posted by rdnadmin on Nov 16
The importance of domain names to websites is akin to a business address for your place of business . If the domain names that you have chosen are not at least memorable, then potential customers will have problems remembering your websites.
Moreover, if your domain does not accurately express what your website represents or what your web business is about, potential customers may then not be motivated or intrigued enough to visit your website. Nevertheless, unrestrained creative design applied toward composing your domain names is not necessarily a good approach either.
If you are wondering why, the reason is that domain names that are creatively structured word-wise, may still not be selected for the relevant high demand keywords. This means that the search engines may not necessarily index your website correctly, or that the search engine listing may not be ranked highly and put you on the the first few pages of the search engine result pages or SERPS.
The correct way to pick and name domain names is to make your domain names easy to remember, have high demand and low supply keywords included in the domain name, thereby making the domain better optimized for the search engine bots when they visit.
One of the more basic steps is to research your niche and try to uncover a high demand but low supply keyword that can be used to compose your domain name. There are a number of keyword research software or keyword tools that can help you find those domain names. Some of these keyword tools are pretty easy to use and may cost you nothing more than some time to complete your research. Once you discover one or more suitable keywords, choose one that can best convey what your website is about or represents the. Some of these keyword tools can give you alternatives and variations to your original keyword so you will have more choices for your domain names.. The key point to note is to have the
Try to choose relevant keywords that are comatible with your website business or the purpose of your website. This approach toward choosing domain names will benefit your website because the search engines tend to rate your website more favorable if the keywords are specific and relevant in website’s your domain name.
Keeping these simple guidelines in mind, it will be quite easy for your to choose any of your domain names for any business that you might want to set up online. Almost all domain name registration companies will have a tool or feature that will allow you to see if the domain names that you want are available for registration. If the domain names that you want have been taken, the domain registrar’s websites often will have a smart feature to list out similar or related domain names that are availalbe. Take the time to go through these suggestions at the registrar’s website and sometimes, you can add one letter in front or behind the unavailalble domain name to compose a suitable domain name for your website. People often prefer domain names that end in .com and it may beneficial for you to follow this if you are setting up a business website. If your website is not business related, it can end in .net, .org, .info or any of the other available extensions. Just be creative in composing your domain name.
Did you know that by being creative, you can easily add short “filler” words, numbers or phrases to compose a suitable name for your domain and still be able to have your preferred keyword. Some examples of these fillers could be the simple adding of ‘a,’ ‘an’ or ‘the.’ Some people add “best”, “discount” or other words but try not to make the domain names too long when adding words to the ideal keyword to compose your domain name. These filler words actually allow you to use your preferred keyword in your domain name and therefore get listed in the search engine results. The filler words can even help you make your domain memorable or better represent your business. Numbers can also be used as filler words in your domain name composition.
After having tried these tricks with using fillers, it is possible that you could still not get any .com domain names. Depending on your website concept, you can still consider using domain name extensions that are not as common. These days, not only are the .net, .biz, and .org extensions get used a lot, many folks are using .tv, .info, .asia, .us and many others and have reported success with their websites. Keep in mind that it is the popular keyword that helps the search engines find and list your website. Another tip is that you can consider using country or state-based domain name extensions if they can be appropriate or suitable for your business and marketing. Consider that it might be better to be listed as the number 1 search engine result in U.K; such as google.co.uk 1 in than to be number 38800 or worse in Google U.S.A. i.e. google.com.
Lastly, it is not difficult to select and compose domain names that are both human friendly and search engine friendly. Search engine friendly domain names are obviously better optimized for the search engines. Use the keyword analysis tools or keyword softwares as much as you can and you have a great chance of finding those preferred keyword-rich domain names. Creatively using fillers in the domain name can also help you secure that domain name and some webmasters use dashes between keywords and have achieved great results. So why not start today and get that .com domain name or domain names the less conventional extensions.
