Effective SEO Starts With Choosing The Right Domain Name

by Bruce Hoover

Domain names are as important to websites as attractive covers are to books. An interesting domain name never fails to attract web surfers to click through and check out. If you think that putting all your innovativeness into the domain name will make it better, you are mistaken. Why does this happen? The answer lies in the keyword. If your domain name is innovative but not search engine optimized with keywords, the search engines will not be able to index it. In other words, your domain name must be appealing as well as crafted for the search engines. Read this article to understand how both these can be achieved.

You will have to start by searching a keyword that is good for the search engines and also can be a part of your domain name. Use a keyword analyzer to get this done. Look for them on the search engines. Use a sample keyword into this tool that describes your site. The analyzer will now give you many different alternatives for the keyword you inserted. Choose those keywords from this list that describe more about what your website is about. If the domain keywords are specific, there are few chances that other webmasters will use them. So that’s better for search engine optimization. After this, you can begin looking for the domain name you will keep.

The domain name service itself will probably tell you whether you can get a specific domain name or not. If not obtainable, you will at least get some recommendations. The best way to use this tool is to enter the keyword you have selected. You will get other recommendations if this particular keyword is not available to use as the domain name. Think favorably about the domain names that have the keyword and end with .com. If not, use your creativity. Just putting in some filler words or numbers will allow you to retain your keyword.

Most people use ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ for such filtering purposes in their domain names. Search engines will overlook such words. Therefore, your domain name gets optimized and also remains better in the visitors’ memories. Use numbers at the end of the phrase. Any number like 80 or anything else will do. If you get everything but the .com, this is what you must do.

With a very popular keyword, it does not matter if your extension is .com or something else. You may think of extensions such as .org, .biz and .net. Another trick is to use a state or country extension in the domain name. Consider this if you do not lay more stock with the difference between worldwide or local marketing. It is much better for your business if you are number 5 in the Italian version of Google than if you are number 500 in America’s version of Google. It is not complicated to have a domain name that serves well for your visitors as well as for the search engines.

Summary

Only 10% of the success of your domain name depends on your intelligence. The rest depends on the keyword analyzer tool. The last straw, when nothing else works, is to resort to the extensions.

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