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Nov 05, 2010 14:05 |  #1

I have 4 URLs.

www.digitalroomstudios​.com (external link)
www.digitalroomstudios​.net (external link)
www.drs-photo.com (external link)
www.drs-photo.net (external link)

All of them are going to point to www.digitalroomstudios​.com (external link) as Digital Room Studios is my business name.

I picked up the drs-photo.com and .net as it's always better to have a shorter url, but when should I use them? I had digitalroomstudios.com on my business cards. Should a business owner use multiple URLs for their business? Would that end up being confusing for customers to identify with?

I mean, I was thinking about getting some cool logo stickers made up, but for something small like that should I use drs-photo?


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Nov 05, 2010 15:27 |  #2

Personally I would pick only one that customers ever see. The others can remain as ways to catch typos or search engine hits, but I would not confuse customers by using and having to explain more than one url. I think if it were me, I'd stick with digitalroomstudios.com​, even though it's a bit long.

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Nov 05, 2010 15:49 |  #3

tracknut wrote in post #11231767 (external link)
Personally I would pick only one that customers ever see. The others can remain as ways to catch typos or search engine hits, but I would not confuse customers by using and having to explain more than one url. I think if it were me, I'd stick with digitalroomstudios.com​, even though it's a bit long.

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I'd agree with that, and if your business name is Digital Room Studios then www.digitalroomstudios​.com (external link) would make the most sense.


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Nov 06, 2010 09:27 as a reply to  @ Journeyingjon's post |  #4

Personally I would pick only one that customers ever see. The others can remain as ways to catch typos

This. ^^^

Don't confuse your clients with intentional multiple URLs to the same site. Give them one primary URL, preferrably a *.com, because "com" is what most people are accustomed to in the US.

Then figure out the two or three most likely typos or misspellings, buy them, and redirect them to your main site. One common typo of my URL used to send clients to a French transsexual support forum. I found out about it when a couple of clients called and asked, "Is that where I was supposed to be?" I waited a year for that URL to become available, then I bought it and redirected it to my main site.

I use a "mother" *.net site as a base because I also use temporary URLs that point to pages on my site that I put up for limited special projects. My *.com address is redirected to the index page on my *.net site.

I also have a mobile site in a folder on the same site--it has its own shorter URL (because it's harder to type with one's thumbs), although my main site index page does have a prominent link to it. I'd like to automatically redirect mobile phones from my *.com to my mobile site, but I haven't found a good method to automatically detect every type of mobile phone that doesn't require constant updating.

When you get into mobile phone sites, you have to make a decision of whether to make that one a *.mobi or an m. subdomain, then redirect the other option to it. In my case, my mobile site is an m. subdomain and I have two *.mobi URLs that direct to it.


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Nov 08, 2010 10:52 |  #5

drs-photo is just asking for mistypings. digitalroomstudio is fine and more memorable to me. plus, drs reminds me of DOCTORS which is just confusing.


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Nov 09, 2010 00:58 as a reply to  @ lookingforaname's post |  #6

Also, advertise the site as www.DigitalRoomStudios​.com (external link). By capitalizing the three words, it will result in less typos. The mind recognizes the three words much more than one long word. The internet doesn't know the difference between capital letters or not.




  
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craigvince wrote in post #11251147 (external link)
Also, advertise the site as www.DigitalRoomStudios​.com (external link). By capitalizing the three words, it will result in less typos. The mind recognizes the three words much more than one long word. The internet doesn't know the difference between capital letters or not.

www.DigItAlRoomsTudios​.com (external link) ? :D


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