Using words like "buy" or "shop" in domains names -- good idea? - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars

**drofwarc** · 02-02-2008, 04:05 PM

Hi all

Do words like “buy” or “shop” included in a domain name help drive good converting traffic for parking sites? For example: sportscarbuy.com. (somebody's taken that one, by the way)

Here are my Google results for a keyword I’m considering. The searches were done using quotation marks.

With the word “buy” at the end: Results 1 - 10 of about 20,200

With the word “shop” at the end: Results 1 - 10 of about 44,400

Thanks in advance for any tips you can share.

drofwarc

KaneCo · 02-02-2008, 04:09 PM

sportscarbuy really does not make sense

sportscarshop makes sense and is pretty good

**drofwarc** · 02-02-2008, 04:13 PM

Dang, did you just grab it?

KaneCo · 02-02-2008, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by drofwarc

Dang, did you just grab it?

no not me wouldn't do that to you

**drofwarc** · 02-02-2008, 04:37 PM

I appreciate that

.

If I put "shop" at the front of one of my keywords, I get this result from a google search using quotation marks:

Results 1 - 10 of about 12,300

Is that pretty decent? Would it be worth buying the domain and parking it?

Kind regards,

drofwarc

**hugegrowth** · 02-03-2008, 03:01 AM

'shop' should be at the end of the domain, like candyshop.com

unless its something like shopfordeals.com

'buy' should be in front, like buysunglasses.com

unless it's like goodbuy.com

does that make sense?

**drofwarc** · 02-03-2008, 07:37 PM

Thanks hugegrow,

I'm learning slowly but surely.

Kind regards,

drofwarc

**draggar** · 02-03-2008, 08:32 PM

As the general consensus is, it all depends on how it's used.

UsedCarBuy.com is bad (IMO) but UsedCarBuys.com is fair and UsedCarStore.com is good.

BuyUsedCars.com is also good.

Think of how it would be said.

**garptrader** · 02-04-2008, 01:19 AM

Our research indicates that it should meet the following specifications:

A maximum composition of five sequential and meaningful words, in context.
Length SHOULD not exceed 21 characters.
SHOULD not contains numeric characters (0-9).
Does not contain hyphens.
Is not a typographical error or "typo".
Consists of generic words or terms.
For the .COM TLD (other TLDs, ccTLDs and gTLDs etc. have higher requirements):
- Full word(s) sequence must be referenced > 150,000 times in Yahoo.
- Full word(s) sequence must be searched > 500 times monthly in Overture.

http://www.premiumdomain.com/whatisit/

**neonoceans** · 02-04-2008, 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garptrader

Our research indicates that it should meet the following specifications:

A maximum composition of five sequential and meaningful words, in context.
Length SHOULD not exceed 21 characters.
SHOULD not contains numeric characters (0-9).
Does not contain hyphens.
Is not a typographical error or "typo".
Consists of generic words or terms.
For the .COM TLD (other TLDs, ccTLDs and gTLDs etc. have higher requirements):
- Full word(s) sequence must be referenced > 150,000 times in Yahoo.
- Full word(s) sequence must be searched > 500 times monthly in Overture.

http://www.premiumdomain.com/whatisit/

So do you type in say, "usedcars" if that is your own domain to do a search on yahoo/overture/google or do you type in "used cars" as a space in a search term will give different search result numbers when compared to the exact domain i.e. usedcars vs. used cars. which criteria do you use when getting the number of searches?

**tinner666** · 02-04-2008, 06:10 PM

Sad to say then, i just bought a hypened dot com. Had a lot of google results though.

Still haven't figured out how to develop it either.

**coast** · 02-12-2008, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tinner666

Sad to say then, i just bought a hypened dot com. Had a lot of google results though.

Still haven't figured out how to develop it either.

Learn wordpress. It's free and there are a lot of ready-made "themes" (templates) available. The files are available at http://wordpress.org

Good luck.