Got roasted for using a domain with hyphens and numbers, now I can't unsee it

I put up a site about vintage lawnmower repair back in March. Pretty niche stuff, I thought it was cool. Showed it to a guy who runs a few sites in the same space and he said 'bro, that URL looks like spam from 2005'. He was right. It had like 3 hyphens and a '2024' slapped on the end. I argued at first that it was unique and easy to type. But he pointed out it screams junk and nobody clicks on it. I changed it to something clean last week. Still not sure if I overcorrected or if he had a point. What's your take on this? Do weird URLs actually matter for small hobby sites or is it just a snob thing?

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grayt4617d ago

That "screams junk" thing hits hard. A buddy of mine had a site about old fishing lures with "tackle-box-zone-4u.net" and wondered why nobody visited. He changed it to something simple and traffic actually went up a little, even though the content was the same.

the_miles17d ago

Get rid of the numbers and hyphens in your domain name. It screams spam filter bait and makes people feel like they're clicking on a popup ad.