Thanks for your response,

the new domain name will be purchased and used exclusively for the German store. I will try to obtain both with and without the umlaut, but the first only if responsibly priced. 
(since the domain is just for ranking purposes)

I'm currently targeting Google Netherlands. Germany would be the expansion territory. It's a webshop that is going to offer it's products trough a separate German version of the dutch store.

could you please explain why it makes sense to purchase the schädlinge.de domain? (because it's registered by a domain farm and will probably be expensive)

I did find when searching for German terms with the umlaut, domains without them included score excellent (usually top 3.) This to me, would make sense since it was not always possible (even in Germany) to register domains with the umlaut included.

Hi Nakul,

thanks for your swift reply. I don't quite understand your reasoning. Let me first clairfy that since the buisiness expands to Germany, we are looking to target google.de

I did find google understands my intent but searching for schädlinge or schadlinge yield in different results. The domain name is supposed to give a boost in rankings for en exact match with the searched keyword.

Could you please further clarify?

Thanks

Hi,

My client wants to expand it's business to Germany and logically we need a domain name to match. We've found a great one and regsiterd several variants to it.

However I just found out that in Germany it is possible (while here it's not) to register a domain with an umlaut. My question is: will google assign more value to:

schädlinge.de than schadlinge.de when users search for schädlinge?

If yes, how large will the difference be? (I will use an umlaut in the title etc)

Kind regards,
Jason.