Ideas for website name
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MK4 Slowride

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10,028 posts

238 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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It'll be providing warranty for vehicles of all description.

It can't be one that's already taken online.

Respect points to the winner.

roboxm3

2,485 posts

225 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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What's the company name??

johnfm

13,751 posts

280 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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how about

www.chocolateteapot.com


Aptly describes most vehicle warranties that I have come across.

HTH

_Batty_

12,268 posts

280 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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Securicar?

Rox

324 posts

225 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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johnfm said:
how about

www.chocolateteapot.com


Aptly describes most vehicle warranties that I have come across.

HTH
AHAHAHAHH!!!!

camgear

6,941 posts

224 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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GingerNinja

3,990 posts

288 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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Web-Warranties.com is free.


fatboy b

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246 months

elster

17,517 posts

240 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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hill79

215 posts

219 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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knowing the company name would help, since it makes the most sense to use the company name as the domain name (assuming its not already taken). General rules of thumb...

  • keep it simple, no acronyms (warrantyLOLROFLLAMO.co.uk isnt all that easy to remember)
  • stick to .com and your countries TLD (.co.uk I would assume). Anything else is a waste of money.
  • company name is the best, if you can get it
  • try to avoid localisation (warrantylondon.co.uk etc)
  • hypens are ok if you really have to, but people never remember they're there and end up on the wrong site if someone has the non-hyphenated version
Hope that helps, let us know the company name and I'm sure you'll get some more specific ideas

L100NYY

36,797 posts

273 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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roboxm3 said:
What's the company name??
+1

Mc Lovin

5,588 posts

251 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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Warranties-for-my-mayder-alrighter.com

Crusoe

4,124 posts

261 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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lots already registered or for sale.

what about some of these or similar

www.totalwarranty.co.uk
www.repairprotection.com (or .co.uk)
www.maintenanceprotected.com (or .co.uk)
www.carshield.co.uk
www.carwarrantyextend.co.uk
www.carfixcover.com (or co.uk)

MK4 Slowride

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10,028 posts

238 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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It's not going to be directly related to an existing company so I don't think that will play too much part here.

Business is slow and there's a whole load of enquries online made every month that I need as we're being missed out.

hill79

215 posts

219 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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MK4 Slowride said:
It's not going to be directly related to an existing company so I don't think that will play too much part here.

Business is slow and there's a whole load of enquires online made every month that I need as we're being missed out.
If you're going to be relying on search engines for a lot of your traffic, give yourself a head start and use terms people will be searching for in the domain name, it gives you a fair wedge of relevancy 'points' with Google. something like 'vehiclewarranties.co.uk' would be good, but it appears to be registered and 'for sale' at the moment, in my experience you'll be quoted a four figure number to buy the domain from the 'prospectors'.

If search engines are your only traffic source, you're going to need some serious search engine optimisation and/or a pay per click campaign which I would expect to be pricey given the competition in the market - that's a whole other discussion though.

Edited by hill79 on Tuesday 14th October 12:19

MK4 Slowride

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Tuesday 14th October 2008
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Good points raised. I want to avoid pay per click as there are 400,000 warranty hits in the UK alone every month so I'd need NASA to calculate my bill.

hill79

215 posts

219 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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MK4 Slowride said:
Good points raised. I want to avoid pay per click as there are 400,000 warranty hits in the UK alone every month so I'd need NASA to calculate my bill.
You pay up front and your ad is only shown until your cash runs out, so if you stick a daily limit of £100 on the advert and a click costs you £1, you obviously get 100 clicks before the advert is withdrawn for the day. If you get 2 or 3 qualified leads which convert from those 100 clicks its probably been money well spent. I'm not sure how much a 'click' would be for your keywords but if there is high volume and lots of competition I'd expect £100 to go very quickly! Sadly getting ahead in the search engines when you're in a competitive market is an expensive game. If you're not going for PPC and just going for Organic results you're looking at at least a month before you're in a respectable position within the google results, and much longer before you make 1st page, assuming your page is well optimised. I'm not trying to be the harbinger of doom here, but IME people put too much faith in simply being found on google without spending money on it.

hth

MK4 Slowride

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Tuesday 14th October 2008
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I want to avoid time wasters just after a price without reading what cover they'll get. People will go for the cheapest because it's cheap and this might not be best for their car.

Scott328i

18,296 posts

231 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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careforyourcar.com

carwarrantyonline.com

vehicleprotection.com

On a serious note I could take care of your PPC stuff - I seem to be a dab hand cutting company costs by around 67% (online advertising)

On a less serious note

Sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuride

MK4 Slowride

Original Poster:

10,028 posts

238 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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Scott328i said:
careforyourcar.com

carwarrantyonline.com

vehicleprotection.com

On a serious note I could take care of your PPC stuff - I seem to be a dab hand cutting company costs by around 67% (online advertising)

On a less serious note

Sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuride
hehe

I knew I could rely on you Scottitch.