Comments on: Dot biz versus dot com http://seocontentdeveloper.com/2008/10/23/dot-biz-versus-dot-com/ Developing content to feed the engine Sun, 06 May 2012 18:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: katrinagibson http://seocontentdeveloper.com/2008/10/23/dot-biz-versus-dot-com/#comment-127 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:49:37 +0000 http://katrinavantyne.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-127 Thanks David. I’m still deciding on a name but I’m going with a .com…Thanks for the info and the link!
Katrina

]]> By: David (Marketing Integrity) http://seocontentdeveloper.com/2008/10/23/dot-biz-versus-dot-com/#comment-125 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:14:03 +0000 http://katrinavantyne.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-125 Katrina, I have battled with the same thing for the past 6 months. My company is named Marketing Integrity but a domain reseller owns MarketingIntegrity.com and will kindly sell it to me for $2300! A wee bit too steep a price in this economy!

My Tag Line is Navigate Your Marketing. I decided to purchase the domain http://NavigateYourMarketing.com/ – longer than I would like, but I think a reasonable solution. Ideally, if you can keep your domain shorter it is better. However, more and more, people are connecting to your business via a search on Google. Then it really just comes down to your domain being logical to understand as John nicely communicates above. Then, it is all about SEO and how your business represents itself through its web site.

You will also notice that doing something simple like capitalizing the first letter of each distinct word in the URL helps one read it better in print. Good luck in your decision! Hope this is helpful to you!

]]> By: katrinagibson http://seocontentdeveloper.com/2008/10/23/dot-biz-versus-dot-com/#comment-124 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:49:21 +0000 http://katrinavantyne.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-124 Thanks John!

]]> By: John Robinson http://seocontentdeveloper.com/2008/10/23/dot-biz-versus-dot-com/#comment-123 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:25:39 +0000 http://katrinavantyne.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-123 I think in most cases, availability will make the decision for you.

All things being equal, the .com is a better address. But when you have to resort to cryptic URLs just to stay in .com, .com starts to lose its advantage.

For example, JohnRobinson.com is superior to JohnRobinson.biz, but if I have to resort to JC-Robinson, John_Robinson, or JRobinsonLynn1984 to stay in .com, I’m better off taking the simple JohnRobinson over to .biz.

If I own a bar called Stella’s Billiards, and some guy in Seattle already owns StellasBilliards.com, I’m better off with Stellasbilliards.biz than I am with Shootpoolindanvers.biz

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