By Henriette Martel
As prices have never been so low, you may consider buying multiple domain names as a cost-effective option to drive more traffic to your website.
When it comes to choosing a domain name, there are two schools of thought. You can either elect to register a domain name based on
1- a new or existing brand name e.g. business name, trademark, product brand name or
2- one or more keywords that you perceive will help your target market to find you.
Both methods have their pro's and con's.
(For this article, to avoid filter penalties, my domain name examples will start with a Capital letter and end with /.)
Domain name based on BRAND
The web is populated with unusual and recognised domain names e.g. Google/, Amazon/ and Yahoo/. Naming your domain using a new or existing brand name can be a powerful and rewarding long-term strategy. Developing a brand name from anonymity to stardom is any marketer's goal.
Pro's
A branded domain name may
- Attract attention for its originality and for being catchy e.g. Yahoo/ or Dogpile/.
- Stand out from competition e.g. compare Google/ with Searchengine/, Searchengines/ and Bestsearchengine/. Which one stands out? Sorry, no price for this easy answer.
- Facilitate direct search. Repeat visitors can guess your name and type it in the address bar or location field and find you directly, bypassing competitors.
- Encourage brand recognition. Each time people are exposed to your domain name, it reinforces your brand.
- Increase credibility and loyalty. In general, people prefer to be associated with a brand name rather than a generic name. If price is not a consideration, wouldn't you prefer buying Chanel branded sunglasses from Chanel/, Eyesave/ or Sunglassesportal/?
- Promote viral marketing. It is easier to refer someone to a domain name that you can remember and spell without difficulty.
- Provide flexibility. Your domain name can be used on business cards and offline promotions.
- Protect your intellectual property. Get in first before someone names their domain with your product brand, business name or title of your book.
Con's (for new brands only)
A domain name using an established brand name may not encounter the problems below. A domain name based on a new brand may:
- Be difficult to choose. Selecting a name to convey instantly business core values and benefits of website is a very difficult task.
- Need time, money and effort to break through the online noise and be recognised.
- Necessitate a strong unique selling proposition.
- Require an arsenal of internet marketing tactics e.g. linkage strategies and search engine optimisation to improve the search engine ranking.
Domain name based on KEYWORDS
Keywords are the words that web users enter in the search box of the search engine to retrieve information on a specific subject.
The current trend is for web searchers to enter a string of keywords or keyword phrase rather than single keywords e.g. a person may look for 'free family tree', 'decision tree software', 'artificial Christmas tree' instead of 'tree. This practice provides less search engine results but of better quality. Similarly, website owners are creating generic domain names made of a string of keywords to reach their target audience e.g. Paylesscarrental/, Collectorcartraderonline/ and Carbuyingtips/.
Pro's
On one hand, generic keywords domain names may:
- Generate instant results with drive-in traffic from search engines.
- Attract qualified prospects looking for your keywords.
- Communicate and position instantly your site's benefits and core values e.g. Justfreestuff/, Best-home-mortagage-loan/, Indoorgardensupplies/.
- Improve search engine ranking. (The use of keywords in the domain name is a strategy which you cannot rely on to increase your search engine ranking: it is only a very small part of search engine optimisation.)
Con's
On the other hand, generic keywords domain names may:
- Be perceived as boring, lacking in imagination and sometimes dubious.
- Require more effort to remember. This could lead to domain names being misspelled e.g. Barnesandnoble/ or Barneandnobles/ or placed in the wrong sequence e.g. Homefinancialservices/ or Financialhomeservices/. These common mistakes have prompted shrewd business people to piggy back on popular websites e.g. Ezinearticle/ benefits from spelling mistakes of customers from EzineArticles/.
- Restrict the usage of the domain name. A long string of keywords does not look good on offline promotional material.
- Be wasted if you don't choose your keywords carefully. It is important to research the words used by your customers and not rely on your assumptions. Jeff, a Printer, had optimised his site for 'self-publishing' only to find that self-publishers were searching for printers using keyword 'printing'.
The best of both worlds: consider complementary domain name strategies:
1. Create a short, easy to remember brand name using keywords e.g. Diabeticgourmet/, Netdoctor/ or Houseweb/.
2. Purchase a few domain names made up of keywords and have them pointing to a main branded domain name. This strategy requires you to buy an URL forwarding option when you purchase your domain name. A word of caution: if you overuse this tactic, Google may respond negatively to these 'sneaky redirects'.
Henriette Martel is a website strategist, author of 200 Marketing Ideas for Your Website and director of the Australian Training Guide Australia's A to Z Training Database and Resources for Speakers, Trainers & Coaches.
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Finding Domain Keywords for SEO Affiliate Marketing
Domain Names With Keywords: The Key to Search Engine Ranking
By Rajiv Sahadevan
Have you ever considered buying a domain like a2z.com for your pet shop business? I bet you wouldn’t no matter how good the domain looks. It’s very important that your keyword exists in the domain name. For a pet shop the best name I could think of is petshop.com itself and variations of the same. Something like petshopuk.com dogpetshop.com or even something like meyerspetshop.com is a great domain. Always buy a domain with keywords in it. It’s more often sold faster than a domain like TNGKH.com which would probably sell but not for more than $500 odd.
