domain name?

Still haven't found a domain name im 100% satisfied with yet but I am thinking radiantreflectionsva.com.


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He's guys , I was wondering what yall thought about radiantdetailing.com or something location based like starcitydetailing.com that the nick name for the city I live in .

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Both of those sound good to me, but what do I know, I never search for detailers.
 
Your best bet will be to get a major city and the word 'detailing' or 'detailer' in your domain name.

Based on your profile something like SalemDetailing.com (available) would be great.
 
It doesn't look like the .net version of radiantreflectionsdetailing is taken.
 
whavens said:
It doesn't look like the .net version of radiantreflectionsdetailing is taken.
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If any other extension of your preferred domain name is already in use, ESPECIALLY the .com, then you need to choose a different name.

If you are in fact located in Salem, I highly suggest SalemDetailing.com. That is coming from a web developer who does this for a living. :)
 
Your domain name should match your business name as closely as possible. You want people to be able to remember it and not be confused.
 
Scott@IncrediblyDetailed said:
Your domain name should match your business name as closely as possible. You want people to be able to remember it and not be confused.
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I'm going to disagree with you on that based on years of development and analytics experience.

For a service-based business like this where customer acquisition is your priority (especially true for a new business), your focus should be getting the initial traffic from people searching for your service. For this you are at the mercy of the search engines.

If you are looking for a detailer in Salem, VA most people are going to go to a search engine and type in something along the lines of 'car detailing salem va'. Without going into too much detail about search engine optimization, if some of those search terms are in your domain name you are way ahead of the game.

Once you have earned that new customer you can give them a business card or whatever marketing collateral you have so that they can remember your name.

And as for the 'easy to remember' part - if you live in Salem, VA, don't you think 'SalemDetailing.com' would be pretty easy to remember? :)
 
4bidden said:
If any other extension of your preferred domain name is already in use, ESPECIALLY the .com, then you need to choose a different name.
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I understand the logic of this, however I know one .net that's been pretty successful (autogeek.net).
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I understand the logic of this, however I know one .net that's been pretty successful (autogeek.net).
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I don't know the full history, but right now AutoGeek owns both the .com and the .net and just chooses to redirect the .com to the .net and use the .net for business. That is a totally different situation than I was referencing in which business A owned and operated the .com and new business B opened up shop at the .net.
 
4bidden said:
I don't know the full history, but right now AutoGeek owns both the .com and the .net and just chooses to redirect the .com to the .net and use the .net for business. That is a totally different situation than I was referencing in which business A owned and operated the .com and new business B opened up shop at the .net.
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Oh, that's new, I haven't mistyped the .com for a long time, it used to be owned by a different company.

EDIT: https://web.archive.org/web/20140209010152/http://autogeek.com/ag_AboutUs.asp
 
Salem is where I live and the main city in my area I work is Roanoke , va .

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Roanoke valley s the biggest city in sw va.
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jgibson2980 said:
Salem is where I live and the main city in my area I work is Roanoke , va .

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I was born in Lowmoor, VA near there. All of my family still lives in Hot Springs.

Based on my recommendation I'd then do something like RoanokeDetailing.com.

You can also purchase a domain name similar to your business name but have it redirect to the location-based name. As I mentioned earlier, you'll be way ahead of the game in getting people to organically find you online by using the location-based URL.
 
Will people in my surrouninh areas still be able to find me ?

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Of course. Your content will still need to mention the areas you service so the search engines can index you for those terms/cities.

Having the largest city you service in the domain name just gives you a very big advantage in the optimization game.
 
It's called an Exact Match Domain: houstonautodetailing.com or bestbusinesscards.com or buyiphonenow.com

What I would recommend is go into the Google Adwords Keyword Planner and see what keywords get searched the most.

For instance, I live in Houston:

- car detailing houston gets 480 searches a month
- auto detailing houston gets 260 searches a month
- houston car wash gets 210 searches a month
- houston detailing gets 20 searches a month

So it would make sense for my EMD to be cardetailinghouston.com because that's the highest volume of traffic.

I wouldn't want to put houstondetailing.com because only 20 people search that per month.

But, an EMD will not make or break your business/site.

Sure you'll get a slight advantage, but if you at least follow SEO best practices, you'll rank well in Google.

Here's some great resources:
- Local Search Ranking Factors 2014 - Local SEO and How to Rank in Google - Moz
- The Exact Match Domain Playbook: A Guide and Best Practices for EMDs - Moz
 
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