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How do people feel about long urls?
Old School url conventions had us putting the name of the business in full in the domain because it helped Google to find it and rank it high. Keywords were of utmost importance in Google rankings, and if any of your keywords were part of your URL, that was weighted even more highly.
But the problem is that you end up with these really long URLs that have the full business name. So you have to type this whole thing in, but the positive side is that you could find just about any business' website by taking a chance and typing their name into the address bar. I still find websites this way and only go to Google if that doesn't work.
So nowadays, linkbacks are the more important method of getting high Google rankings. The more independent websites (that are not link farms) that link back to you, including blogs, the more important Google thinks you are, because people are talking about you.
This means that the specific characters in the URL are much less important, but for non-Google advertising, it still helps to have an easy-to-remember URL, like for business cards and ads.
The point of all this is that I'm ready to buy the domain for the Polyamory Media Association that I am creating, which will bridge the gap between the poly community and the media. We will be maintaining a database of poly people who are interested in talking to the media, including their relationship setup, what types of media they're interested in, etc., we'll offer media training, and we'll also screen media requests as well as actively pursue media events. I've been calling the organization PMA for short, and I finally decided to create www.pma.com only to discover today when I tried to buy it, that pma.com was already taken, as well as every other suffix possible for pma.
My next instinct is to go with the full URL, polymediaassociation.com but I'm resistant to such long URLs even though I tend to prefer full name URLs.
So, I'm throwing this open to suggestions. What kind of URL would you like or be willing to follow or be able to remember if you wanted to find this website?
TAKEN:
pma
tpma
pmassociation
pmassoc
pmagroup
thepma
POSSIBLE OPTIONS:
polymediaassociation
polyamorymediaassocation
polymediaassoc
anthing else?
*UPDATE* polymediagroup.com is available, and I suppose I could always change the name to PMG, I just like how "association" sounds. I'm trying to come off as professional as possible, it's a national organization, so I don't want it to sound like a local poly group or run by a single person (it's not, I have lots of associates who are helping me).
*UPDATE #2* I just thought about possibly changing the name to polymedianetwork.com since I've pretty much ruled out polymediagroup. The pros: shorter than polymediaassociation; no double letters; the word "network" is very similar to "association" in connotation. The cons: still longer than pma.com or polymedia.com; I have to change the name and the acronym to PMN and I don't know if I like how it looks as well as PMA; "network" implies a looser connection than "association" but not significantly so.
Old School url conventions had us putting the name of the business in full in the domain because it helped Google to find it and rank it high. Keywords were of utmost importance in Google rankings, and if any of your keywords were part of your URL, that was weighted even more highly.
But the problem is that you end up with these really long URLs that have the full business name. So you have to type this whole thing in, but the positive side is that you could find just about any business' website by taking a chance and typing their name into the address bar. I still find websites this way and only go to Google if that doesn't work.
So nowadays, linkbacks are the more important method of getting high Google rankings. The more independent websites (that are not link farms) that link back to you, including blogs, the more important Google thinks you are, because people are talking about you.
This means that the specific characters in the URL are much less important, but for non-Google advertising, it still helps to have an easy-to-remember URL, like for business cards and ads.
The point of all this is that I'm ready to buy the domain for the Polyamory Media Association that I am creating, which will bridge the gap between the poly community and the media. We will be maintaining a database of poly people who are interested in talking to the media, including their relationship setup, what types of media they're interested in, etc., we'll offer media training, and we'll also screen media requests as well as actively pursue media events. I've been calling the organization PMA for short, and I finally decided to create www.pma.com only to discover today when I tried to buy it, that pma.com was already taken, as well as every other suffix possible for pma.
My next instinct is to go with the full URL, polymediaassociation.com but I'm resistant to such long URLs even though I tend to prefer full name URLs.
So, I'm throwing this open to suggestions. What kind of URL would you like or be willing to follow or be able to remember if you wanted to find this website?
TAKEN:
pma
tpma
pmassociation
pmassoc
pmagroup
thepma
POSSIBLE OPTIONS:
polymediaassociation
polyamorymediaassocation
polymediaassoc
anthing else?
*UPDATE* polymediagroup.com is available, and I suppose I could always change the name to PMG, I just like how "association" sounds. I'm trying to come off as professional as possible, it's a national organization, so I don't want it to sound like a local poly group or run by a single person (it's not, I have lots of associates who are helping me).
*UPDATE #2* I just thought about possibly changing the name to polymedianetwork.com since I've pretty much ruled out polymediagroup. The pros: shorter than polymediaassociation; no double letters; the word "network" is very similar to "association" in connotation. The cons: still longer than pma.com or polymedia.com; I have to change the name and the acronym to PMN and I don't know if I like how it looks as well as PMA; "network" implies a looser connection than "association" but not significantly so.