Taking up an example would prove it well…
golfclubreview.com $55,350.00
Golf club by itself is keyword which is highly competitive. But there were other great features on this site to add up to its value. If you have a domain name like golfclubuk.com or golfclub.us you can bet on the moon that it would sell for at least a $10,000-$20,000, EVEN if the domain name is BRAND NEW. Don’t try buying these domains as the owners will probably not think of selling this domain. Keep one thing in mind before buying a domain for reselling. Would you buy it if you were on the Buyers side? If you answered yes then you have a domain worth a buy. If you are thinking of a domain name to just sell it, it’s not going to work. Always buy a domain to use it. If you are thinking of only selling it, you have a domain which is not worth a buy. Good luck with your domain buying and selling.
For more information we would recommend reading more of our articles here and also visiting our website at netbusinessreview.com
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Have you ever considered buying a domain like a2z.com for your pet shop business? I bet you wouldn’t no matter how good the domain looks. It’s very important that your keyword exists in the domain name. For a pet shop the best name I could think of is petshop.com itself and variations of the same. Something like petshopuk.com dogpetshop.com or even something like meyerspetshop.com is a great domain. Always buy a domain with keywords in it. It’s more often sold faster than a domain like TNGKH.com which would probably sell but not for more than $500 odd.
Taking up an example would prove it well…
golfclubreview.com $55,350.00
Golf club by itself is keyword which is highly competitive. But there were other great features on this site to add up to its value. If you have a domain name like golfclubuk.com or golfclub.us you can bet on the moon that it would sell for at least a $10,000-$20,000, EVEN if the domain name is BRAND NEW. Don’t try buying these domains as the owners will probably not think of selling this domain. Keep one thing in mind before buying a domain for reselling. Would you buy it if you were on the Buyers side? If you answered yes then you have a domain worth a buy. If you are thinking of a domain name to just sell it, it’s not going to work. Always buy a domain to use it. If you are thinking of only selling it, you have a domain which is not worth a buy. Good luck with your domain buying and selling.
For more information we would recommend reading more of our articles here and also visiting our website at netbusinessreview.com
For more information on SEO London and Internet Marketing, visit our website powerscribe.com. The information provided above is compiled based on the Trends in Web site design India and is promoted for Domain Name Registration UK
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How to Pick the Perfect Domain Name for Your Website
By Nathalie Fiset
Today, it's a known fact that a web site without SEO doesn't stand a chance against other SEO-friendly sites. There are a lot of possibilities that it might not be indexed by different search engines. As a result, this site has poor ranking among search engines and therefore poor in conversion rate. This situation may have happened to you or might happen in the future. Though it seems it's certainly not a big issue which needs mending immediately, especially if you are still new to web site developing, there are just some important things you must learn and things you should avoid doing.
What makes a domain name perfect?
Choosing a domain name is considered to be the major factor when aiming for a good web page ranking. So what really makes a perfect domain name? Aside from being brandable and SEO-friendly, it must have these qualities too:
• Moderately short. By keeping away from having a long domain name, it will help the users stumble on your website
• Easy to remember. A domain name must be descriptive to help users memorize it with ease.
• Simple to spell.
One of the most generally used aspect when selecting the domain name is the use of keyword in a URL. You can get the idea of opting for a domain name that has little rivalry but with a high demand and it will eventually help in making your site SEO-friendly.
Make your domain keyword-rich and unique
Your domain name must contain a word which generally summarizes your website. With keywords, emphasize on putting an effective keyword on your domain name to lead users to your site. The usage of three or more keywords can put a harmful impact, as it can make the domain name longer and there is the chance of misspelling when the user types in your domain name. Subsequently, it would be better to use two keywords at most. A further downside is that it lengthens your email address too. Thus, it is suggested that you use catchy and shorter domain names.
Separate your keywords to make your domain name more effective and attractive
An additional vital factor to bear in mind in naming a domain is the use of a hyphen if your domain name contains more than one keyword. For example, if you have two, three or more keywords, without something that separates them, the search engine may perhaps regard as it as a single keyword. With that, it is recommended to use a hyphen or hyphens to break up the keywords. However, for the users, a domain name lacking a hyphen is far easier to recall and those with hyphens have a tendency to confuse the users. But don't get disappointed yet, there is a solution to this problem. You may:
• Do make use of a hyphened domain name at the stage of registering with a search engine and during online advertising.
• At the same time, use a domain name which lacks a hyphen to help the users who have a preference for typing keywords during their searches.
Focus on making your domain name SEO-friendly
Making your web pages at the top of any search engines comes down to making your website SEO-friendly. This is essentially a method of what search engines use to search for websites when a user types in a keyword. Naturally, the websites which play this game precisely will discover themselves on the first few pages of any search engines for their specified keyword.
