Thursday, August 28, 2008

Effective SEO Starts With Choosing The Right Domain Name

By Bruce Hoover


The importance of a good domain name to a website cannot be undermined. An interesting domain name never fails to attract web surfers to click through and check out. If you think finding a good domain name is difficult task, you are wrong! Do you know where you can get a fantastic domain name easily without too much effort? A good keyword makes a good domain name,. It is very important to craft your domain name using suitable keywords. This is your lucky day-this article will teach you how it is done easily!

Start by researching for a search engine optimized keyword that can be a part of your domain name. A keyword analyzer is the tool that can help you do this. You will able to find such tools by searching on popular Internet engines. Think of a sample keyword that tells about what your site is and enter it into the tool. The analyzer tool will display several options for this sample keyword. Choose those keywords from this list that describe more about what your website is about. You're site is better search engine optimized if you use a long tail keyword because there will be fewer webmasters who will choose them. Now, you can begin thinking about your real domain name.

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.

Three interesting fillers you can use are 'a', 'an' and 'the'. You get a good domain name, and you also get it indexed because the search engines will simply ignore such buffer words. Use numbers at the end of the phrase. Any number like 80 or anything else will do. Below we describe what you must do if you get all else but not the .com suffix.

You may opt for an extension other than .com, especially in the cause of very popular keywords. Other workable solutions are .biz, .net and .org. One more tactic is to use country or state specific extensions. This works if international or local marketing makes no difference to you. You can well understand that it is much wiser to be on the first page in the Indian Google than to be on the 86th page in the American Google! It is not complicated to have a domain name that serves well for your visitors as well as for the search engines.

In Closing

The keyword tool will influence 90% of the success of your domain name; the rest will depend on how innovative and creative you are. If nothing else helps you, the extensions surely will.

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