How To Choose A Domain Name?

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Hello Warriors,
The following is what I did so far.
Identified my interests and asked myself "Will I continue do this even if I am not paid a single penny?"
I answered that with an "Yes!"
Then, I chose just one niche to focus on first.
Identified by keywords research that there is a hungry audience looking to find solutions to their problems and ready to pay for it
The searches for the exact key words are around 20 to 60 per day.
I hope that is okay to focus for a beginner.
I have around 10 to 27 keywords ranging from 2 words to 7 words, where advertisers willing to pay anywhere between 65 cents to 21 USD.
I am working on writing on articles/blog posts for at least 2 to 4 keywords.
Now, the first confusion is, should I go with blog website, landing page only website, or both?
The second confusion is whether to get a domain name with keywords in it, anywhere between 2 to 5 keywords or a generic website like "nichetipsdot.com"?

If I go with landing page style, how long the copy should be?

Please advise


P.S. By the by, how to post with actually the quotes and not the word &quot?
#"domain name" #"how to" #"landing page" #choose #domain #keywords
  • Profile picture of the author Kendrickk
    Originally Posted by coconutisa View Post

    Hello Warriors,
    The following is what I did so far.
    Identified my interests and asked myself "Will I continue do this even if I am not paid a single penny?"
    I answered that with an "Yes!"
    Then, I chose just one niche to focus on first.
    Identified by keywords research that there is a hungry audience looking to find solutions to their problems and ready to pay for it
    The searches for the exact key words are around 20 to 60 per day.
    I hope that is okay to focus for a beginner.
    I have around 10 to 27 keywords ranging from 2 words to 7 words, where advertisers willing to pay anywhere between 65 cents to 21 USD.
    I am working on writing on articles/blog posts for at least 2 to 4 keywords.
    Now, the first confusion is, should I go with blog website, landing page only website, or both?
    The second confusion is whether to get a domain name with keywords in it, anywhere between 2 to 5 keywords or a generic website like "nichetipsdot.com"?

    If I go with landing page style, how long the copy should be?

    Please advise


    P.S. By the by, how to post with actually the quotes and not the word &quot?
    Hello,

    I would like to assist you as much as I can! You are on the right track with this and seem to know how you are going to do this. For the keyword part I would definitely choose keywords that have at least 100 search a month and you are on the right track with that as well. You also have your keywords prepared and ready to write. I see you are ready and should take action now!

    Although I would go with a blog website. The reason begin is when someone is looking for you online they can find you through that. Also a landing page can be any website on your site. As far as the website domain, it should be relevant to the keywords and the length can be short but specify, but that is up to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author sanhal
    Last year Matt Cutts announced that Google is going after "low quality" exact match domains to ensure they do not rank well in the Google search results.

    Google is recognizing that low quality websites shouldn’t rank highly just because of their domain name.

    What is your aim for starting your site? Probably best to satrt with a blog and build a list from it. You could send them to an optin page ( landing page) from the blog.

    Good luck

    Sandy
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by sanhal View Post

      Last year Matt Cutts announced that Google is going after "low quality" exact match domains to ensure they do not rank well in the Google search results.
      Not so much "to ensure that they don't rank well", Sandy. Google has no problem at all with EMD's ranking well, and indeed we can all see from their SERP's that huge numbers of them regularly occupy top positions. Their intention was (and is) "to ensure that they don't rank artificially well just because of their keywords in their names.

      A significantly different proposition, I think you'll appreciate? One implies that they might be penalized (this isn't true at all); the other (now the status quo) simply that they no longer have some/most of the artificial advantage they used to have just because of their url's.

      It's a widely misunderstood subject. Many Webmasters of thin, poor-quality EMD sites mistakenly felt, when their ratings took a tumble, that they'd been "penalized". They hadn't. They'd simply ceased to enjoy an artificial advantage formerly held. There's nothing wrong with or negative about EMD's at all (I'm not implying you said there is, just clarifying for others!). They still have potential advantages, as experts such as Gene Pimentel have so consistently been saying, here.

      Originally Posted by coconutisa View Post

      Then, I chose just one niche to focus on first.
      Identified by keywords research that there is a hungry audience looking to find solutions to their problems and ready to pay for it
      The searches for the exact key words are around 20 to 60 per day.
      I hope that is okay to focus for a beginner.
      I'd strongly advise a beginner not normally to select his domain-name primarily according to any SEO parameters at all.

