Advice pls.. With or without the 'S'?

[Rascal]

Hi all,

I'm planning to get a domain for example like YouTube.com

The thing is YouTubes kinda sounds better and more right but it's shorter without the 'S'.

Which do you I should go for? Reasons? Thanks!

 

[maxt0r]

always without "s" has more traffic...
but a good idea is to register both. For example i have submitword.com and submitwords.com

 

[choisey]

I would go for a singular form without 's'.

The reason is many people from Asian countries (like me) will not easily remember that there is 's' at the end.

I also agree that in case there is no need to consider Asian visitors, most likely the plural form with 's' looks better (e.g. NamePros.com rather than NamePro.com).

 

[htmlindex]

I would also go for the singular one unless it really makes sense to have the plural

 

[Traveler]

If by some chance they "S" is available in a name that is already developed and you plan to leech off that traffic you will probably get the name taken from you.

If that is not the case some names are better with the "s" and some are not it really depends on the name. OVT will not tell you because it combines the plural and singular of a search term but Wordtracker will.

Go to:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/?keywords=&country=us

The wordtracker is on the left and the OVT is on the right.

Hope that helps.

 

[bigturnip]

Depends on where you want your traffic to come from, without an 's' is generally more memorable and with an 's' is generally more search engine friendly. There are exceptions to this of course, but the best thing to do is register both.

The reasoning behind the with an 's' option being more search engine friendly is that it contains both the plural and non plural version. Take namepros for instance, a search for both namepro and namepros would bring up the result namepros, hence you pick up both searches.

 

[floatingworld]

bigturnip spot on