Which name should I get? Advice needed

[Greg]

I am a painter by trade. I am looking for a name to develop into my professional website. I already own the name of my company.

Are these good names to pursue:

(GEO)Painting .com
(GEO)-Painting .com
(GEO)Painter .com
(GEO)-Painter .com

I guess specifically which do you like better...(GEO)Painting or (GEO)Painter. Any other names that may be beneficial to my painting business.

 

[raphnix]

(GEO)Painting will look and read more professional so I suggest for that name. Also, you might want to add 's' for better SE competition.

(GEO)Paintings is what I think a good one.

 

[Jaco]

Ignore the dashes, but always buy logical alternates whenever possible, especially if they're sitting out there @ reg.

If you can get RoanokePainter.com and RoanokePainting.com for $6.99- and you're a painter in Roanoke- it's insane to not buy both. As far as what platform to develop, that's another discussion, but if we're talking about open-reg here, might not be a bad idea to just buy them all. Whatever one you decide to make the backbone of your development scheme, buy the c/n/o and .us. The rest, .com is adequate and they can just point to it.

Go here and type in relevant keywords to get an idea of what people are searching for. Make sure to set the little dropdown menu on the right to "exact" so you get exact searches. This might show that a longtail name should be added to the stable, too (for example, maybe a lot of people are searching for House Painter In Roanoke, which means that HousePainterInRoanoke.com should be brought on board and enriched with generic search-relevant content so you crush the category but control the content . The readers can then be 'gently steered' to your painting services :D)

 

[corgi]

GEOpainting.com, if you paint houses, walls, etc.


Geopainter.com, if you're a painter in the artist sense.