What's in a URL?

when you have a name which is less than simple it becomes a real pain expalining to people what your domain name is. for example you will have to say:

keith brown rigg (with two g's) photography (all one word) dot co dot uk

I'd go for kbrphotography.co.uk which will be much simpler.

and did you mean krb or kbr?
 
I would go with the second one, its simple yet "photography" is in there which sounded nicer
 
ding76uk said:
Short, sweet and simple wins the day.

Your surname is an unusual spelling (the double g will catch quite a few out), so maybe go for krbphoto.co.uk

Maybe also consider kbrphoto.co.uk

Fits better with Brownrigg too.
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+1 to that.
 
I'd say either number 1 or two, but if it was me i'd go for both because if you try and remember photo you might end up with photography and vice versa, I'd also use/advertise #2 as the primary domain name as it sounds a little bit more professional
I'd probably also go with the kbr misspellings, but it depends on your budget.
 
Hi all, cheers for all the replies!

I suppose the Brownrigg spelling issue should have been a rather obvious problem as it happens rather regularly after having conversations over the phone, it can be quite interesting to see what people just make up and add after the Brown.

The KRB is for my initials, thought it sounded better than just KB.

I think krbphoto and krbphotography might be getting picked up as long as some enterprising person on here hasn't picked them up!
 
I worked in web design - and SEO (search engine optimisation) for a long time. Good advice above, but I would second buying all of them as you can always redirect from any of the URLs to your site.

Biggest consideration is to keep it simple: long URLs are a nightmare as people simply forget them; type them in wrong; they're a pain for livery if you want to advertise on vehicles; they're a pain for business cards, etc, etc.

Fundament to successful SEO and web design is keep it simple, make your visitors have to use as little effort as possible to find your site, then navigate round it.

With regards search engines, it's important to have photo and photography as these are terms people will actively use, but again a trade off between SEO and URL length again. When you list your site, make the most of your location as this will make your site geographically relevant and narrow down search results for people looking for photographers in your area.

Hope this helps.

Peter
 
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