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Which is a better domain for a photographer?

21 posts & 9 voices | Started 1 year ago by psychle | Latest reply from atlaz

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psychle - Member

Looking to start setting up my personal photography page, with the view to maybe promoting myself and maybe taking on a few jobs etc... I do a lot of travel photography, so I consider myself a 'seeker' of images... so I thought the word 'seek' would be nice to tie in with my business. Two domains I'm thinking of:

http://www.seekimagery.com
http://www.seekphotographic.com

or maybe both? maybe a hyphen in there would make sense?

unfortunately seekphotography.com is taken, I wonder if I'd be treading on his/her toes re. trademark etc? Ideally I would've liked seekbeauty.com but it's taken as well

Posted 1 year ago #
tomzo - Member

http://www.yourname.com

Unless you're going to a graphic design agency, setting up an proper brand with logos, headed paper etc etc etc i see no point in owning or trying to create a brand.

Plus, youname.com has the added benefit of 'getting your name out there' so to speak

Posted 1 year ago #
psychle - Member

unfortunately some other 'Simon Graham' has already taken 'my' domain

Posted 1 year ago #
tomzo - Member

Well, in that case

seekphotographic

Actually, no, go for the imagery one!

Posted 1 year ago #
psychle - Member

any other votes?

Posted 1 year ago #
TheTompy - Member

If you're eventually going to try and make money from this, I would suggest thinking about what terms will people to use to find you using a search engine. A good domain name will go a long way to making this easier for you to get on the all important first page of results (presuming the rest of your website is also up to scratch).

Regardless of how you see yourself, would someone type "seek" as part of a search to find a photographer or photographs? Would they use "imagery" or a word related to photography (you've probably noticed that Google already searches for synonyms)?

I'd avoid hyphens, if I were you.

Posted 1 year ago #
simonfbarnes - Member

http://www.wowpic.com isn't taken yet

Posted 1 year ago #
psychle - Member

cheers SFB... maybe you should grab that one?

Posted 1 year ago #
geoffj - Member

cheers SFB... maybe you should grab that one?

Surely you mean http://www.arsepic.com

EDIT: That's as in the anatomy, not the quality BTW.

Posted 1 year ago #
simonfbarnes - Member

I was thinking along those lines

Posted 1 year ago #
simonfbarnes - Member

http://www.hubbatottybum.com ?

Posted 1 year ago #
ourkidsam - Member

I'd avoid hyphens, if I were you.

I don't particularly like it, but you should use them to separate words for search engine optimisation. http://www.arse-pics.com will rank higher than http://www.arsepics.com in a google search

Posted 1 year ago #
Bez - Member

Posted 1 year ago #
simonfbarnes - Member

but you should use them to separate words for search engine optimisation

since you're not privy to the rules they use you cannot know this

Posted 1 year ago #
psychle - Member

I don't particularly like it, but you should use them to separate words for search engine optimisation. http://www.arse-pics.com will rank higher than http://www.arsepics.com in a google search

That's kind of what I was thinking as well... though makes it harder for folk to just 'remember' the url...

Posted 1 year ago #
ourkidsam - Member

I can know this because I read it.

Posted 1 year ago #
simonfbarnes - Member

I can know this because I read it.

you mean you can read other people's wild guesses

Posted 1 year ago #
ourkidsam - Member

I wish I could remember where now! It was at work so was probably a reasonably legit source. It stuck in my mind because I thought it was stupid at the time - people don't remember hyphens in URLs. But thinking about it, a machine is will know for sure that each word in a hyphenated URL is a word, therefore that URL will rank higher than the equivalent where it's having to guess where one word stops and another begins.

Posted 1 year ago #
molgrips - Member

But thinking about it, a machine is will know for sure that each word in a hyphenated URL is a word, therefore that URL will rank higher than the equivalent where it's having to guess where one word stops and another begins

A machine will be able to seperate multiple words concatenated together, because it has a dictionary built into it.

Posted 1 year ago #
simonfbarnes - Member

therefore that URL will rank higher than the equivalent where it's having to guess where one word stops and another begins.

if the letters of the URL signified anything in search rankings which I believe is not the case...

Posted 1 year ago #
atlaz - Member

We have an experienced SEO team (half our business is natural search generated), they say hyphens do nothing to help SEO, do a bit to confuse users. I'll go with their advice

I'd avoid the word imagery as people will spell it wrong and you'll end up having to buy typos to make sure you don't lose email or hits.

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