The letter "S" and being plural

[mikeylondon]

Hi guy

Opinions / experience welcome again

Does the letter 'S' make a difference if the domain i have (just an example) is only bluecar.com and yet the search has been for "blue cars"?

Would my site still rank or would someone who has bluecars.com rank higher?


Also vice versa so domain owned is bluecars.com yet the search is for "blue car"?

Do any of you guys have a system that say for example if a plural domain is available then you would go for that?

Cheers,

Mike

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

As was said in the hyphens thread, visitor leakage can be an issue so if you are building a site try to get all the hyphen and S variations to protect your traffic.

 

[ScottJ]

Hi guy

Opinions / experience welcome again

Does the letter 'S' make a difference if the domain i have (just an example) is only bluecar.com and yet the search has been for "blue cars"?

Would my site still rank or would someone who has bluecars.com rank higher?


Also vice versa so domain owned is bluecars.com yet the search is for "blue car"?

Do any of you guys have a system that say for example if a plural domain is available then you would go for that?

Cheers,

Mike

Mike, you can rank for any term without having it in your domain name, fact is at present having a keyword domains helps a lot. Ranking for specific terms comes down to trust & links to your site, for non-competitive terms you can use on-site SEO to help rank for certain groups & types of keyphrases.

 

[mikeylondon]

Hi Admin

Thanks & appreciate the advice. Not sure if i had the question answered exactly though.

I was thinking of buying a variety of domains and not sure my budget would go that far, hence me trying to discover that if i initially went for one which one would be the best option etc

So my question is if i owned the domain bluecar.com and someone had searched "blue cars" does google recognise that in esscence it is the same word and would my site still rank. Vice versa if someone searched "blue car" but i own the domain bluecars.com would my site appear?

Some of the domains i am looking at have gone so so some i don't have a choice!

So basically I have 8 options per domain and that is just one TLD!

a) bluecar
b) blue-car
c) bluecars
d) blue-cars

e) carblue
f) car-blue
g) carsblue
h) cars-blue


So if you had to make a choice for budget reasons between singular or plural which would you do?

@ Scott - yeh cheers Scott. Aware of this but just trying to get some keyword domain names that i have an idea for etc

Cheers,

Mike