Forum or Forums?

[Kim]

Doing some research into what would be best to use, I own both. Which do you think is better?

####forums.com or ####forum.com

Do either of them appear more professional?

More friendly?

More obviously what people would type?

 

[Forsaken]

Doing some research into what would be best to use, I own both. Which do you think is better?

####forums.com or ####forum.com

Do either of them appear more professional?

More friendly?

More obviously what people would type?

If it's the forum I think either way would work because they would both make sense.

 

[Kim]

If it's the forum I think either way would work because they would both make sense.

I know.. that's the problem though LOL I can't decide which to use as the dominant domain

 

[iTuN3r]

Forums.com all the way and yes Way to go those are premium Domains.

 

[14DH01]

the domain must be as short as possible.
So yes, without the "S" with the addition of keywords in the domain increases referencing
Look at my domain

 

[Fufu]

Community/Hub is the new word for Forum/Forums.

 

[Kim]

Forums.com all the way and yes Way to go those are premium Domains.

I don't own those literal domains ###forum.com

I was just using that as an example

 

[erich37]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/i-own-forum-com-and-forums-com-what-should-i-do.30549/

 

[0ptima]

get both and redirect one to the other.

 

[Kim]

get both and redirect one to the other.

I have both.

I was hoping to get some input into which is best as the primary domain.

 

[erich37]

your main domain should be the one without the "s" , because you run a Forum-website which might contain several Forums and Sub-Forums.

Same as here:
http://www.dnforum.com

 

[Kim]

you main domain should be the one without the "s" , because you run a Forum-website which might contain several Forums and Sub-Forums.

Same as here:
http://www.dnforum.com

Thanks Erich.

 

[Crayo]

"forum" is the preferred one, but the difference is quite minimal. If you have "forums" you will most likely still rank first for when they search "xxforum" as well. But the smaller the domain, the better, and that is the only difference I can think of.

 

[Lost]

I voted for forum because it's shorter and sounds better to me.

 

[Adam Howard]

All the above

I use the default forums because in the beginning of forums, that is how most everyone used it. And for sometime (no longer) that is how SEO would rate things better for forum software.

(Actually in the beginning of forum software, people used the word "board" or "boards", but forums stuck)

I use all the above

/forum/
forums/
/community/
/board/
/boards/

Will all direct you to http://www.sociallyuncensored.eu/forums

 

[SneakyDave]

Google will LOVE that.

 

[Ingenious]

I think you need to make it sound grammatically correct as the main thing. It's difficult to know without any context, but cake-forum sounds better than cake-forums (as an example) because it's a forum, for cake discussion. Plural forums suggests more than one forum, which is great, if that's actually the case.

 

[Forsaken]

So much misinformation...

Forum and Forums would be treated the same by Google and it is only a matter of preference and as Ingenious said grammatical correctness.

 

[Cal]

Forums was always my personal preference but I find both to be suitable. I've used community as well but I don't think it's as good as the previous two.

 

[Carlos]

I choose "Forums" for the same reason outlined in the link by erich...

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/i-own-forum-com-and-forums-com-what-should-i-do.30549/

And I stand by what I said.