What sounds better?

[2_much]

I'm working on a project for the meditation center that I attend. We're reworking our website, including changing our domain name.

I know this is very basic but I'd love some opinions:

a. meditationlosangeles.com
b. meditationinlosangeles.com

What do you think?

[Macguru]

What about meditation-losangeles.com? You could benefit from the keyword in URL for search engines not supporting partial word matching like Google.

I also find it easyer to read on conventionnal medias.

[Hunter]

2_much,

I like MeditationLA.com and
LAMeditation.com...

[msr986]

How about meditation.la?

I don't like hyphens in URL's. It is more difficult to verbalize.

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oops, meditation.la is already gone.

I like Hunter's LAMeditation.com
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[Macguru]

>I don't like hyphens in URL's. It is more difficult to verbalize.

Since 60 to 70% of new traffic will come from SE. I believe someone spoiling a keyword in URL does not make the most profitable decision.

If your web site promotion strategy is based on screaming your URL on sidewalks, then you could go for something easy to verbalise. :)

[rcjordan]

Speaking from the "owns hyphen" perspective, I know what a pain it can be, even if 100% of your traffic comes from the SEs. If we're talking hyphens (yet again), get both.

Assuming OMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm.com is taken, I like Hunter's LA variations best.

[Macguru]

Just noticed Google considers "LA" as a stop word. :(

[Mike_Mackin]

>If we're talking hyphens (yet again), get both.

YUP

[GoTo toll]
30900  meditation
3456  transcendental meditation
1722  meditation technique

[Macguru]

Toolman started a good tread about the selection of domain names.

[webmasterworld.com...]

The hyphen was debated in most details, it is worth the reading.

But just a question, can many domain names "pointing" at the same site lead to troubles?

[rcjordan]

>many pointing

I have several that I do that way, no problems that I know of if you set it up that way from the start and only submit one.

Indications are that in some instances it may not cause problems even if they are spidered as "dual" domains. I have one site with hyphen that was grandfathered in everywhere. I later acquired the domain without hyphens. Because the new acquisition was THE keyword phrase, I pointed the "without" to the old hyphenated domain, and rewrote my internal links to the new UNhypenated domain. Third parties have now linked to the new domain as well. The result: in several of the major engines both still come in at top slots. It looks very spammy, but there's nothing much that can be done.

[fonzerelli 79]

I agree with macguru,

you should go with meditation-losangeles.com

[Ove]

meditation-losangeles.com
would be the best one i think
you got two strong kw´s in the url and its very important you will get much for free then if you look at the top results you will see most of them have kw´s in the url and you can mix with subdomains too

/Ove