Which is the best domain name?

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Which of the following would be the best domain for a uk based flower company specialising in flowers for weddings?

(The following domain names are not the actual domains I am looking at just examples!)

flowersweddings.com
flowers-weddings.co.uk

What are your thoughts?
 
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Always go with a .com even if you have to add a hyphen. I have a hyphenated domain (****-****.com) that is ahead of ********.com. I really don't believe the hyphen is enough to make a difference in your ranking.
 
I almost always see domains WITH hyphen out ranking the no-hyphen sites.
 
From my experience I can say that the hyphen won't make any difference, and also I will go with the .com domain.

Don't forget that backlinks and good unique content will make the difference between you and your competitors.
 
A hyphen doesn't really devalue a name much if at all.

I'd suggest grabbing both the .com and the .co.uk, forward and mask one to the other. Then over time you could do some A-B testing if you wanted. My main thought is if you're looking at a UK-based business and/or doing a lot of geo-targetted marketing, sometimes a ccTLD is actually better than a .com for organic results.
 
gregstereo said:
A hyphen doesn't really devalue a name much if at all.

I'd suggest grabbing both the .com and the .co.uk, forward and mask one to the other. Then over time you could do some A-B testing if you wanted. My main thought is if you're looking at a UK-based business and/or doing a lot of geo-targetted marketing, sometimes a ccTLD is actually better than a .com for organic results.
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The business will be geo-targeted.

I have grabbed both domains. How do you mask one domain to the other will a re-direct do?
 
MisterTwister said:
The business will be geo-targeted.

I have grabbed both domains. How do you mask one domain to the other will a re-direct do?
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Sure you could do a simple 301 redirect. Or you could go into whereever the names are managed and they should have options to forward w/ or w/o masking in there.
 
Although I bought both the domains I will be using the .com.

Thanks for the advice.
 
See if you can get a non-plural version for wedding.
I've just checked Global Monthly search volume figures from Google External - you can see all of them below for a match type "broad":

flowers weddings - 49,500
flowers wedding - 1,000,000
flower weddings - 33,100
flower wedding - 450,000

As you can see, anything to do with wedding would get a bigger search volume than a similar phrase for weddings.
 
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Good idea on getting them both, since its targetting UK customers personally I would have gone for the .co.uk and in my experience hyphens have absolutely no negative impact on your SEO.
 
MisterTwister said:
Which of the following would be the best domain for a uk based flower company specialising in flowers for weddings?

(The following domain names are not the actual domains I am looking at just examples!)

flowersweddings.com
flowers-weddings.co.uk

What are your thoughts?
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Hm...UK?

Okay, none of the above.

Try any of these though:

flowershymeneals.com
flowernuptials.com
bloomerwedding.com
flowerspell.com
bloomernuptials.com
flowerwedden.com

BTW: I've just checked all these .com domains and I can confirm that they were not taken yet...:apple:

I hope it helps.
 
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