Need feedback on domain name

[magnet-man]

Ok everyone gets to help pick my domain name! I have registered both names but am not sure which one I want to use as the actual site. The other domain name will point to the one I use. So vote early and vote often.

honeymoonapiaries.com
honeymoonapiary.com

[size="1"][ November 11, 2006, 09:27 PM: Message edited by: magnet-man ][/size]

[betrbekepn]

I vote for honeymoonapiary.com but it seems everybodody else related to beekeeping preferse apiaries.com for some reason? Flip a coin!

[tecumseh]

I had one time thought about doin' the dot com thing and had just decided that honey bucket apiaries was a good choice, but then came along an old fart who suggest the name was not such a great marketing logo.

so why are you doin' the dot com thing magnet man?

[George Fergusson]

If you've got 2 apiaries, use the plural form. Otherwise, use the singular form. It doesn't really matter, half the people can't spell it either way and the other half think an "apiary" has something to do with birds [img]smile.gif[/img]

[magnet-man]

half the people can't spell it either way

I fall into both groups. Half the time I can spell it and half the time I can't.

honey bucket apiaries....the name was not such a great marketing logo.

Here in Tulsa there is a small tanker truck that has "Honey Wagon" on the side of it. Guess what they do?

I am doing the dot com thing because my free web space has maxed out. Billsbees.com was already taken and I couldn't get the guy who owned it to give it up. Since I have a cool honey label, might as well make use of it in other ways. Because my label is retro, my web site might also have a retro look.

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[DChap]

Honey Wagon = septic tank pumper

Blessed Bee
Doug

[iddee]

Think for yourself. If you were buying from a website, would you be quicker to buy from a company with just one beeyard, or one with multiple bee yards. If you plan to sell more than one variety of honey, I would definitely go plural.
You are in OK. If you sell orange blossom honey, the plural form says you may have hives in orange groves, without you ever stating it. The singular form would SCREAM "He is buying and reselling honey, not raising it himself."

[buckbee]

Since you have strayed into my specialist territory, I feel an urge to add my two pennyworth.

If you want to get a higher listing on Google for, say, 'apiary', it is better to use a hyphen or an underscore, as in 'honeymoon-apiary.com' than all in one 'honeymoonapiary.com', as Google will see the former as two words and the latter as one. So in the formaer case your domain would be listed in a search for 'honeymoon' and for 'apiary', whereas in the latter it would only be found in searches for 'honeymoonapiary'. This is only likely to happen if the searcher has already heard of you.

Hope tht helps, although it won't help with the question you actually asked...

[Jim Fischer]

Domain names matter not a bit, as all the
search engines look at page content.

Consider, for example: http://www.kuro5hin.org
One is forced to wonder how to say the name,
one cannot recall it with ease, and typing it
is hard. Despite these drawbacks, it is very
popular, and stumbled upon by many people who
were not aware that it existed.

Worry about content, not packaging.

[Cyndi]

Well, I voted for the apiaries. I think it sounds better in general. An apiary sounds like a lab, whereas apiaries, sounds like you got lots of bees and HONEY!!

I recently did mine too, its called cyndisbees.com I haven't put it together yet though. I really just wanted to put it together for fun and have a facts about bees website. When I bought the main domain for my other business the other day, I got additonal ones real cheap. I got mine from godaddy.com The one for my other business was purchased for 10 years. That is suppose to help with googling as well. At least they say it is..who knows. Good luck.

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[naturebee]

--Domain names matter not a bit, as all the
search engines look at page content.--(JF)

Oh but of course they do!!!

Do you see my page in the with my honey products showing up on any of the 630 results from this search below that the average consumer here in PA might make looking for local honey?

(Pennsylvania "local honey")

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...22&btnG=Search

A good domain name can bring thousands of dollars to your business.

Take someone looking for “local honey”

The first thing many do is type in ‘local honey’ then hold ‘Ctrl’ while pressing ’Enter’ and the site www.localhoney.com comes up.

This is a reason why the domain name ‘creditcard.com’ recently sold for nearly $3million dollars. They matter, and are easy to remember and the address is very descriptive of the product. Looking for something?,,, put a www and a .com on each side of what you are looking for and it is very effective.

With my domain name, I had two goals. 1) was that it be pretty easy to remember without the need to write it out. And 2) was that it portray the type of beekeeping style and honey product I have.

I love Magnet Mans name ‘honey moon apiaries’. It just has great marketing appeal. It is easy to remember, and it does identify what the product is to the consumer as well as recognition to the beekeeper. But does the average person know what an apiary is?,,, or how to spell it?,,, Not sure this will be a problem, but in handing out the address, he will probably have to spell it out to be sure that the customers get it right.

Also, when promoting a site on search engines it is a good idea to spell the name in all the possible wrong spellings and combinations that a consumer might make, like ’hony moon apiary” “local hony” etc.

[magnet-man]

Thanks for voting. The votes confirmed my choice of honeymoonapiaries.com. Nothing like a small focus group.

As far as placement from a Google search, Google has a guide for getting better placement.

[Ann]

Why not get both? Godaddy.com is cheap enough, I registered two names for two years for $35, one .org and one .com.

[naturebee]

I regestered my domain at:

http://123cheapdomains.com/

[magnet-man]

I registered both domains a few days back for five years. Honeymoonapiaries.com is the actual site and if someone types in Honeymoonapiary.com it will redirect automatically to the real site.

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[UtahBeekeeper]

See below . . . .

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[UtahBeekeeper]

Where it is true that the domain name can be "searchable" it is mostly a vanity thing. It is the use of every background code and meta tag available that makes a site searchable. Case in point I built and manage several websites here locally and one of them is Melinas Mexican Restaurants at melinas.com. A local will know the name, but a tourist will not, and will search something like "ogden mexican restaurants" on Google. There are over 50 of them here, yet Melinas comes up very near the top of page one. Give it a try. The domain name is not as important as key words in all the available places. You have to figure out what someone will type in a search string who does not know you. Good luck, and good fortune!

James