      Search engines are (for many, many reasons) among the worst places to try to find that hungry audience looking for a solution to a problem. A significant proportion of the people you'll find that way will already be on many of your competitors' lists anyway, and they'll be something of a struggle for a beginner to promote/sell to.
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  • Profile picture of the author ejullya
    Keep you domain name short if you can, 1-3 words. Get .com if you can and don't use dashes in between the words.

    If you identified a "hungry niche" start with a blog where you can provide more info, capture emails and build relationship with your readers. Then develop a landing page that you can market separately or on your blog.

    You asked if exact searches of 20-60 per day is enough. 20 is pretty low because generally if you want to get all the searches you need to rank pretty high. How is the competition? If there is competition for those keywords you may simply not get any traffic at all.

    If you will develop a well structured, informative blog around some of the keywords you chose, eventually the traffic will start coming.

    With respect to the "quote problem" you are having just put the quote marks around your words right in the editor. I don't have any problem doing just that. Did you copy your text from some other editor, perhaps?
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Here is my simple process.

    1. Look around with Google's Keyword Tool a bit.

    2. Find a 2 word .com

    3. Make sure it something generic. Like CPAMarketingForum, AffiliateForum, ... I like thing that can have a brand built around them like WarriorForum.

    Seems to stick a little better for me.
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    • Profile picture of the author coconutisa
      sanhal,<br/> thank you for your warning, but I am neither technically savvy nor interested to throw content to please google.<br/><br/>My goal is to eventually make my site an authority site in the niche I am passionate about<br/><br/>Much obliged for your input.<br/><br/>
      ejulla,<br/><br/>Thanks for your suggestions, well noted.<br/><br/>
      Alexa Smith,<br/><br/>My goal is to start slowly, as I am doing this only part time anyway and build into a decent authority blog or site so and only write for human readers, anyway, I don't know anything about SEO now.<br/><br/>Now, based on your answer, can you enlighten me as to what other sources are available to me other than writing blog posts or articles on my site so that people find me on google?<br/><br/>How else the hungry audience in my niche find me, are you saying I should focus on offline too?<br/><br/>Much obliged for your response.<br/><br/>
      Greedy,<br/><br/>Based on your answer, if I search google keyword tool and find a 2 word domain that defines and/or in tune with my goal/vision, that is the best way to go even if it has just one keyword?<br/><br/>Thanks<br/><br/>
      Actually, I am typing right here on the post reply button and I thought the <br/> make it go to the next line, but it seems not correct, what am I doing wrong? Obviously, you can make out I am totally new to IM/web design!!
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by coconutisa View Post

        what am I doing wrong?
        Unnecessarily using HTML-codes, I think? The forum does its own line-spacing, like a word-processor does. If you want an extra carriage return, you just need to press the carriage return key.

        Originally Posted by coconutisa View Post

        can you enlighten me as to what other sources are available to me other than writing blog posts or articles on my site so that people find me on google?
        Writing blog-posts/articles on other people's sites (and in their ezines/newsletters/wherever).

        Using your content to market your business isn't about just putting it on your own site and waiting for people to find it via Google. You may eventually get some visitors that way. Whether you'll ever get any income from them is another matter altogether. You may need (after publishing your content on your site first and having it indexed there) to have it re-published as widely as possible in front of the targeted traffic you want to attract. This is called "article marketing" and here's a one-post overview of "how it works".

        Of course, that's only one way, and for people who want to "use content to build their businesses". There are countless other traffic sources, all of them discussed here in a myriad of threads. Examples are PPC advertising, forum marketing, social media marketing, solo email ads, etc. etc. etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author coconutisa
    Thank you Alexa, now I get it. Got to go now, I am here at an Apple store and seeing if any response to my questions.

    Much obliged.
    Regards,
    Isa.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by coconutisa View Post

      I am here at an Apple store
      Over here we call them cider orchards, I think.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan Joseph
    The best way that I've found on buying a domain name is to either:

    a) Buy a high PR (3-4) domain name in your desired niche already created, (in godaddy there are tons for sale).

    b) Create a domain based on a top keyword in Google keyword checker, with niche relevance, and moderate competition.

    Note: if you choose option "b", then be sure purchase the domain for 2-3 years at the checkout - as Google likes this, (they see it as a long-term serious commitment, instead of a spammer).
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    "Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone." -- Deepak Chopra

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  • For my last few domains, I've gone to name.com and used there "traffic score" search. It's great for getting creative ideas since you can search for a phrase and any old domains will show up with that phrase in it.

    The Traveler.
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