url/domain names: if i heard of a photographer named william wallace and went to google, which url will likely to come up first--wmwallacephotos.com or wmwallace.photos?

wm.here. Loc: born in Ohio, stuck in SWFlorida

if i heard of a photographer named william wallace and went to google, which url will likely to come up first--wmwallacephotos.com or wmwallace.photos?

RichardSM Loc: Back in Texas

Give it a try and see!

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

wm.here. wrote:

if i heard of a photographer named william wallace and went to google, which url will likely to come up first--wmwallacephotos.com or wmwallace.photos?

I'm not sure this even pertains to Photography Discussion.

sloscheider Loc: Minnesota

If you're wondering which one to buy, buy them both and point one of them to the one you like best. Else someone else will buy the other one and potentially put up something offensive in the hopes you'll buy it from them at a much higher price to get rid of it.

If you're concerned with what will come up first in Google the answer is the one that pays google to be placed first. After that you start delving into analytics and keywords. Google SEO or Search Engine Optimization and you'll find tons of stuff. If you use Wordpress for your site there are plugins that will help you with SEO, and I'm sure there are plugins for other platforms as well.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

RichardSM wrote:

Give it a try and see!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

sloscheider wrote:

If you're wondering which one to buy, buy them bo... (show quote)

Funny, three words for my site and I'm listed first,
and I don't pay anyone. But I guess that can change.

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

Who was typing the question for you? try asking them.

wm.here. Loc: born in Ohio, stuck in SWFlorida

Thanks to all for the varied responses, I might add my previous website was a combo of work related Sign site surveys, and my photography. I've since shut down the site, now I want a basic photography site to show my hobby of 50 years and possibly go to selling my work, hence my question to the "Photography Discussion" portion of this forum for the best domain title with: .com or .photos, to get to the top of Google.
Bill H., enjoyed your site, our view on what the eye "see" are similar.
Wm.

wm.here. Loc: born in Ohio, stuck in SWFlorida

G Brown wrote:

Who was typing the question for you? try asking them.

Thanks for your reply, I am William Warner Wallace, asking the question because I'm trying to find a simple domain name, for myself, by typing in William Wallace Photography on Google, the first or second responses are most always the Sir William Wallace photos of his life, or a William Thomas Wallace, also a photographer.
No mention of my inquiry, not even close, so I thought I'd try the Hedgehog group.
Thanks,
Wm.

sloscheider Loc: Minnesota

Longshadow wrote:

Funny, three words for my site and I'm listed first,
and I don't pay anyone. But I guess that can change.

Absolutely! If your key words aren't hot items it's way more fair. I worked with a guy who managed hundreds of sites for outdoor guides and outfitters around the US. He paid for elevated access to Googles search services and he could select a geographic area, like norther Minnesota, or Boundary Waters Canoe Area, and Google would provide him with the words most searched for related to that region. Then he would build his customers sites with those words in mind. His customers could also pay a little bit more the have priority placement when various words were searched for. It was amazing how well he could target site placement in highly contested regions.

sloscheider Loc: Minnesota

wm.here. wrote:

Thanks for your reply, I am William Warner Wallace, asking the question because I'm trying to find a simple domain name, for myself, by typing in William Wallace Photography on Google, the first or second responses are most always the Sir William Wallace photos of his life, or a William Thomas Wallace, also a photographer.
No mention of my inquiry, not even close, so I thought I'd try the Hedgehog group.
Thanks,
Wm.

Have you created and account and registered your domain with Google Analytics? That's a great first step and will give you some statistics about your site and related traffic.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

wm.here. wrote:

Thanks to all for the varied responses, I might ad... (show quote)

Thanks Bill!
The fact that there is another, possibly renown William Wallace doesn't help.
You can also consider a <dot>US since you are in the US. With mine, .com was used, .US wasn't.
Also, as obviously from my "ranking" (I lucked out), crawlers periodically go and look for key words in sites, you can add keywords to the main page like "William Wallace photography", photography", "William Wallace", etc. The search engines also look at how many times a phrase is used in a search. It does take time for a site to get "bumped up" by crawlers alone, if you can live with it..
Since I'm not in business, I wouldn't pay for SEO.
I think the .com is more professional than the .photos.

cascoly Loc: seattle

domain names dont really matter anymore - people find you thru google, so you need to score high on the words they use to search. unless an artist is well known, the artist's name isn't a likely search word

the .com vs .photos is similarly meaningless - people seaqrch for what they want to buy

jdub82 Loc: Northern California

wm.here. wrote:

if i heard of a photographer named william wallace and went to google, which url will likely to come up first--wmwallacephotos.com or wmwallace.photos?

You definitely want the word photos or photography in the first part of the URL. Photography, photos, etc in the URL, not the domain designation, is what will help you avoid having your site buried in results for Sir William Wallace. I would not recommend using the .photos domain. Make it a more generic domain designation, such as .net or .com, so the word photos will stand out in searches. By the way, I am a Wallace also. Some ancestry research a few years ago revealed I am a descendent of Sir William Wallace.

Jim Wallace

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jdub82 wrote:

You definitely want the word photos or photography in the first part of the URL. Photography, photos, etc in the URL, not the domain designation, .......

Jim Wallace

URL/Domain names are usually synonymous. The only way to get "photography" in a URL would be as a sub-domain (Photography.DomainName.TLD) or as a sub-directory in the domain (DomainName.TLD/Photography). Either way adds more typing.