Calling All Wise Ones

[soggyindo]

hi folks,

I want to make a London portal for locals and tourists (both). I have two .info names (.com and .co.uk are a nightmare to find anything halfway good), and i'm not sure which to chose (if any) of these:

LondonUK.info

or

LondonUnitedKingdom.info

Surely #1 wins as the better name, especially for return visits.

But the stats have a big part to play in this case too:

"London UK" gets only 12,000 searches a month, but "London United Kingdom" gets a whopping 673,000 monthly searches.

My thought is to situate all the pages on the longer name -- for SEO purposes -- but use the shorter one for a landing page, the branding, and redirect (it's an abbreviation of it, anyway).

But I'm unsure - for consistency just use 1, just use 2, use both like this -- or use neither (of course London is in UK, why say it in the name).

So, I thought i'd ask the wise brain which is the NP talent pool

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[lzy]

What I'll do is;

Develop LondonUnitedKingdom.info and do a redirection from LondonUK.info.

Good luck. :tu:

 

[-REECE-]

I'd use LondonUK.info -- much nicer name and will save confusion for visitors.

 

[competentdomains]

What I'll do is;

Develop LondonUnitedKingdom.info and do a redirection from LondonUK.info.

Good luck. :tu:

Would be ok if the long one was shorter. I would go for the short one, with no doubts at all. I would try to develop also the long one in the same way though not identical.

 

[Robbie]

I would develop LondonUnitedKingdom.info - Point LondonUk.info to the site and brand using LondonUK.info as it is much easier to remember and brand but the .info domain isnt really used here much in the UK so you shall need to have good seo work on the domain.

Well these are my thoughts anyway.

Regards,

Robbie

 

[Charley]

I'd use LondonUK.info -- much nicer name and will save confusion for visitors.

Yea, that's the better option.

 

[FreshAvails.com]

Use the shorter one, it is much more brandable and easy to navagate to. If you want to redirect, redirect the long one to the shorter one.

 

[shockie]

i'd suggest developing the longer one, and redirecting the shorter one to the longer one.

(don't bother making two separate websites as "competent" suggested.) :blink:

 

[moped]

londonengland.info is available

 

[soggyindo]

Thanks guys. All your opinions have been really insightful.

I think i will brand it the shorter one, and stick files on the mega one - i'm not successful enough yet to turn down 670,000 willing searches!

londonengland.info is available

thanks. i checked and it seems a mr Rick Schwartz, who owns about 60 names, has owned it since 2004. I know a Rick Schwartz - and I know people who own 60 names - and the two sets of info don't compute!



any other brandable suggestions via pm greatly appreciated!

i've given reps to everyone i haven't already over-repped

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