As all area agents in my area and accross the country have taken almost every real estate website domain, I am asking for helpf from everyone.
My current website is www.NewRealEstateProperty.com - Please go to so you get an idea that might help.
Too Lengthy, so I need some help from everyone. Any suggestions, as you should go to my site, as you will get a good idea of the area, names, wording, and maybe come up with something. If I choose your suggestion, I will send you a $50 gift card to your favorite restaurant!
Thanks as that is what the Active Rain Community and friends are for!
Dave Werth Realtor. Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Real Estate & Rural ND MN. Land for Sale. Licensed in North Dakota & Minnesota. First Time Home Buyer Education Instructor. Homes for Sale Fargo Moorhead
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Save your $50.00 and check out godaddy.com. They will give you thousands of domain names to choose from. Clever way to get traffic to your current site. Cheers.
www.eFargoHomes.com And it's still available.
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You need to have 2 domains.
One for search engines, SEO and one for your clients and people you meet to remember.
The one for your people and you clients and those you market to should always be yourname.com.This is the biggest mistake agents and mortgage companies make in online marketing. This is a must.
Then for SEO, it must be a searchable key word that you are using that people are typing into the search field. That you can only find out through doing keyword research. I write some posts about that. Our main keyword is Wellington Florida Luxury Homes. Our domain for SEO is Wellington-Luxury-Homes.com. Katerina
I can suggest this post that I made a while back http://activerain.com/blogsview/662309/This-article-is-not
If people search the words in your current domain it will be impossible for them to work towards ranking on your site. real estate, new, property, think of how many millions of websites and pages contain those words or domains with those words. It would be impossible.
What you can do is like I suggest in that article is pick a new name that contains the most important keywords that someone might be looking for. You are in Fargo ND The problem with ND is that few are going to search north dakota or ND. It is so split up. so half might go one way or the other. you for sure want fargo in the name. I suppose fargorealestate is taken. But I would try to figure out the number one set of key words in the area. www.fargorealestatehome.com Thats catchy and contains much of what someone might be looking for.. a home and real estate and fargo. its also available https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/registrar/search.asp?domainToCheck=fargorealestatehome&tld=COM&checkAvail=1&ci=12014
If you dont like that one just use the formula I provided in that link. Also make sure you continue to forward your old domain to your new one. That way if people dont know its moved they will be redirected. I would do a huge campaign annoucing the new site. I would also spice up the new site first before you tell the world. Use the time to do whatever cool changes you always wanted to do.
You do have a good page rank for that current domain so you will be rebuilding here.
Let me know if you have any other questions. Also if I win! :)
I would have done this for free just so you know...
FindFargoHomes.com
could be good for google
www.minnrealtor.net
I would not put your name in a domain. No one will ever be looking for your name. I just dont see the need for having a www.shaneogorman.com if they can remember my name they can google my name and find me all over the place. Also people I meet I will give them my card with my site on it and promote that. I dont see having multiple sites. I mean it could work and it certainly wont hurt but you are trying to get people to your main site at this point. I think having the other site is just fluff.
Also sold and sales and selling are ok but are they really high ranking key words? are those the words people are using to search for real estate? I would think they are using words like find search real estate homes buy sell list mls
sell my home, find a new home, search the fargo mls, fargo mls, fargo real estate, fargo homes, homes in fargo, buy a home in fargo, sell my fargo home, list my fargo home.
This seems more likely than
sold fargo home, sold my fargo home, selling fargo homes, selling real estate in fargo? These are things you are doing as part of your job but not things people are looking for. Who knows maybe they are in your area but they arent in mine. You have to take into account grammar here because why would someone say sold fargo home in a search? Wouldnt they be saying find a new home in fargo? where can I search for homes in fargo?
Something to think about.
Dave,
I buy a lot of domains and have three website businesses and pay for SEO, so I know a little bit about what I am talking about. The URL is not so much the key to high SEO placement but the titles of the pages and the key words planted in each and every single page.
But you'd benefit from a shorter, cleaner URL.
This is available and I would buy it tonight from GoDaddy.com:
NorthDakotaDave.com
It's clean, suggests that you can sell in the whole state (which you can) and would make a clever catch phrase: Nobody sells North Dakota like North Dakota Dave.
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Kimberly Dotseth
GreenBoxHomes.com
You definitely need www.DaveWeth.com, because some folks will remember your name, but not your company or slogan. Traffic can be directed there from your "catchy" web site address - something like www.FargoHomePro.com.
Hi Dave;
I think you are OK, do not change a thing. Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anthony
Keep it simple and go with "DaveWorth.com". It works wherever you should decide to go and whatever career you pursue. I scanned the other replies and didn't see that listed.
Aloha
If you are actively doing SEO work under your name. All traffic that you create, any links you generate will already have your name. In 2 months I created so much buzz around my name that it shows up as like 28 out of 30 in the results. It also shows up even if you mispell it. I dont see any reason to put your name in the domain. In fact putting your name in the domain is considered by many to be the worst approach to seo you can do. No one will be looking for your name. They will be looking for houses homes listings mls real estate fargo buy sell etc not dave worth.
If you wanted to create multiple sites it would make more sense to have domains under other key words or phrases. The least likely way they would be looking is for someones name. and like I said if you are generating backlinks they can find your name already.. its on every single blog you publish.
Here is another good post on how to select a domain name.
http://activerain.com/blogsview/641159/4-Keys-to-Selecting
You might also want to consider how many links you have built up for your first site. If its alot switching now might take a while to get back to that point. you can always use domain forwarding though.
Lots of great interaction on SEO and domain names discussed!!! Eau...you make some good points!!