A key factor of SEO is links to the other websites. The definite phrasing or wording you may use in the link that shows on other websites is known as the "anchor text". You get to choose your own anchor text to make it as interesting as possible to attract users into visiting your site while they are on other websites.
Considering all these aspects, it will certainly help your choice of brandable and SEO-friendly domain name for your very own website. Furthermore, you may register several alternates for your website but paying for a single domain name. Also, it is best to avoid using numbers in your domain name to prevent confusion.
For more information on internet marketing for beginners please visit:
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Today, it's a known fact that a web site without SEO doesn't stand a chance against other SEO-friendly sites. There are a lot of possibilities that it might not be indexed by different search engines. As a result, this site has poor ranking among search engines and therefore poor in conversion rate. This situation may have happened to you or might happen in the future. Though it seems it's certainly not a big issue which needs mending immediately, especially if you are still new to web site developing, there are just some important things you must learn and things you should avoid doing.
What makes a domain name perfect?
Choosing a domain name is considered to be the major factor when aiming for a good web page ranking. So what really makes a perfect domain name? Aside from being brandable and SEO-friendly, it must have these qualities too:
• Moderately short. By keeping away from having a long domain name, it will help the users stumble on your website
• Easy to remember. A domain name must be descriptive to help users memorize it with ease.
• Simple to spell.
One of the most generally used aspect when selecting the domain name is the use of keyword in a URL. You can get the idea of opting for a domain name that has little rivalry but with a high demand and it will eventually help in making your site SEO-friendly.
Make your domain keyword-rich and unique
Your domain name must contain a word which generally summarizes your website. With keywords, emphasize on putting an effective keyword on your domain name to lead users to your site. The usage of three or more keywords can put a harmful impact, as it can make the domain name longer and there is the chance of misspelling when the user types in your domain name. Subsequently, it would be better to use two keywords at most. A further downside is that it lengthens your email address too. Thus, it is suggested that you use catchy and shorter domain names.
Separate your keywords to make your domain name more effective and attractive
An additional vital factor to bear in mind in naming a domain is the use of a hyphen if your domain name contains more than one keyword. For example, if you have two, three or more keywords, without something that separates them, the search engine may perhaps regard as it as a single keyword. With that, it is recommended to use a hyphen or hyphens to break up the keywords. However, for the users, a domain name lacking a hyphen is far easier to recall and those with hyphens have a tendency to confuse the users. But don't get disappointed yet, there is a solution to this problem. You may:
• Do make use of a hyphened domain name at the stage of registering with a search engine and during online advertising.
• At the same time, use a domain name which lacks a hyphen to help the users who have a preference for typing keywords during their searches.
Focus on making your domain name SEO-friendly
Making your web pages at the top of any search engines comes down to making your website SEO-friendly. This is essentially a method of what search engines use to search for websites when a user types in a keyword. Naturally, the websites which play this game precisely will discover themselves on the first few pages of any search engines for their specified keyword.
A key factor of SEO is links to the other websites. The definite phrasing or wording you may use in the link that shows on other websites is known as the "anchor text". You get to choose your own anchor text to make it as interesting as possible to attract users into visiting your site while they are on other websites.
Considering all these aspects, it will certainly help your choice of brandable and SEO-friendly domain name for your very own website. Furthermore, you may register several alternates for your website but paying for a single domain name. Also, it is best to avoid using numbers in your domain name to prevent confusion.
For more information on internet marketing for beginners please visit:
http://www.thebiginternetmarketinggame.com/domainnames.html
http://www.thebiginternetmarketinggame.com
http://www.drnathaliefiset.com
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How Do I Choose a Domain Name For My Internet Business?
By Darrell Howell
Because domain names are products that carry a certain market value, trading in domain names has become a serious business in its own right. People buy and sell domain names on domain auction sites and prices vary from very cheap to astronomically expensive, depending on the perceived brand or keyword value of the name.
However, if you can choose a domain for your website that has never been used before you will be able to register it for less than $20 without having to buy it at all.
How To Choose A Domain Name
There are two approaches to choosing a suitable domain for your website: (1) Branding, and (2) keywords.
1. Branding - Use your own name or company name as the domain name of your website.
If you want to raise the profile of your company and turn it into brand in its own right, using it as your domain name is a great idea.
Take a company like Amazon.com for example. There is nothing in the domain name amazon.com to suggest that Amazon sells books, yet when you hear the name Amazon you will probably think either of a big river in South America, or a big bookstore on the Internet, and in many cases it will be the latter that is thought of first!
That is the power of brand names.
Some people choose to turn their own name into a brand name. Entrepreneurs, politicians, artists will often secure their own name as their brand name. The most famous recent example of this is now living in the White House. You can check out his website at barackobama.com.
So, branding yourself via your domain name can be a very smart move.
However, if you are just starting out, you might want to consider using relevant keywords in your domain name to raise the profile of your website. This is an excellent idea if you are promoting a well defined niche market.
2. Keywords - Choose a domain name that reflects the type of business you are in.
There are a couple of advantages to be had with a keyword rich domain. Firstly, it sends a clear message to anybody searching for the products you are selling that your website is the place to find them. Secondly, the keywords in your domain will help your website's search engine ranking for those particular words.
