Sharing With You, My Internet Marketing Tips and Advice

The importance of having a good domain name is that if you want your website, product and services to be successful then having a good domain name should be top of your to do list.

The product or service that you are doing will have to be around your domain name in some way for instance if your website is about gardening and you have a name which is about fishing then you will have problems with traffic, so have your domain name on the same line as your site.

6 months old What you should look for when you are going to buy your domain name is to try and get one, which is over 6 months old, and you will be able to get a good check done on it.

Keyword rich The domain should be short and keyword rich in other words try not to get a long domain name that is hard to pronounce and not brandable.

Indexed in Google You will want to make sure that the domain name that you buy is not banned, blacklisted or sandboxed by Google. To find out about a name you might be interested in go to Google.com and enter the search term below. Site:http://domainname.com As long as the name shows up in the listings you will know it is indexed.

Page rank This is another very important part of your domain name as Google ranks a score to each page and it ranges from 0 to 10 (the higher the better).Ideally you should for a page rank 3 to make anything from your proposed site, but starting off with 1 and 2 is still not a bad start when you are just starting out.

Valid When you are buying a name you will have to make sure it is valid so double check the name and you could use the below tool.

http://valid rank.com

Traffic Any name that you go for you will want it to attract traffic and we all know how that is important to your business, I would also put it through the alexa ranking for your site and that way you will have a good double check.

Domain deals So where do we go to find domain names, I would look in Ebay just enter the search term "domain names" and click search. Now what I have found in the past is some people selling the domain names do not know the real worth of some names so you could pick up a bargain. So with what I have told you about domain names go now and get one.

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Many people wonder why you need a domain name at all. They are really a unique address to be able to find a web site anywhere in the world.

When you register a domain name a web site does not automatically appear by typing the domain name into the browser. You have to build a web page then upload the file using an ftp provider. This ftp provider should come with your hosting provider.

This is why you must always consider the hosting when you buy a domain because it is easier to host where the name is registered. The process of transferring a domain name to another place to be hosted will be discussed in a future article. It is just always the best practice to look for to highest uptime guarantee and very accessible customer support and buy domains at the same place. It is easier to manage everything with it centrally located.

When you choose hosting the account will be assigned a numeric address, called an IP address, this will be used for your web site. This is a series of numbers. Your domain and IP address will be stored in a database with all other domain names and IP addresses.

When visitors enter your domain into the browser, your domain name will work like an address forwarding service by forwarding visitors to the IP address where your web site is stored. Domain names are used instead of the actual IP addresses because most people would find it too difficult to use the long numeric IP address.

This is why when choosing good domain names to buy always try to pick something that is easy to remember and to spell. People do not always type the address into the browser when they are looking at someone’s website advertisement.

When you buy domains you can also do other things than just create a website. Many creative people will search for valuable domain names to buy and resell like property. Domains can be a very good investment.

You can place the domains you buy for sale and you can also park them while you wait for someone to make an offer. Parking the names you buy can also generate some income by the parked google ads people click on.

Another creative way to use the domain names you buy is to forward them to a domain you are using and funnel the existing traffic of the domain names you buy to your existing website. Many marketers use this strategy to pick up lots of traffic at a very reasonable price.

Always remember that when searching, choosing and registering domain names to buy no matter how you use the domain names, the reason they are used instead of an IP address is a domain name is easier to remember and use.

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If you have an idea for a new web site, but don’t know which domain to buy for it, here is some guidance on using some free tools which can help.

First, assessing the name. Experience has shown that using keywords in the domain name may help with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and gaining traffic.

This is not because the well-known search engines give any more weight to keywords which are in the domain name when ranking pages, but because users can see from the domain name itself, when it appears in the search engines listings, what your site is about. If they are interested in the subject, they will click through. In addition, since you are likely to use the same keywords in the title and descriptions of your site then you are doing some automatic and legitimate SEO.

We have one niche health site which undoubtedly gets extra traffic because it is very obvious from the domain name what the site is dedicated to; and we have only naturally acquired backlinks. The site is number 1 in Yahoo and number 2 in Google for a search on the three-word health term which makes up its domain name. Of course, for search terms with minor to average search volumes, this is still not that difficult.

We’ll assume that you accept that using keywords in a domain name may be helpful. How do you find domains which are still free, which use your keywords?

Actually, this is the wrong question. What you want to know is – what phrases are people using to find sites related to my keywords? In other words, what are they actually searching for? Never assume you know this already.

This is where some free tools can help you. We use Keyword Discovery, which is a subscription service, but they also offer a non-expiring free trial, which you can use to do your keyword research for your new domains. If you are a serious internet marketer, you may find you come to rely on it for other marketing purposes. In online marketing, good information equals good money for you.

Actually using Keyword Discovery is probably easier that describing it, but essentially you can use its searches to find out the phrases people are typing in to various engines which are related to your target keyword, and to drill down into particular phrases (or ‘queries’ as it calls them). You can then see the actual number of searches each phrase is getting. Obviously, you want to ‘target’ a new domain by finding a two or three word phrase for it which is getting good search volume.

Once you have made a list of likely phrases, and written them down, then you can use other free search tools to check if a .com domain name version is still free. You can do this crudely, by simply typing a likely name into the address field of a browser, and checking if the domain exists as a web site already; or you can go to a domain name registrar like Godaddy and use their search tool. If the domain is still free, you can buy it right away.

We think you’ll agree that this two-step system is a better method than simply guessing on a good domain name to use.

Dee Buteland writes about domain names and how to make money from them. To read more about the free tools mentioned here and to use them go to this page – free domain research.

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