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I have two domain names, wpdaily.com, and wordpressdaily.com
I am planning on building a website on one of the domain names and use the other as a redirect, and I was just wondering if you guys had any advice on which one should be which. Basically it's a toss up between which ones easier to type and which one is a little more keyword rich. -
Unless your audience is coming at your randomly from a mobile device, I think think a URL under 20 characters is really not going to prove problematic for you.
It seems as though it would make most sense to brand your site as "Word Press Daily" and the domain should be accurately reflective of that. There is more confusion I see from people knowing you as "Word Press Daily" but not remembering your URL and just knowing it isn't as simple as "wordpressdaily.com". Have wpdaily as a "nice to have".
Also, I only say this because your site isn't well known -- so the reduction of confusion is most important. Obviously some people have been VERY successful not following this course of action like "The New York Times" and "nytimes.com" -- much nicer and shorter than "thenewyorktimes.com" (which works also). But nytimes.com is much more popular and can get away with it imo. -
I agree with mringlein. I would go with wordpressdaily.com just because your site is not well known. By using a keyword heavy name, you can get better search results rankings which of course the main thing you need. nytimes.com works for the New York Times because the company was already well established before they got a domain name when the Internet was invented. However, Word Press Daily is just starting now, so you will need any help you can get to get better rankings.
Likewise, I think your site name would consequently be Word Press Daily. I like the idea of having wpdaily.com as a redirect. -
I wouldn't use the "wordpress" version, since wordpress is trademarked:
http://wordpress.org/about/domains/ -
wpdaily.com it is then! Nice catch realweb.
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