Choosing a Keyword Rich Domain Name
Make a list of keywords that are related to the main theme or chief content of your website. Aim to get a domain name with one or two of your keywords in it; a short domain name is better but you will probably need to use more than one keyword to find a domain name that is available.
The easiest way to work on your domain name is to use a free domain search website such as instantdomainsearch.com/ and type your ideas straight into the search browser to instantly discover whether or not they are available. If your first search is not successful, play around with the keywords and try to find a good combination that (a) makes some kind of sense, (b) is a fair reflection of what your business is about and (c) is available.
Also, if you are planning on starting a business site, make sure that you get the.com extension. Generally speaking, domains that end in .com are easier to remember and look more professional. However, if your business is focused on a single country then you might want to use .co.uk, co.jp, etc.
If your chosen domain name is not available and is one that you have set your heart upon, you may be able to buy it from the owner. As I mentioned, many people buy and sell domain names as a business. Be warned, though... A domain name with a couple of high ranking keywords in it is likely to be expensive. Whereas you can register an available domain name for a few dollars, you may have to spend several thousand dollars to secure a great domain name on the open market.
Darrell Howell is an Internet Marketer and Blogger. Check out his Blog at http://www.blueridgemoney.info Sign up for a free Internet Marketing Newsletter here.
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Because domain names are products that carry a certain market value, trading in domain names has become a serious business in its own right. People buy and sell domain names on domain auction sites and prices vary from very cheap to astronomically expensive, depending on the perceived brand or keyword value of the name.
However, if you can choose a domain for your website that has never been used before you will be able to register it for less than $20 without having to buy it at all.
How To Choose A Domain Name
There are two approaches to choosing a suitable domain for your website: (1) Branding, and (2) keywords.
1. Branding - Use your own name or company name as the domain name of your website.
If you want to raise the profile of your company and turn it into brand in its own right, using it as your domain name is a great idea.
Take a company like Amazon.com for example. There is nothing in the domain name amazon.com to suggest that Amazon sells books, yet when you hear the name Amazon you will probably think either of a big river in South America, or a big bookstore on the Internet, and in many cases it will be the latter that is thought of first!
That is the power of brand names.
Some people choose to turn their own name into a brand name. Entrepreneurs, politicians, artists will often secure their own name as their brand name. The most famous recent example of this is now living in the White House. You can check out his website at barackobama.com.
So, branding yourself via your domain name can be a very smart move.
However, if you are just starting out, you might want to consider using relevant keywords in your domain name to raise the profile of your website. This is an excellent idea if you are promoting a well defined niche market.
2. Keywords - Choose a domain name that reflects the type of business you are in.
There are a couple of advantages to be had with a keyword rich domain. Firstly, it sends a clear message to anybody searching for the products you are selling that your website is the place to find them. Secondly, the keywords in your domain will help your website's search engine ranking for those particular words.
Choosing a Keyword Rich Domain Name
Make a list of keywords that are related to the main theme or chief content of your website. Aim to get a domain name with one or two of your keywords in it; a short domain name is better but you will probably need to use more than one keyword to find a domain name that is available.
The easiest way to work on your domain name is to use a free domain search website such as instantdomainsearch.com/ and type your ideas straight into the search browser to instantly discover whether or not they are available. If your first search is not successful, play around with the keywords and try to find a good combination that (a) makes some kind of sense, (b) is a fair reflection of what your business is about and (c) is available.
Also, if you are planning on starting a business site, make sure that you get the.com extension. Generally speaking, domains that end in .com are easier to remember and look more professional. However, if your business is focused on a single country then you might want to use .co.uk, co.jp, etc.
If your chosen domain name is not available and is one that you have set your heart upon, you may be able to buy it from the owner. As I mentioned, many people buy and sell domain names as a business. Be warned, though... A domain name with a couple of high ranking keywords in it is likely to be expensive. Whereas you can register an available domain name for a few dollars, you may have to spend several thousand dollars to secure a great domain name on the open market.
Darrell Howell is an Internet Marketer and Blogger. Check out his Blog at http://www.blueridgemoney.info Sign up for a free Internet Marketing Newsletter here.
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How to Make Your Own Website Advice - Guide, Tips
By Mark P Andrews
How to make your own website for beginners. You would think in this day and age of computers and advances made with the internet that it would be relatively straightforward and easy to make your own website, yet, as you may have personally found, sometimes you can spend hours trawling the web trying to find the perfect tools for your requirements.
Perhaps you are one of these individuals who still does not know how to make your own website from scratch?
Perhaps you are confused, you've spent hours if not days trying to find the perfect website building tool for your needs and still not turned up anything?
Ideally, you want a tool where you can pick out a suitable template to use, fill in a few simple boxes, such as your website title, description, the various buttons and sub pages that you want to see used upon your website, add content and at the end you just want to click a button which automatically creates the whole website for you, in double quick time, making the entire process quite literally as painless as possible.
