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Why do these articles never mention the aftermarket? It's like businesses refuse to acknowledge that good domains are available to purchase. Sedo? Afternic? BuyDomains? Auctions? Personal portfolios? Wake up! This is where the real gems are. Domain finder tools are dead. They don't work.
I feel the blame is very much misplaced; Google had nothing to do with the viability of "Cadio" name. It was inevitable that people would confuse it with "Cardio", whether Google auto-suggested it or not. That said, I do sympathy for the difficulty in finding short, easily spelled domain names. It's been downright ridiculous trying to find good names in recent years.
When I read your name the first time I read "locality" and then I realized it was something different. You might run into yet another human centric reason for not liking your name.
When I read your name the first time I read "locality" and then I realized it was something different. You might run into yet another human centric reason for not liking your name.
Consider: Yahoo, Google, eBay, Amazon. None of these words had, when invented, any associations in the public mind. This allows those companies to grow and change their brands and their focus.
Imagine if Amazon had been called "Bookery". Or if Google were called "Searchio". Great names for what those companies started doing, completely misleading now -- especially in Amazon's case.
When I read your name the first time I read "locality" and then I realized it was something different. You might run into yet another human centric reason for not liking your name.
Try saying that 10 times fast, the ending in the last two syllables make it a bit of a tongue twister.
What about other possibilities that seem like often-occurring interpretations?
Low-Kate-{soft eh}-LEE
Low-CAT-{soft eh}-LY
I am doing SEO consulting for a company called South-Pak that makes custom travel and road cases. Obviously, the business owners don't want to change the name and obviously Google thinks it's a misspelling of South Park (if you query South-Pak, you must then click on the link to confirm that you are looking for results for South-Pak. Combatting the fact that many are searching for the name of the company and getting…
So many people forget about that one, it's really important. Of course all the rest is also important, but one of the major drivers of viral traffic is still people telling other people about your product, in person or on the telephone.
Also ask yourself: Can spell it out to somebdy over the phone without resorting to phonetic alphabet? Do you use numbers in the name - worse do you use them to be cute ? Do you mix words that sound like letters eg. "see" and "c" in the name ? Does the name contain a joke/pun/double meaning that only makes sense written down or read outloud?
I rest my case ;)
Good advice otherwise though, another one is make sure that the people in the major markets can pronounce the word in an unambiguous way.
One thing the author didn't mention was that when you're getting a lot of mispell traffic, it plays havoc with your traffic stats, and it gets very hard to move the needle testing different content because you might have 60-70% of your traffic in the early days boucing immediately.
When I read your name the first time I read "locality" and then I realized it was something different. You might run into yet another human centric reason for not liking your name.
I agree, also on the pronunciation front, I am assuming: Low-kate-LEE Try saying that 10 times fast, the ending in the last two syllables make it a bit of a tongue twister. What about other possibilities that seem like often-occurring interpretations? Low-Kate-{soft eh}-LEE Low-CAT-{soft eh}-LY