
How important is a .com? Any enquiries I get from outside the UK I tend to be too expensive for anyway, so should I stick to .co.uk or will this be worse for general Google searches?
What about different extensions? I saw a very good name but with .org, would that be worth it or would it be less likely to come up on searches?