What's more, you don't want to use a sub domain name which isn't going to do your search engine optimization any good at all. What you do want is to be able to use your very own domain name and to effortlessly host your website on your own server.
Until now, such services online have always cost the earth, making it cost prohibitive for many people, especially in this economic downturn, when it is all important to keep your development costs as low as possible.
There are tools available though which can help you to achieve all of this and more, starting from just a few dollars, if you know where to find such services online. Now you really can find out for yourself how to make your own website, design it completely in just a few minutes, add content, upload it to your own server using your own domain name and voila, your website is launched, ready for business, ready to go.
No need is there anymore to search for days on end to find the perfect tool - how to make your own website, but there are other considerations that you want to take into account, to save you further hard earn't cash and a lot of time if you want to know how to make your own website.
First thing you'll need is a domain name and a generic keyword one at that. You don't want to be using a brandname is the point here. If you do go this route, that is, a brandname domain name, you could end up having to pay a high cost in terms of time spent and capital outlay.
To choose a generic domain, first you'll need to do some keyword research.
Let's get a couple of tabs open in your browser for starters.
First website you'll want to go to is the Google External Keyword Tool, just type that into your browser window as it is shown here, no need to put .com or anything else on the end, just write it as it is and the website, after you click on Enter, will show up automatically.
They'll be a small white box almost in the center of the screen. Put a word that describes your intended website in here, for example, if the website you have in mind is to be about 'scuba diving', you might put the words Scuba Diving alongside each other in that box. Next fill in the captcha code, then click on Get Keyword Ideas. Wait two seconds and the results will appear below.
The top result on this keyword list is likely to be Scuba Diving. Follow the data shown along on that line from left to right. You'll see a box first, you can ignore that, the next column is Approx Search Volume (Month), there you will see a figure which shows you the approximate number of times that people were looking for this keyword phrase at Google for the previous month, the next set of figures to the right of this will be the Average Monthly Search Number throughout the course of the year.
You want this figure typically to be over 500 searches per month, the higher the number, the better.
The next tab I want you to open in your browser is your domain registration company of choice, everyone has their favorite. In their search box I want you to type in the keyword/s to see if the domain name is available. In this example, I would tpye in ScubaDiving & Scuba-Diving with the dash, hyphen in the middle, separating the two words, this increases the chances of finding an available domain name to register. I would then tick the extensions that I want to search these domains under and my preference would be to tick first the .com followed by the .org and last but not least the .net - I'd forget about using any others unless your site is aimed at a particular geographical part of the world, then you might want to look under for example .ca (Canada) or .co.uk (UK) or .de (Germany) or .fr (France) or .es (Spain) etc etc.
If the domain is available under the .com the .org or the .net I would keep that page open for a few minutes.
Next tab to open would be the Google homepage. When it is open I would type into the search box the keyword/s, in this example, exactly like this: "Scuba Diving" and hit search. The results as you know will show up within a second or less normally. See the blue bar at the top of the page? Look to the right on that blue bar. It will tell you the number of competing websites that are targeting the keyword/s, if this number is less than 200,000 give or take, then go back to your domain registration company and register the domain for yourself. The minimum period of time you can register a domain name for is one year, costing $5-10.00 per year.
In the Google External Keyword Tool, if the top result is not available as a domain name, keep looking all the way down, looking for searches over 500 per month, then to Google Search to find out how many competing websites are targeting that keyword/s, then to your domain registration company to find out if the domain is available just as I've explained above.
After typically a few minutes you should have a natural keyword domain name which you can use for your brand new website, which will be excellent for your sites natural search engine optimization and traffic / visitor results.
Now, you go back to your website builder of choice and start building, creating your website using your keywords within the content to give you the best chance of ranking very highly for those keywords - this will send you a lot more natural hot traffic, people who are really interested in your product or service.
How to make your own website really can be very easy if you are armed first with some excellent advice, take these simple tips on board and there is no reason why you too, should not be reaping the benefits of your labor and hopefully seeing a good return on your time expended and money spent.
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How to make your own website for beginners. You would think in this day and age of computers and advances made with the internet that it would be relatively straightforward and easy to make your own website, yet, as you may have personally found, sometimes you can spend hours trawling the web trying to find the perfect tools for your requirements.
Perhaps you are one of these individuals who still does not know how to make your own website from scratch?
Perhaps you are confused, you've spent hours if not days trying to find the perfect website building tool for your needs and still not turned up anything?
Ideally, you want a tool where you can pick out a suitable template to use, fill in a few simple boxes, such as your website title, description, the various buttons and sub pages that you want to see used upon your website, add content and at the end you just want to click a button which automatically creates the whole website for you, in double quick time, making the entire process quite literally as painless as possible.
What's more, you don't want to use a sub domain name which isn't going to do your search engine optimization any good at all. What you do want is to be able to use your very own domain name and to effortlessly host your website on your own server.
Until now, such services online have always cost the earth, making it cost prohibitive for many people, especially in this economic downturn, when it is all important to keep your development costs as low as possible.
