September 2, 2009
Tips On Selecting Your Domain Name
Choosing a domain name for your Internet marketing business is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Whether you’re creating a flagship blog for your business or registering a domain for your niche site, you need to take some time to find the right domain. Look at these following guidelines to help you find an ideal domain name for your site.
1. Your Purpose
First you’ll need to figure out the purpose of your website. Is it to establish yourself in a niche? If so, you’ll need to do some keyword research to figure out which phrases would naturally attract traffic. Are you buying a domain to sell a product? If so, your product name or a variation of the product name should be your domain name. Ideally, your website’s domain should either describe what the website is about (Membernaire.com is about building membership sites) or it should include keywords related to your domain (FatLossHelp.com is about losing weight, and it includes a popular keyword phrase). Determining the purpose of you website will help you decide what phrases to use.
2. You must have a Presence
Having a precise phrase in a domain name is very crucial to other website owners. But there are some who are able to use another similar phrase. You can insert hyphens, prefixes or suffixes to your domain name if the exact phrase that you want is already taken by other website owners. In that way you can still use the phrase that you want. As a general rule, you should only use two hyphens in a your domain name.
3. Your Potential
In choosing the right domain name for your business, you must be able to answer these questions. Are you buying a domain name to make a niche mini site that will serve as a feeder site to your sales page? Do you want to create an authority site in your niche? How will your website grow in the coming days? A niche mini-site domain name can be a lot more detailed compared to an authority site. As an example, beginnersheirloomtomatotips.com is a very niche detailed domain while heirloomgrowing.com has sufficient margins for you to build an authority site. Your domain name choice must considered your growth expectation for your website.
4. Price
As long as you’re willing to spend money, you can get any domain name you want. In some cases, you’ll want to register an unused domain name. These can cost from $7 to $12 depending on the company you’re registering with. But if you have a precise business name and want to stick in a domain that has been registered but not used, try to contact the domain owner. Search the contact information of the domain owner at Who ls directory and deal with them.
These are the things that you need to consider when selecting a precise domain name for your own website. Remember, you must cautiously think how your domain name will be used before you get one.
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