Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Meanings Of Domain Names

By thulas


Without a domain name, a website becomes as lackluster as a book without a beautiful cover. A catchy domain name is imperative to compete successfully in the online environment. Finding a suitable and favorable domain name for your purpose is actually easy to do. What is the justification for this? Search engines look for specific keywords and then they index anything on the Internet. Make your keyword sound compelling and make it oriented for the search engines too. 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. You can find immense help with a keyword analyzer to achieve this. One place to get them is through the search engines. Enter a keyword in the analyzer tool that tells about the nature of your site. The keyword analyzer will give you many different versions for the single keyword you used. If there are some keywords that better describe your website from among these, choose them. So that's better for search engine optimization.

With this done, you can now begin hunting for your perfect domain name. The domain name service itself will probably tell you whether you can get a specific domain name or not. The domain name service will also suggest alternatives if the one you put in is not available. Put in your keyword first - this way you can better use this tool. The keyword may not be available to use as the domain name. com ending are good to use. If this is not available, be more ingenious.

Just putting in some filler words or numbers will allow you to retain your keyword. One ruse is to put the words 'a', 'an' or 'the' as fillers. So, they will index your site and you will have a very appealing domain name too. Using numbers like 12, 9 or anything else at the end of the phrase also works.

If you get everything but the .com, this is what you must do. In some cases, another extension does not matter, especially if the keyword is immensely popular. 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. For example, it is better to be number 1 in the Austrian Google than number 400 or something in American Google!

You don't need to know rocket science in order to design a domain name that's suited for the search engine purposes as well as for the users. The rest is governed by the analyzer tool. When you find nothing helps you in getting the domain name of your choice, changing the extension always works.

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