There are tools available though which can help you to achieve all of this and more, starting from just a few dollars, if you know where to find such services online. Now you really can find out for yourself how to make your own website, design it completely in just a few minutes, add content, upload it to your own server using your own domain name and voila, your website is launched, ready for business, ready to go.
No need is there anymore to search for days on end to find the perfect tool - how to make your own website, but there are other considerations that you want to take into account, to save you further hard earn't cash and a lot of time if you want to know how to make your own website.
First thing you'll need is a domain name and a generic keyword one at that. You don't want to be using a brandname is the point here. If you do go this route, that is, a brandname domain name, you could end up having to pay a high cost in terms of time spent and capital outlay.
To choose a generic domain, first you'll need to do some keyword research.
Let's get a couple of tabs open in your browser for starters.
First website you'll want to go to is the Google External Keyword Tool, just type that into your browser window as it is shown here, no need to put .com or anything else on the end, just write it as it is and the website, after you click on Enter, will show up automatically.
They'll be a small white box almost in the center of the screen. Put a word that describes your intended website in here, for example, if the website you have in mind is to be about 'scuba diving', you might put the words Scuba Diving alongside each other in that box. Next fill in the captcha code, then click on Get Keyword Ideas. Wait two seconds and the results will appear below.
The top result on this keyword list is likely to be Scuba Diving. Follow the data shown along on that line from left to right. You'll see a box first, you can ignore that, the next column is Approx Search Volume (Month), there you will see a figure which shows you the approximate number of times that people were looking for this keyword phrase at Google for the previous month, the next set of figures to the right of this will be the Average Monthly Search Number throughout the course of the year.
You want this figure typically to be over 500 searches per month, the higher the number, the better.
The next tab I want you to open in your browser is your domain registration company of choice, everyone has their favorite. In their search box I want you to type in the keyword/s to see if the domain name is available. In this example, I would tpye in ScubaDiving & Scuba-Diving with the dash, hyphen in the middle, separating the two words, this increases the chances of finding an available domain name to register. I would then tick the extensions that I want to search these domains under and my preference would be to tick first the .com followed by the .org and last but not least the .net - I'd forget about using any others unless your site is aimed at a particular geographical part of the world, then you might want to look under for example .ca (Canada) or .co.uk (UK) or .de (Germany) or .fr (France) or .es (Spain) etc etc.
If the domain is available under the .com the .org or the .net I would keep that page open for a few minutes.
Next tab to open would be the Google homepage. When it is open I would type into the search box the keyword/s, in this example, exactly like this: "Scuba Diving" and hit search. The results as you know will show up within a second or less normally. See the blue bar at the top of the page? Look to the right on that blue bar. It will tell you the number of competing websites that are targeting the keyword/s, if this number is less than 200,000 give or take, then go back to your domain registration company and register the domain for yourself. The minimum period of time you can register a domain name for is one year, costing $5-10.00 per year.
In the Google External Keyword Tool, if the top result is not available as a domain name, keep looking all the way down, looking for searches over 500 per month, then to Google Search to find out how many competing websites are targeting that keyword/s, then to your domain registration company to find out if the domain is available just as I've explained above.
After typically a few minutes you should have a natural keyword domain name which you can use for your brand new website, which will be excellent for your sites natural search engine optimization and traffic / visitor results.
Now, you go back to your website builder of choice and start building, creating your website using your keywords within the content to give you the best chance of ranking very highly for those keywords - this will send you a lot more natural hot traffic, people who are really interested in your product or service.
How to make your own website really can be very easy if you are armed first with some excellent advice, take these simple tips on board and there is no reason why you too, should not be reaping the benefits of your labor and hopefully seeing a good return on your time expended and money spent.
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We wish you the very best of luck learning exactly how to make your own website for beginners from this advice.
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Finding Good Expired Domain Names by Using Google Search Engine
By John Khu
Many newbie expired domain traders find it very hard to find an expired domain name of their choice. Due to their inexperience as well as lack of knowledge or skills in expired domain trading, they always end up in buying expired domains with relatively no commercial value. If you are interested in finding a good expired domain name, then you may wish to learn some basic secrets and tips related to the expired domain name trading business. Google is a well-known search engine that provides very good search results in matter of few seconds. Google is also a rich repository of web domains, both live and expired; if you know how to use this amazing utility, you can easily find a good and commercially available expired domain, capable of spinning more money than you wished for.
With the right type of knowledge, it should not be too difficult for you to find and detect very good expired domain names by using Google search engine. All you have to do is to use right type of keywords and search methods to create a list of expired domain names! Google houses more than 50 millions of web domains and most of these domains are alive, while a considerable numbers are dead and expired. If you know how Google spiders work in segregating the search results, you can easily cull out excellent expired domain names as well.
Most of the major search engines including Yahoo, Live, Google, Ask and host of others employ a method that seeks to weed out or eradicate those domains that are no longer alive, or those that are already expired and dead. However, hundreds of thousands of web domains expire everyday and these numbers seem to be too huge for any search engines to remove from the list. Thus, there is always a time lag of a week or so, before the expired domain names are removed from the directories.
