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Dibs! …. on that domain name.
@RICH.
Published on July 19, 2012
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My current 30 Day Success Club Website, Experiment #3, will utilise a 5-word long-tail domain name. For those familiar with Jaaxy, it has Monthly Searches: 344907, Estimated Traffic: 58635, QSR: 74, had that very, very pretty green light, and an SEO of 96. Oh, and both the .com and .org were available. In other words, it was totally irresistible, my promises to Vimini (veronica.l) Cricket be DAMN’d.
This got me to thinking, how is it possible to associate social networking with a long-tail domain name. Twitter et al aren’t exactly accommodating about @onetwothreefourfiveword handles and long-tails are hard to give out over the phone and put on business cards. I therefore went back and re-read Your First 10 Days about the variations on domain names: brands, brandable, keyword rich, etc. and decided to set myself the task of finding a 6-character brand domain name either .com or .org with the exact same word also available on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, et al.
I spent a couple of hours on this and failed. I finally had to extend and settle for 7-characters. I managed to find and acquire one that made me smile, DibsBiz, which also happened to be available across all the various platforms.
Now I’m wondering how I should mange this? Simply 301 redirect www.dibsbiz.com and .org to my long-tail and make it clear on the long-tail site that it is a ‘division’ of DibsBiz and that all social info about it will come from DibsBiz? Or should I create a separately hosted DibsBiz site which contains a directory of all my eventual long-tail sites that DibsBiz will be tweeting, FBs, G+ for, etc.
Or…. something completely different?
Any thoughts, criticisms, abuse, help, advice as always, wanted and appreciated.
Thanks!
Rich.
Photo: Rudy Eng (CCL)
This got me to thinking, how is it possible to associate social networking with a long-tail domain name. Twitter et al aren’t exactly accommodating about @onetwothreefourfiveword handles and long-tails are hard to give out over the phone and put on business cards. I therefore went back and re-read Your First 10 Days about the variations on domain names: brands, brandable, keyword rich, etc. and decided to set myself the task of finding a 6-character brand domain name either .com or .org with the exact same word also available on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, et al.
I spent a couple of hours on this and failed. I finally had to extend and settle for 7-characters. I managed to find and acquire one that made me smile, DibsBiz, which also happened to be available across all the various platforms.
Now I’m wondering how I should mange this? Simply 301 redirect www.dibsbiz.com and .org to my long-tail and make it clear on the long-tail site that it is a ‘division’ of DibsBiz and that all social info about it will come from DibsBiz? Or should I create a separately hosted DibsBiz site which contains a directory of all my eventual long-tail sites that DibsBiz will be tweeting, FBs, G+ for, etc.
Or…. something completely different?
Any thoughts, criticisms, abuse, help, advice as always, wanted and appreciated.
Thanks!
Rich.
Photo: Rudy Eng (CCL)
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