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youngmoneyblog · 10-06-2006, 02:16 PM

Whats your opinion about long domains names?

I recently purchased www.customembroideryservices.com... the largest domain name I own.

However, "custom embroidery" and "embroidery services" are two good keywords that have been searched well... hoping that this becomes searchable? and perhaps generate traffic for my business?

Thoughts?

MarcL · 10-06-2006, 02:20 PM

Nothing wrong with them, as long as they relate to the site, lets say like for example if you had a site that bids on games... then it would be very acceptible to have letsbigongames.com or something along those lines....
Good luck
MarcL

tekmoney · 10-06-2006, 02:39 PM

I think the general rule of thumb is under 16 characters, for the sake of people being able to remember what they are.

youngmoneyblog · 10-06-2006, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tekmoney

I think the general rule of thumb is under 16 characters, for the sake of people being able to remember what they are.

doh! way longer than that haha

NeeJam · 10-06-2006, 04:06 PM

People have the rule of under 25 characters, some people like the under 20 character rule but the under 25 is the one i prefer bbecuase you might have a nice tld even though its long, but if its related to the subject etc then there so really be no problem with it to be honest.

blah23 · 10-07-2006, 02:38 AM

i think anything past 3 words is pushing it for peoples memory, if you keep it to 3 words, no matter how long they are you should be fine

sicnarftea · 10-07-2006, 03:23 AM

its just too hard to remember, too easy to make a typo and in general very hard to market

imagine putting up a poster with that long url.
but the again, sometimes realy long urls become really really catchy.

benoitb · 10-07-2006, 10:23 AM

Well things like this are great for SEO, bad for branding.

CrushedGrape · 10-07-2006, 11:03 AM

I'm sure Matt Cutts has covered the length of URLs on his blog. It you haven't visited it before its well worth a visit. He covers all sorts of things you wouldn't think a person in his position would be able to cover. Although how much of it is hot or warm air is open to debate

CrushedGrape · 10-07-2006, 11:04 AM

I'm sure Matt Cutts has covered the length of URLs on his blog. It you haven't visited it before its well worth a visit. He covers all sorts of things you wouldn't think a person in his position would be able to cover. Although how much of it is hot or warm air is open to debate