However, there is still a gap of about five to six days before the entire list of expired domains disappear from the directory listings. Smart expired domain traders make it a point to buy expired domains, before they are deleted or removed from the search engine list. Once you buy listed expired domains and register them as soon as possible, you can have the liberty of accumulating very precious traffic and links owned and possessed by the previous owner.
However, you can conduct a search on the Google search engine by using a simple search query given as follows:
a) Just open the Google search engine bar
b) Type- "Auction Date" 01-07-2008 intitle: aaaaaaaaa site: whois.domaintools dotcom (here, aaaaa is the preferred keyword, while the date could be any date that you wish but it should preferably be about 15 days before today's date.
c) Choose any keyword you want and consult a keyword tracker web domain for better keywords.
d) Once you give a command for search, you can easily get a comprehensive list of expiring or expired domain names in the entire search engine directory.
Once you create list, you can sensitize it by using good domain software for short listing the best possible domain names. The list thus generated should provide you a basic idea of how your expired domain names look and appear.
John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is the owner of the path breaking web site called http://www.expireddomainsecret.com which provides complete and up-to-date information on expired domains and their eternal secrets.
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http://EzineArticles.com/?Finding-Good-Expired-Domain-Names-by-Using-Google-Search-Engine&id=1466437
Many newbie expired domain traders find it very hard to find an expired domain name of their choice. Due to their inexperience as well as lack of knowledge or skills in expired domain trading, they always end up in buying expired domains with relatively no commercial value. If you are interested in finding a good expired domain name, then you may wish to learn some basic secrets and tips related to the expired domain name trading business. Google is a well-known search engine that provides very good search results in matter of few seconds. Google is also a rich repository of web domains, both live and expired; if you know how to use this amazing utility, you can easily find a good and commercially available expired domain, capable of spinning more money than you wished for.
With the right type of knowledge, it should not be too difficult for you to find and detect very good expired domain names by using Google search engine. All you have to do is to use right type of keywords and search methods to create a list of expired domain names! Google houses more than 50 millions of web domains and most of these domains are alive, while a considerable numbers are dead and expired. If you know how Google spiders work in segregating the search results, you can easily cull out excellent expired domain names as well.
Most of the major search engines including Yahoo, Live, Google, Ask and host of others employ a method that seeks to weed out or eradicate those domains that are no longer alive, or those that are already expired and dead. However, hundreds of thousands of web domains expire everyday and these numbers seem to be too huge for any search engines to remove from the list. Thus, there is always a time lag of a week or so, before the expired domain names are removed from the directories.
However, there is still a gap of about five to six days before the entire list of expired domains disappear from the directory listings. Smart expired domain traders make it a point to buy expired domains, before they are deleted or removed from the search engine list. Once you buy listed expired domains and register them as soon as possible, you can have the liberty of accumulating very precious traffic and links owned and possessed by the previous owner.
However, you can conduct a search on the Google search engine by using a simple search query given as follows:
a) Just open the Google search engine bar
b) Type- "Auction Date" 01-07-2008 intitle: aaaaaaaaa site: whois.domaintools dotcom (here, aaaaa is the preferred keyword, while the date could be any date that you wish but it should preferably be about 15 days before today's date.
c) Choose any keyword you want and consult a keyword tracker web domain for better keywords.
d) Once you give a command for search, you can easily get a comprehensive list of expiring or expired domain names in the entire search engine directory.
Once you create list, you can sensitize it by using good domain software for short listing the best possible domain names. The list thus generated should provide you a basic idea of how your expired domain names look and appear.
John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is the owner of the path breaking web site called http://www.expireddomainsecret.com which provides complete and up-to-date information on expired domains and their eternal secrets.
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Keywords in Domain Names - The Catalyst of SEO Process
By Hayi Mansoor
Having keywords in domain names plays the same role as a catalyst would do in a chemical reaction. In modern SEO, just the keywords in domain names is not all about the SEO, though. It merely means that if you have keywords in a domain name, the SEO process happens at much faster rate than under normal circumstances. You still need to strictly follow the other routine SEO practices in order to get the maximum out of the SEO process. If it were just the domain names that matter then having a successful SEO simply would have meant choosing the keyword rich domain name then spammers would have had a great time.
It is very tricky to design a site that both search engines and customers will like. In addition to this, choosing the right domain name for the website name is no exception.
Searchenginewatch.com, searchengineguide.com, seochat.com, seo-usa.org, seo-london.com, seo.com, are good search engine friendly domain name which all have keyword rich domain names with great branding value. These all are also ranked on the first page of Google for their very competitive keywords selection.
