Monday, March 16, 2009

Tips to Pick the Right Domain Name

You got a great website for selling your product/service. Now you need a domain name that goes with it.
An easy to remember domain, that follows one of the below rules will help you and your customers.
  1. your company name
  2. your product name
  3. benefits from your product/service
  4. action taken by your users
There are billions of websites, with thousands coming everyday. If you think of a name and most probably they might have already taken by someone. If you are ready to pay for
good domain, then you can do that. But if you are not, then following tips will help you save lot of time.
1. Build keyword list
  First important step in picking the domain name is to find the keywords related to your business.
  Google keyword analyzer, will come handy, in building keywords, which you can use later to form a domain name. When you enter your product related keywords to the keyword analyzer or your competitor website, it will analyze and give you a list of keyword suggestions. Pick the ones that has most search volume, not the ones you like most. There are many other tools to help you build the keyword list.
  Google Sets is another tool that will give predict other keywords based on the specified keywords.
  Keywords can be names, verbs, nouns, action, benefits, mean users etc. When you have the list of keywords ready, go to next step

2. Check Domain Availability
  Domain name tools will help you to find out if a domain name is available. Some tools are more flexible, meaning, they even combine the words specified by you and check their availability. One such tool is www.bustaname.com, in which you can specify multiple keywords and it will mix and match the words and will spit out the available combination's. This will be a huge time saver. The best feature is for each word added, you can view and add the similar words.

3. Register Domain Name
  When you found the domain, that suits your purpose, you can register it with most hosting providers. godaddy and networksolutions are examples of web hosting provider, where you can register your domain.

I hope this article will help you to find your dream domain.
Good luck

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