Descriptive domain vs business name domain
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I originally set up my domain as "overlandparkphotographer.com" and then have my "jpshots.com" pointing to it. What I recently discovered is that even though the pages of my I set Yost SEO Title to be "JPShots Senior Pictures | Wedding Photographer" When you search "overland park photographer" the snippet tile is just "overland park photographer" which sounds super sketchy.
I don't know if this is something to do with yost, or if my sneaky Domain isn't worth much, and I should simply use my regular jpshots.com domain as the primary. I know it works like a charm with yahoo, but I'm not sure how much the domain name factors google these days.
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Sounds like something left behind in your meta tags somewhere or possibly page headings (H1, H2 etc).
Out of preference I would utilise a shorter domain name.
Domain name will have a small impact, but it is very small, hardly detectable.
I would look at it from a branding perspective, JP Shots is much more brand friendly.
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