Having said keywords in domain names work as a catalyst in the SEO process, their benefits are indirect. Here is a brief description of some of the major in-direct benefits:
i. SEO friendly Inbound Links
Links play an important role in SEO and having anchor text containing your keywords is what everyone wants. Domain names with keywords tend to create SEO friendly inbound links as many people link to your website through your domain name.
ii. Better Click Through Rate (CTR)
Keywords in your domain name gets you a better Click Through Rate (CTR) as when people conduct a search, Google tends to highlight the words found in the domain names which match the search query. So these domain names tend to build up the confidence of the searcher that they are on the right track, and thus give your site a better CTR.
iii. Instant and Clear Definition of Business
Another benefit of having a keyword rich domain is that it defines your business clearly. However while choosing keywords for your domain name, don't use too long domain names as it only hurts your SEO visibility and brand name. To me, most will be three words with two hyphens like SEO-consultant-specialist.com is an seo friendly domain name with good branding value but online-seo-consultant-specialist-expert.com looks like a spam.
iv. Search Engine's Favor
Search engines assume that sites having keywords in a domain name are more relevant, so they generally will put them on the top of a search result. So if you use keywords in your domain names, and follow other SEO techniques you will definitely gain an edge over other domains in search results.
Who Should not use Keyword Rich Domain Names
The domain names of existing companies are better off when the company's name is used in the domain name than a keyword describing it. Like Nike gets better traffic with a domain name with Nike. om, and not BestSportsShoes.com. This is obviously because people know and refer to these shoes more with Nike, than best sports shoes and tend to use the brand name when conducting searches. Same would be the case with other existing top brand websites.
Hyphenated Vs. Underscored Domain Names
It is always better to register both the hyphenated and unhyphenated versions of domain names to safeguard brand. If only one version is registered, competitors may grab the other version and get it registered in their name. It is generally better to use hyphens instead of underscores for separating words in URLs. This is not only due to the fact that Google recommends it but also the underscores are hard to read as the URLs are mostly underlined.
For further information, please visit SEO Consultant Specialist's Website
Abdul Hayi Mansoor
SEO Specialist and Article Marketer
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Hayi_Mansoor
http://EzineArticles.com/?Keywords-in-Domain-Names---The-Catalyst-of-SEO-Process&id=1703897
Having keywords in domain names plays the same role as a catalyst would do in a chemical reaction. In modern SEO, just the keywords in domain names is not all about the SEO, though. It merely means that if you have keywords in a domain name, the SEO process happens at much faster rate than under normal circumstances. You still need to strictly follow the other routine SEO practices in order to get the maximum out of the SEO process. If it were just the domain names that matter then having a successful SEO simply would have meant choosing the keyword rich domain name then spammers would have had a great time.
It is very tricky to design a site that both search engines and customers will like. In addition to this, choosing the right domain name for the website name is no exception.
Searchenginewatch.com, searchengineguide.com, seochat.com, seo-usa.org, seo-london.com, seo.com, are good search engine friendly domain name which all have keyword rich domain names with great branding value. These all are also ranked on the first page of Google for their very competitive keywords selection.
Having said keywords in domain names work as a catalyst in the SEO process, their benefits are indirect. Here is a brief description of some of the major in-direct benefits:
i. SEO friendly Inbound Links
Links play an important role in SEO and having anchor text containing your keywords is what everyone wants. Domain names with keywords tend to create SEO friendly inbound links as many people link to your website through your domain name.
ii. Better Click Through Rate (CTR)
Keywords in your domain name gets you a better Click Through Rate (CTR) as when people conduct a search, Google tends to highlight the words found in the domain names which match the search query. So these domain names tend to build up the confidence of the searcher that they are on the right track, and thus give your site a better CTR.
iii. Instant and Clear Definition of Business
Another benefit of having a keyword rich domain is that it defines your business clearly. However while choosing keywords for your domain name, don't use too long domain names as it only hurts your SEO visibility and brand name. To me, most will be three words with two hyphens like SEO-consultant-specialist.com is an seo friendly domain name with good branding value but online-seo-consultant-specialist-expert.com looks like a spam.
iv. Search Engine's Favor
Search engines assume that sites having keywords in a domain name are more relevant, so they generally will put them on the top of a search result. So if you use keywords in your domain names, and follow other SEO techniques you will definitely gain an edge over other domains in search results.
Who Should not use Keyword Rich Domain Names
The domain names of existing companies are better off when the company's name is used in the domain name than a keyword describing it. Like Nike gets better traffic with a domain name with Nike. om, and not BestSportsShoes.com. This is obviously because people know and refer to these shoes more with Nike, than best sports shoes and tend to use the brand name when conducting searches. Same would be the case with other existing top brand websites.
Hyphenated Vs. Underscored Domain Names
It is always better to register both the hyphenated and unhyphenated versions of domain names to safeguard brand. If only one version is registered, competitors may grab the other version and get it registered in their name. It is generally better to use hyphens instead of underscores for separating words in URLs. This is not only due to the fact that Google recommends it but also the underscores are hard to read as the URLs are mostly underlined.
For further information, please visit SEO Consultant Specialist's Website
Abdul Hayi Mansoor
SEO Specialist and Article Marketer
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Hayi_Mansoor
http://EzineArticles.com/?Keywords-in-Domain-Names---The-Catalyst-of-SEO-Process&id=1703897
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