Do You Need Help on Choosing the Right Domain Names?

By Noah Chapman

Choosing the right domain names for your website are like how book covers are to novels. It should be creative and interesting enough for visitors to have desire to enter them in their browsers.

Although you want to be creative, you don't want to go over board. Why is this so? Excessive creativity may be appealing to you, but may not be appealing to the search engine bots. They won't be able to index it in search engine listings unless a specific keyword is found. When choosing domain names you want it to be catchy to the audience as well as being search engine friendly.

This article will inform you on how you can achieve both objectives. First, you will need to find a search engine friendly keyword that can be integrated into your domain name. You can use keyword analyzer to find latest popular keyword. These can be found fairly easily with a basic search engine query.

Using the keyword analyzer, simply enter one keyword or phrase that best explains your website. Then choose one of the keyword results that best describes the purpose of your website. By doing so, your domain name will become search engine optimized and be attractive to search engine bots.

Now you are ready to start selecting your domain name. Most domain name companies will inform you on whether the domain name you've chosen is available or not. It will also give you a list of suggested domain names if your domain name is not available. You should take this to consideration.

If your keyword as a domain name is not available, consider the suggestions the domain name company gives. If the main keyword is still included in these suggestions and it ends with .com, consider it. Otherwise, you will have to be more creative.

Here's how you can get more creative yet search engine optimized: You can use 'filler' words, numbers or phrases within your domain name and still include your selected keyword. Fillers such as 'a,''an' or 'the' could be used as well as placing number fillers at the end of a phrase.

Search engines tend to not look at these words, so you still have a good shot at getting indexed while having a domain name that is attractive.

But what if you couldn't get .com using your specific keyword? Well, sometimes it is better to stick with lesser-used extension because the keyword is just so popular. Extensions that still get noticed include .net, .biz and .org.

You could also consider using country ot state-based extensions if you don't mind international or local-based marketing. It is better to rank number one in France's version of google than to be number 200 or worse in America's version of Google.

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