Want to know what to look for when choosing a
domain? Have you considered the following?
Read on to find out the tips of what to look for in this article by
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How to pick a
domain
By: Mikael Rieck
If you are reading this you might be
close to setting up your first website ever or you can be a person with
experience that is just curious to see if there are things that you might have
missed. Whatever the case is I hope to be able to provide you with a few of the
things that I personally feel are important when you are picking the right
domain name for your new site.
I assume that you have already found the topic that you are going to be
focusing on and therefore I will not go into any of the things that relates on
how to find a profitable market online. The reason I say this is that I assume
that you new site will somehow have a business related theme as a personal
website with pictures of your family and stuff doesn't need much consideration
when choosing the domain name.
So let us get into the things that I strongly feel you would have great benefit
from.
It is a know fact that more and more traffic (aka visitors to your site) comes
from the search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN (which has now launched
their new site called Live). So with this fact in mind you will need to find
out how to get the best possible placement in the search engines so that people
will come visit your site.
Most online marketers agree that from a SEO point of you the right keyword rich
domain name can help your site rank better that if you are not using a keyword
rich domain name. You might say that site like Nike.com, Amazon.com and
Ebay.com doesn't have keyword rich names and you are absolutely right.
However the difference between you and the great site is that they have much
larger advertising budget than you have and therefore they can get away with
having names that doesn't make much sense. So if you are on a small budget I
suggest that you go for the keyword rich domain name approach.
Choosing a keyword rich domain name does not mean that you will have to end up
with a name that nobody will ever remember. That can be the case but it doesn't
have to be. Let us say that you are going to create a site that deals with
pets. Maybe you want to sell pet toys and other accessories.
What I would do is to go to the site called:
http://www.wordtracker.com/free-trial.html and sign up for the free trial. Once
you have received the e-mail from WordTracker you would enter "pets"
in the field.
You'll see that the word "pet supplies" has a count of 2,000-2,500
visitors in a 90 day period. If you had paid for the full version of
WordTracker (I strongly recommend that you do) you would have found that for
the keyword phrase "pet toys and supplies" and that 145 people are
searching for that particular phrase every day and that there are only 857
sites competing for that exact phrase.
Now that is great information and you can now use it for finding a domain name
that will 1) Tell your visitors what it is that you do and 2) hold some really
great keywords that you will want to target to rank in the search engines.
If you go to the site called: http://idenion.dk/tools/multidomaincheck.aspx
you'll be able to enter domain names in the box and test whether they are
available. I have just tested the domains pettoysandsupplies.com and
pet-toys-and-supplies.com and both of them are available. That is great news as
the domains names will help you some of the way to get the high rankings that
you want.
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