How do I determine if my new startup domain is going to be an SEO nightmare?
I've come up with a good name for an online service startup that has .com .net and .org domain available, and is also available on most social networks that we care about.
The bad news is that when I Google this startup name, I get over 20 million hits, most of them because the name is coincidentally popularly used as a column name in databases or because the name can be split into two words that commonly appear together (i.e. if the startup name were "Heydude", Google would match plenty of "hey, dude" occurrences)
I don't, however, see any hits that indicate anyone is doing business under this name anywhere, nor that anyone is even casually using it for any sort of project at all.
So, am I right to worry about choosing a startup name that generates so many millions of (admittedly weak) hits on Google? Am I setting myself up for a bad signal-to-noise situation going forward?
Or with a little bit of success and the fact that we hold the .com, should I count on the relevant stuff bubbling to the top so effectively that I can forget about all the cruft that Google finds right now?
tl;dr Google reports millions of weak hits of my new startup name--is that going to be a signal-to-noise problem that I'll regret? I do own the .com.
I've come up with a good name for an online service startup that has .com .net and .org domain available, and is also available on most social networks that we care about.
The bad news is that when I Google this startup name, I get over 20 million hits, most of them because the name is coincidentally popularly used as a column name in databases or because the name can be split into two words that commonly appear together (i.e. if the startup name were "Heydude", Google would match plenty of "hey, dude" occurrences)
I don't, however, see any hits that indicate anyone is doing business under this name anywhere, nor that anyone is even casually using it for any sort of project at all.
So, am I right to worry about choosing a startup name that generates so many millions of (admittedly weak) hits on Google? Am I setting myself up for a bad signal-to-noise situation going forward?
Or with a little bit of success and the fact that we hold the .com, should I count on the relevant stuff bubbling to the top so effectively that I can forget about all the cruft that Google finds right now?
tl;dr Google reports millions of weak hits of my new startup name--is that going to be a signal-to-noise problem that I'll regret? I do own the .com.
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